Joseph Orovic

Life has become other-worldly for NASA flight director David Oh?s family, after switching their biological clocks to ?Mars time.? The change is protocol for a cadre of scientists who spend the first three months of every Martian mission living longer days, but it?s unusual for an entire family to jump along.

A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed a member of NATO's military coalition before being shot himself, the international alliance said. The attack is the latest in a string of incidents that have seen local Afghan forces turn against NATO allies fighting alongside them.

Spies from Germany and the U.K. have been engaging in covert operations to help Syria?s rebel forces topple President Bashar al-Assad?s regime, according to reports from British and German press, just as U.N. observers end a failed mission to monitor the violence.

Paul Ryan and Medicare again dominated the Sunday morning talk circuit this week.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will give a live statement from “in front of the Ecuadorian embassy” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, the Web site announced via Twitter. The announcement caused a bit of confusion as to whether Assange can actually step out into public without getting arrested. There has yet to be any clarification.

Sir Paul McCartney has thrown his substantial artistic credibility behind Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot, joining a long list of musicians vocally supporting the band as it stands trial for staging an anti-Putin protest in Moscow.

About two-thirds of U.S. teens and young adults have had oral sex mistakenly thinking it’s a safer alternative to regular intercourse, according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hank The Cat released a new ad as part of his ongoing campaign for an open Virginia Senate seat, and it's message is clear: the humans don't deserve the job.

Shia LeBeouf rips the big-budget blockbuster movie system a new one in an Interview with The Hollywood Reporter magazine, lambasting studios that “stick a finger up your a-- and chase you around for five months.”

Mississippi is the most obese state in America, with an obesity rate of 34.4 percent, according to Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011." The Magnolia State is one of a dozen states that have an obesity rate above one-third its population.

A young Scrabble player was booted from the board game’s national championship tournament in Orlando, Fla., after getting caught hiding blank letters -- essentially cheating.

Chris Christie will deliver the keynote address in two weeks at the Republican National Convention. Many consider the primo speaking a launching point into national prominence. But Christie already garnered attention. So why did the Republican National Committee pick him? The answer may lie in the 2004 Democratic National Convention. And the results may not bode well for Mitt Romney.

Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan Magazine's legendary editor for over three decades, died this morning at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center at the age of 90, according to a release by Hearst Corporation, which owns the women's magazine she helped revolutionize.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, USS Porter, collided with a Japanese-owned and Panamanian-flagged bulk-oil tanker, M/V Otowasan, on Sunday at 1 a.m. local time just outside the strategically important Strait of Hormuz between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, according to the U.S. 5th Fleet.

Evangelist Billy Graham was admitted to a North Carolina hospital with bronchitis, a spokesman for the 93-year-old told said. Mission Hospital and spokesman Larry Ross said Graham was “alert and in good spirits.” He was kept overnight to evaluate and treat a respiratory infection believed to be bronchitis.

Sunday morning’s talking heads political programming became flooded with the 2012 election topic du jour, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his Vice Presidential candidate. All agreed the selection signaled the 2012 election will be a big-picture battle over the role of government in the populace’s life.

A rare dime from 1873 sold for $1.6 million to an anonymous bidder at an auction in Philadelphia.

Swine flu is making a comeback as a new strain of the virus has begun spreading, with more than 100 cases reported this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The surprising culprit? State and county fairs. And doctors warn its now much easier to transmit among humans.

JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon had a psychotic episode in jail after being arrested for disrupting a cross-country flight by exiting the cockpit and ranting about religion and terrorism. The cause of his psychosis may sound familiar to many pilots: lack of sleep.

Next time something feels wrong about your Alaska Airlines flight, look out the window. The maintenance crew may have left a note acknowledging your concern. It’s what led one passenger of the Seattle-based airline to post a photo on Reddit of what appears to be a chunk of a wing flap missing, with “We know about this,” followed by an arrow pointing to the missing section.

The Amish are one of the fast-growing religious groups in North America though you would be hard pressed to notice, according to a study released by Ohio State University on July 27.

Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student whom Rush Limbaugh notoriously labeled a "slut," will introduce President Barack Obama at a rally in Denver on Wednesday, offering further proof that the incumbent's campaign will use women's rights as a key issue in the 2012 presidential election.

John Steinbeck gave the literary world a lovable simpleton in Lennie Small, the fulcrum of the Nobel Prize winner’s classic 1937 novella “Of Mice and Men.” The character has been brought to the fore again, providing the baseline comparison that may send a mentally retarded convict named Marvin Wilson to his death Tuesday night.

George P. Bush, nephew of former president George W. Bush, will be deputy finance chairman of the Lone Star State’s Republican Party, becoming the latest in a long line of Texas politicos with the surname “Bush” to get a foothold in the GOP.

The Milton Hershey School has decided to allow an HIV-positive student to attend, after the Pennsylvania school initially rejected the teen’s application because of his illness.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked back earlier comments calling Sarah Palin’s pick as the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate “a mistake,” suggesting he was aiming his criticism at the process leading to her selection.

Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney engaged in arguably the most blatant "I'm a regular guy, just like you" campaign stunt. The "Best Pandering To Date" award of the 2012 season was won by the GOP's standard-bearer by using a rare day off from the trail to go shopping at his local hardware and grocery store in Wolfeboro, N.H.

Death row inmate Marvin Wilson’s attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, set for Tuesday, arguing the convict’s date with a lethal injection runs contrary to a 2002 ruling by the nation’s highest court banning the execution of mentally retarded prisoners. Texas’ counter? Wilson is wholly dissimilar to a fictional character created by novelist John Steinbeck.

The World’s Longest Yard Sale gave bargain hunters steals and deals on knick knacks and surprise treasures since for four days, with 690 miles of bargains that stretches down the U.S. 127 highway from Addison, Mich., to Gadsden, Ala.