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How the Brazilian went from Harvard student to billionaire -- via Facebook.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe will be Virginia’s next governor, and it only took one California billionaire to get him there.

A conservative group says it collected more than 600,000 signatures to repeal a California law aimed at protecting transgender students.

The firm that decides which companies are Shariah-compliant has OK'd Twitter and opened the door for Islamic investment.

Republicans maintain there is little time left this year, but advocates say the House can pass reform if it wants to.

It turns out that Incognito is a popular player in the Miami locker room and that he and Martin were good friends.

Grifols will fund the $1.68 billion purchase, which will help expand its diagnostics unit, with a loan, increasing the company’s debt.

The successful launch of the iPhone 5s has encouraged Apple to aggressively market its products in India's mobile-phone market.

Jimmy Kimmel’s “kill everyone in china” controversy is still making waves in communities across the U.S. Protests took place in 27 cities on Saturday, some calling for Kimmel’s show to be terminated from ABC.

Virtual kidnappings, in which fake “telemarketers” scam immigrants by telling them their relatives are being held hostage and that they must pay a ransom, have resulted in $500,000 in cons since 2007.

Two women dared to question VIT's discriminatory polices.

James "Whitey" Bulger was convicted of racketeering charges in August. He's scheduled to be sentenced next week.

A breakaway region of war-torn Somalia may be sitting on an oil bonanza. Among those looking to profit is the former boss of Gulf spill-era BP.

Bullfighting is illegal in the U.S. Teaching it is not. Animal-rights advocates want to change that.

If you’re looking for a good travel deal in 2014, the experts at Travelzoo have a few ideas.

Microbes that can survive harsh environments can hitchhike on spacecraft and contaminate off-world study sites, scientists said.

Coachella Valley High School has drawn the ire of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

An unusual-looking asteroid spotted by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope has six comet-like tails that resemble spokes on a wheel.

David Allen Soto went missing for a day last year. The schizophrenic, autistic teen disappeared again on Tuesday.

A judge has ordered Google to remove images of the former ex-president of the International Automobile Federation participating in a sadomasochistic orgy.

Twitter superstar Paulina Gretzky was reportedly unhurt when her sweater caught on fire at a Calif. bar.