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One of the U.S.'s foremost "gay conversion therapy" groups announced it is closing up shop on Thursday.

Being a pretty pooch won't cut it as a contestant at the 2013 "World's Ugliest Dog" contest on Monday, held annually at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif.

NASA has released a new panoramic image of Mars that offers a billion-pixel view of one part of the red planet.

Very few politicians are openly gay and there has never been an openly homosexual US president.

Folk singer Jack Johnson announced his "From Here To Now To You" U.S., Canada and European tour dates for 2013 this week.

Walter Lee Williams, a former USC professor, was arrested in Mexico on child sex charges, mere hours after he was added to the FBI Most Wanted Fugitive list.

Google wants a gag order lifted, arguing it has a First Amendment right to tell the public the extent of its participation in the PRISM surveillance program.

The SAFE Act is also known, would allow state and local officials to enforce federal immigration laws.

Earth will be captured in a photo on July 19, taken from Saturn’s neighborhood, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

Miley Cyrus said alcohol is worse than weed and breifly talked about Liam Hemsworth in an interview with Rolling Stone.

The House passed a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a symbolic gift to conservatives that has zero chance of becoming law.

The nonpartisan entity says the Senate's "Gang of Eight's" immigration reform bill would save billions and reduce the deficit.

Phone companies in state jails give kickbacks to prisons and charge insane prices.

Yahoo said it received 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from U.S. agencies from Dec. 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013.

Justin Bieber has been cleared in an alleged hit-and-run incident late Monday night.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, who died this month at age 53 while on death row for a mid-1980s reign of terror in the Los Angeles area, succumbed to complications of cancer.

Bieber allegedly drove his white Ferrari into a photographer while leaving the Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard on Monday night.

The millionaire funnyman has long been a car enthusiast. Here are his mini reviews of 11 driving machines.

NASA has selected a new group of eight potential astronauts, half of which are women, the space agency announced on Monday.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West supposedly named their baby girl a "K" name.

The Bucks guard could join forces with Dwight Howard next season.