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The Republican campaign against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is gaining steam ahead of an expected vote in the House of Representatives on a contempt of Congress count in the coming week.

Could Jeremy Lin and Kobe Bryant be teammates and not opponents next season?

The Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the road course at Sonoma gets underway just after 3 p.m. ET.

The competition was steep but Mugly, an 8-year-old Chinese Crested pooch was named the World's Ugliest Dog of 2012 at the annual contest held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in California Friday. View the slideshow to see photos of Mugly, World?s Ugliest Dog 2012, and past winners

The state has been barred from using capital punishment, although the court did not specifically rule that lethal injection or the death penalty is unconstitutional.

From immigration to same-sex marriage to education, U.S. President Barack Obama has been able to advance his agenda without Congress. Here's how.

Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge and her Kings of Leon frontman husband, Caleb Followill, welcomed baby girl Dixie Pearl on Thursday.

The attorney for James Whitey Bulger, the reputed Boston gangster who went on the lam for 16 years and was captured in California last year, wants to delay Bulger's upcoming trial for a year, enraging prosecutors.

More than a month after the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, investors ought to be on the alert for several bullish signs.

Popularly promoted remedies for jellyfish stings range from vinegar to meat tenderizer to urine. But less outlandish methods are more broadly effective, researchers found.

The Dating Game killer Rodney Alcala, already on death row in California for the murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges in New York, where he's a suspect in the killings of two women during the 1970s.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, seeking to battle Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, may have been stymied in its efforts to acquire Quest Software (Nasdaq: QFST).

Uruguay's government may begin selling marijuana if a bill proposing the tactic as a means to fight crime passes the legislature

Nadya Suleman, also known as Octomom, has released her first porn video, which is available to purchase online.

United States Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigned his post this week so that the agency isn't distracted by his recent hit-and-run incident.

A driver involved in a Southern California freeway brawl that was captured on video and went viral on the internet, said he regrets getting out of his and should have called the police. Jerry Patterson, a mortgage consultant and father of three said he suffered a concussion from the incident when three brutes had attacked him on the freeway, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head.

Route 66 hasn't been a real highway for almost three decades, but its hold on travelers' imaginations has revived motels, diners, souvenir shops, gas stations and other buildings along the iconic American byway.

Microsoft has struck again. Just a couple of days after launching the Surface tablet, the Redmond company took the wraps off the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, the Windows Phone 8, during a nightclub-themed media event in California Wednesday. With an exciting set of new features, the upcoming mobile OS has indeed managed to get the first impression of many onlookers already.

The up-and-coming rock group is just one of many bands attempting to make the

A House committee voted 23-17 to recommend citing Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt, escalating a standoff with the Obama administration and raising the possibility of an unprecedented contempt vote before the full House.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, has won a small victory in its battle against rival and supplier Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930).