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The suspect, who has been arrested for last Friday night's White House shooting,is suspected to be linked to Occupy Rally.

Ever since she can remember, Katherine Cummings knew she had been born into the wrong body.

Green tea, taken in a capsule or drunk in a cup, may shave a few points off bad cholesterol readings, according to a U.S. study involving more than a thousand people.

Police have discovered a major cross-border drug tunnel running to California from Mexico, and seized more than 17 tons (12,700 kilograms) of marijuana, U.S. and Mexican authorities said on Wednesday.

Initial jobless claims fell 5,000 to 388,000 for the week ended Nov. 12, a seven-month low, the U.S. Labor Department announced. If the downtrend continues, it would be, arguably, the best news the U.S. economy has registered this year.

The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.

General Electric, the biggest U.S. conglomerate, announced plans to hire as many as 400 more software engineers for a new global center in San Ramon, Calif. The company said it plans to spend as much as $1 billion on software development through 2015.

About 500 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from a New York park on Thursday to the stock exchange for a protest that the movement against economic inequality hoped would attract tens of thousands of people.

With Herman Cain's fall, Newt Gingrich is up to bat as the latest conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. Where does the former speaker of the House stand on the issues?

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Rambus, Zoll Medical, Sequenom, Hot Topic and Activision Blizzard. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: NetApp, Horsehead Holding, Echelon Corp, Conn's and GT Advanced Technologies.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old suspect in Friday's gunfire near White House was obsessed with American President Barak Obama, officials said.

San Francisco police raided part of the Occupy SF camp, removing 15 tents in front of Market Street and arresting 7 protesters on early Wednesday morning.

Google Inc unveiled a new online music store on Wednesday, in a move to challenge the dominance of market leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

The alleged UC Berkeley gunman who was shot and killed by campus police after brandishing a loaded gun on campus was student at the school.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) announced the company's plan to lay off 1,400 workers as part of the company's strategy to cut costs. This means that AMD would cut down at least 10% of the firm's global workforce.

Threats of money problems continue to hang over U.S. local governments, but most cities and counties will still be able to pay their debts in the near future, Janney Capital Markets said in a special report on Wednesday.

Katy Perry was a sexy cowgirl for her 27th Wild West Birthday Ho Down Throwdown birthday party on Nov. 11 in Los Angeles.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson took Breaking Dawn to London on Wednesday.

The woman who claimed teen singer Justin Bieber fathered a baby with her has dropped her paternity lawsuit, but Mariah Yeater's lawyer said on Wednesday she is pursuing her claim out of court.

Bieber is expected to take a private paternity test

Former Charles Manson follower Charles 'Tex' Watson is seeking parole for the fourteenth time this week. He has been in jail since 1971 for the Tate/LaBianca murders committed by the infamous 'Manson Family' in 1969.