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Wholesale gasoline differentials jumped 9 cents on Wednesday after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a 1.78-million-barrel draw last week on West Coast gasoline stocks, traders said.

A giant South American rodent weighing at least 100 pounds (45 kgs) was spotted at a waste-water treatment facility in California recently before disappearing in the brush, according to a wildlife official.

Perry now has five number one hits from the same album.

Private rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has received a November 30 launch date from NASA for a cargo delivery to the International Space Station.

Russell Armstrong was dead for awhile before his body was discovered

Warren Buffett and Howard Schultz want to change the conversation about how to fix the United States' economic woes. But their solutions - more taxes on the rich and a boycott on political donations - risk falling on deaf ears among fellow business leaders.

The world's largest rodent, the South American capybara, has been spotted in a California wastewater treatment plant.

A giant South American capybara rodent weighing at least 100 pounds has been spotted at a California waste-water treatment facility, but has since disappeared in the brush, a wildlife official said on Tuesday, adding that it is apparently an escaped pet.

Researchers at UCLA have explained why Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface.

Apple is said to launch its next-generation iPhone 5 in early October, and the device could come as a widely compatible "world phone."

New research suggests that oxygen may have been present in Earth's ancient oceans millions of years before it was breathed into the atmosphere.

Walking above the ground or mid-air on a rope or wire is not so uncommon a sight. But slacklining is an exclusive mid-air adventure that involves a practice of walking on stretchable nylon rope.

Russell Armstrong, the alienated husband of the reality show "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong was found dead in an apparent suicide on Monday evening at a house in Los Angeles.

First Solar Inc (FSLR.O) on Tuesday said the head of its utility systems business, Jens Meyerhoff, is leaving the company, effective Sept. 30.

KCET, the former PBS station serving Southern and Central California, has entered a partnership with Eyetronics Media and Studios to produce and acquire new series, the companies announced Tuesday. Under the agreement, Eyetronics will provide up to $50 million in funding for the new programs, which will start production in the fall.

Star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach did not instruct anyone to copy analytic systems from his former employer, Trust Company of the West, but did devise a "defensive plan" in the event he would be fired, he testified in court.

Jeffrey Gundlach thought it was "quite likely" that DoubleLine Capital, the firm he launched after being fired by his former employer, was going to fail six months after its formation, he said in court.

PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel recently detailed his support for Seasteading Institute, an organization that promises floating libertarian nations on oil rig-type platforms.

Oxygen may have been present on Earth 300 million years before it was breathed into the atmosphere, scientists concluded from a new research.Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered evidence that small aerobic organisms could have evolved to survive on extremely low levels of the gas in undersea "oxygen oases," keeping a low profile in the oceans before its debut in the atmosphere.

Pastor is not a suspect

Jodie Foster is among thousands who in just 45-days raised $200,000 to re-open the Allen Telescope Array that search space for potential extraterrestrial life.