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On Tuesday, the New York City Board of Health will hold a public hearing for supporters and opponents of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban on big sodas.

Google honored Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday by gracing its homepage with a drawing of aviator boarding a Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, which she used to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. The birthday celebration appears to be a bittersweet, appropriate commemoration on the heels of first female astronaut Sally Ride’s death on Monday.

As news of America's first woman on space Sally Ride's death spread like wildfire, many expressed their support to her grieving family members including Tam O'Shaughnessy her partner of 27 years.

Researchers found that cancer patients deemed to have high social attachment - meaning they had relationships that made them feel emotionally secure and closely connected to at least one other person - are more likely to survive than patients with lesser emotional bonds.

Frank Pierson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of such films as A Dog Day Afternoon and Cool Hand Luke, whose career stretched over 50 years in Hollywood, passed away today at the age of 87.

American astronaut Sally Ride passed away peacefully after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from the company she founded.

The meeting, which will take place at the PM's official residence of number 10 Downing Street, is fraught with potential political faux pas. After all, the sitting PM is not -- according to a Downing Street spokesman who spoke to the Telegraph -- supposed to meet candidates in elections in foreign countries.

Evita was also widely admired for her great beauty and fashion style.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has officially fined Penn State $60 million after a horrific scandal, involving retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molesting young boys, and administration members, like Joe Paterno, attempting to hide the sexual abuse.

Prominent journalist and political writer Alexander Cockburn died in Germany on Saturday, according to his friend Jeffery St. Clair. Cockburn, 71, had been battling cancer for a couple of years.

Reddish hair is linked to increased oxidative stress in boars, according to a new study.

Only months after Republicans attempted to defund Planned Parenthood, they are trying to do it again. The measure has no hope of passing, but it speaks to the GOP's unending radicalism on reproductive issues

Tom Davis, the beloved comedic writer from the early days of Saturday Night Live, died at the age of 59 on Thursday.

Scientists modeled the spread of radioactive material from the site of a nuclear accident in Japan and predict that health effects will be higher than some officials have acknowledged.

After the formal announcement Monday that Marissa Mayer had been elected the new CEO of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, the new executive announced she was pregnant.

In recent years, it's become possible to do emergency retrieval of sperm or eggs when somebody suddenly dies or becomes terminally ill.

Ladislav Scurko was a 2004 choice for the Philadelphia Flyers. On Monday he was given an eight year sentence in a Slovakian prison for stabbing a referee 14 times in the chest

The generation of British and American musicians who created the extraordinary generation of music and pop culture changes during the 1960s are now dying off.

Is Jesse going to find out Walt killed Brock? What did the opening sequence mean?

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), the world's second-biggest health care company, is expected to report higher second-quarter profit as strong performance of new drugs help mitigate drags from generic competition and strings of recalls.

After former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report on the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse revealed that Pennsylvania State University's once-legendary football coach Joe Paterno actively covered up the scandal, controversy has erupted over the status of Paterno's memorial statue at Penn State.