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June 14 marks the celebration of Flag Day in the United States. The annual holiday commemorates the adoption of the flag of the Unites States in 1777. The Second Continental Congress adoped the American continental army after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.

The Phillie Phanatic has been a staple to one of Pennsylvania's popular baseball team, the Phillies, since it was first introduced in 1978. However, now the large, green creature will find himself in the courtroom after Suzanne Peirce, of Abington, Pennsylvania, filed paperwork to sue the mascot after he tossed her into a pool.

The U.S. natural gas industry will create 1.5 million jobs by 2015, in large part because of the surge in production from unconventional shale beds that require hydraulic fracturing, according to an IHS study released Wednesday.

According to a panel of medical experts, the active chemical in used in spray-on tans -- dihydroxyacetone (DHA) -- can potentially damage one's DNA and cause genetic alterations. The experts reviewed 10 of the most current, agreeing that while more studies need to be done, what they already know is enough to warrant a warning.

Dozens of prison inmates at Virginia?s Red Onion super-max prison resorted to hunger striking in order to call attention to inhumane confinement conditions.

A Pennsylvania woman, who allegedly attacked a man with a stun-gun after she hit two pedestrians and fled the scene, was arrested after witnesses were able to report her easily recognizable vanity license plate, which said ZOMBIE, to police.

Pennsylvania prosecutors are considering criminal charges against former top Penn State University officials for allegedly concealing what they knew about the conduct of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, law enforcement sources said Monday.

This year's rapid-fire news cycle appears to never run short of gaffes, most recently President Obama's statement that the private sector is doing fine and the sound bite in which Mitt Romney seems to say he wishes there were less firefighters, teachers and police officers protecting and serving our country.

Opening statements in the Jerry Sandusky trial got under way on Monday. The former Penn State assistant football coach who is being charged with 52 counts of child sex abuse, was reportedly described to jurors as a serial predator and a predatory pedophile, who used fear and shame to keep his victims silent.

Veterinary medicine researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have produced the first set of evidence-based guidelines for reviving dogs and cats with stopped hearts.

Mitt Romney?s experience as governor of Massachusetts helped him best a large GOP field in a wild 2012 nomination process to become the Republican Party?s presidential nominee-designate. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding elected office in the world?

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday continued to urge Congress to pass legislation he said would add more jobs for teachers as Republicans and Democrats bickered over whether expanding the public sector would strengthen the economy.

Are book lovers in Latin America just as thrilled with Jane Austen's works as so many readers are in other parts of the world? That's what professor and Austen enthusiast Amy Elizabeth Smith wanted to find out. Which Jane Austen novel is your favorite?

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin spoke out on Friday about why she chose to resign from the Miss Universe Organization after competing in the 2012 Miss USA competition. An injustice has been done, she told The TODAY Show host Ann Curry. However, Donald Trump is not taking her allegations lying down. The Miss Universe Organization co-owner plans to move ahead with a defamation lawsuit.

Donald Trump says that he plans to sue Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, who resigned from the Miss Universe Organization on Tuesday after alleging that the 2012 Miss USA contest was rigged.

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, a 27-year-old who hopes to earn a Doctorate in Theology, announced her resignation from the Miss Universe Organization on Tuesday night, two nights after Miss Rhode Island, Olivia Culpo, was crowned Miss USA. Monnin claims that the pageant was rigged.

One more U.S. state is joining the ranks of those considering opening their doors to fracking, the controversial drilling technique that has brought jobs and revenue across the U.S. while being accused of being environmentally damaging. Kansas is, like North Carolina and New York, debating whether to say yes to oil and gas companies that want to drill in the state.

Citing lax laws and concerns about their water supply, farmers in Australia are pressuring lawmakers to impose a moratorium on the controversial drilling technique known as fracking.

Nascar has suspended Kurt Busch for his most recent outburst towards a field reporter after a June 2 Nationwide Series race at Pocono. The controversial 2004 Sprint Cup champion had already been on probation before he went on to verbally attack a field reporter because of questions asked regarding a race incident between Busch and fellow driver Justin Allgaier.

The North Carolina Senate could begin debating that state's first piece of legislation to allow hydraulic fracturing in oil-and-gas drilling next week.

The president is reportedly telling donors that he may need to revisit the health-care law in a second term.