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When Amy Jung began to have a life-threatening diabetic reaction, she had no idea that the pet she had just adopted, a 21-pound orange and white cat named Pudding, would be the one to save her life. When she began to have a seizure the night she brought him home, Pudding jumped onto her bed and woke her up before running to her son's room to sound the alarm. Pudding is now being trained as a therapy animal.

Republican presidential candidates revved up discussion Wednesday night of the 2008 and 2009 auto bailouts of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC during the 20th, and perhaps final, Republican debate in Arizona.

Despite the improving economy, half of the respondents in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll that President Barack Obama's first term has been a failure.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said she believes hydraulic fracturing can be done safely. That may be a slight shift in her previous cautious view.

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney duked it out at CNN's Arizona Republican debate Wednesday night, but Romney came out on top at what will likely be the final debate of the primary season.

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney duked it out at CNN's Republican debate Wednesday night in Arizona, but Romney came out on top at what will likely be the final debate of the primary season.

The Arizona CNN Republican debate, perhaps the last in the roller-coaster campaign to challenge President Barack Obama, saw rivals piling criticism on Rick Santorum, who was apparently trying to build on his surprise rise in recent polls.

Republican rivals pile criticism on US presidential candidate Rick Santorum to blunt surge.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich face off tonight in Arizona for their last primary debate before Super Tuesday. Click here for live coverage of the debate, hosted by CNN, with minute-by-minute updates.

We're all human beings, we all know or love somebody who's gay or lesbian so what the hell is that about?, said former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson on Wednesday about Rick Santorum's view on same-sex marriage.

Find out who's moderating tonight's GOP debate, when it begins, where to watch it live and how to follow it on Twitter by clicking here. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Speaker Newt Gingrich face off in Arizona tonight in the last debate before the Arizona and Michigan primaries, the Washington primary, and Super Tuesday.

Raw milk is 150 times more likely to make you sick than pasteurized milk, according to a new study.

A branch of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Town of Dryden can prohibit the gas drilling hydraulic fracturing within its borders. The decision could embolden other New York municipalities to impose similar bans, potentially upending the primacy of state law over the oil and gas industries.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum may be surging in the polls ahead of Mitt Romney just a week before the Arizona and Michigan primaries, but that has come along with intense media scrutiny and the discovery of rather controversial comments.

Republican voters are split between supporting Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, but neither candidate would unseat President Barack Obama in a general election, a new poll indicates.

Faith has pervaded Rick Santorum's political career, informing his views on issues ranging from abortion to gay rights -- and also, it turns out, the environment.

Rick Santorum continued to defend comments from his past on Tuesday, this time from a 2008 speech about Satan attacking America.

Ryan Marquiss, 3, is the first child to survive being born with his heart outside of his body, a condition known as ectopia cordis. The Pennsylvania boy was born with half his heart protruding out of his chest cavity and has survived against all odds. In addition to ectopia cordis, Marquiss also suffers from hypoplastic right heart syndrome, a condition that limits the development of his heart.

Fans are squealing over Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper's progressing romance, as Saldana and Cooper's mother were seen out together yesterday without the actor.

Researchers uncovered a 300 million-year-old forest buried under volcanic ash in China.

A 300-million-year-old ancient tropical forest has been unearthed under volcanic ashes in China, according to a new report.