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Republicans on Thursday issued a politically charged report that quoted President Barack Obama's corporate advisers as predicting his 2010 healthcare overhaul would raise - not lower - the cost of care.

Speculation turned into confirmation Wednesday when Aubrey Huff's disappearance from the San Francisco Giant starting lineup was explained. A serious performance anxiety attack has placed the Giants first baseman on the 15-day disabled list

Child-marriages have been illegal in India since the 2006 passage of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, but the practice persists unabated, particularly among the rural poor.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the subject of much scrutiny lately due to her leading role examining the Arizona Immigration Law, titled S.B. 1070. These photos outline her history, from her unique childhood experiences through her meteoric rise to the highest court in the United States justice system.

Floyd Money Mayweather Jr. has never been shy about speaking his mind, and in the new HBO Sports show Speaking Out, Mayweather Jr. sits down with celebrity sociologist Michael Eric Dyson to discuss several subjects from his life to his career as an undefeated professional boxer.

If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds part of the Arizona immigration enforcement law, it can still be struck down through lawsuits claiming civil rights violations after the law goes into effect.

An extradition hearing has been set for Joran Van Der Sloot, the 24-year-old accused of killing Natalee Holloway, now imprisoned in Peru for an unrelated murder.

The discovery of the world?s former most wanted man threatened relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.

The first part in a saga of litigation and claims for damages following the BP 2010 Gulf oil spill is just days away from being finished.

A South African 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the rape of an eight-year-old girl. The eight-year-old, whose name cannot be released, was also bitten and had her eyes gouged out.

An Indiana teacher was fired from a Roman Catholic school after undergoing in vitro fertilization, which the Church strictly shuns, according to the Associated Press. The 31-year-old former educator, Emily Herx, is filing a lawsuit claiming that her termination last June was a result of discrimination. The case could spark serious legal controversy over reproductive rights and religious rights.

More than a third of the $200 million poured into Super PACs this election cycle has flowed from a mere 10 donors, including seven individuals, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity including murder, rape, terrorism and conscripting child soldiers by an international court on Thursday.

While Zsa Zsa Gabor is 95 years of age and on the brink of passing away, her husband, Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt, and his stepdaughter Francesca Hilton are battling over the Hungarian actress' conservatorship.

New court documents revealed pregnant man Thomas Beatie is splitting from his wife Nancy of 9 years because she is a violent alcoholic that physically and emotionally abused him.

She also said that this new dynamic may lead to significant changes with respect to Pakistan?s relationships with the U.S. and India.

James Tapke, 41, of Ohio, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a misdemeanor charge of binding his 12-year-old daughter with duct tape and locking her in a metal dog cage. Tapke claims the incident, dating back to January, was just a joke.

The New York police have arrested a woman who admitted to faking cancer for years to gain sympathy gifts and money from family, friends and donors.

Pakistan's Supreme Court Thursday sentenced Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to a symbolic detention for a few seconds after he was found guilty of contempt of court by refusing to reopen the corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer Wednesday were concerned with how Arizona's immigration enforcement law would operate on the ground.

Marine Corp Sergeant Gary Stein has been discharged from the Marine Corps after criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook.