The state health department says it's watching the country's measles outbreak closely, because the majority of cases are in Ohio. 307 cases have been reported so far this year. That's more than any year since 1996. Most are linked to travelers who've been to ...

The state health department says it's watching the country's measles outbreak closely, because the majority of cases are in Ohio. 307 cases have been reported so far this year. That's more than any year since 1996. Most are linked to travelers who've been to ...

The state health department says it's watching the country's measles outbreak closely, because the majority of cases are in Ohio. 307 cases have been reported so far this year. That's more than any year since 1996. Most are linked to travelers who've been to ...

The U.S. now believes the Russians have pulled back "a majority" of the troops that had been stationed on the Ukrainian border, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday. The official said approximately seven battalions remain. A battalion is roughly 1,000 ...

Maya Angelou was a quotable-quote factory. Since her death on Wednesday, at the age of 86, her verbal nuggets have been cobbled into countless lists, in places like USA Today and Oprah's website, all of them hinting, in the words of BuzzFeed's ...

LOS ANGELES: A man was jailed on suspicion of battery after rushing up and touching actor Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the movie “Maleficent,” witnesses and police said, though Pitt was apparently unhurt and soon resumed ...

This time, they out-spelled the spelling bee. For the first time since 1962, two students were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee after they exhausted the official word list before either could prevail. At the end of a grueling 21-round final ...

The $3 million dollar deal between Android's largest competitor Apple, and Beats for the ownership of the companies headphones and streaming music service is getting some mixed feelings from fans and consumers. More importantly than the decision to ...

The White House has said that "clemency is not on the table" for whistleblower Edward Snowden and asserted that the former CIA contractor ought to return to the United States and face charges against him. "Look, let's be clear, clemency is not on the table," ...

The company says most of the recalls are to fix steering problems in SUV's that could result in the loss of power-assisted steering while on the road. Models involved include the Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner, and Ford Explorer. Another of the recalls involves ...

Ukraine's rebel movement was plunged into crisis yesterday after pro-Russian fighters backed by armoured personnel carriers seized the movement's headquarters in Donetsk and destroyed the barricades protecting it.

A Ukrainian prankster accused of punching Brad Pitt at a Hollywood red carpet remained behind bars Thursday and was given a restraining order not to approach the star, police said. PHOTOS. Journalist Vitalii Sediuk is walked off the carpet in handcuffs after ...

A dose of the measles vaccine. On Thursday, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 288 U.S. cases of measles have been reported in 2014 so far, a 20-year high. A dose of the measles vaccine. On Thursday, officials ...

These are the opening words of Disney's latest Maleficent, a much anticipated dark fairytale, starring Angelina Jolie as the lead and the iconic faerie Maleficent, from the 1959 movie, Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent lives in a world divided by two kingdoms; ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Shakespeare excoriated Richard III, the last king of England to die in battle more than 500 years ago, with vibrant verbiage: a "foul bunch-back'd toad," "deformed, unfinish'd" and a hunchback so ugly that dogs barked as he ...

HOUSTON -- The spirit of Dr. Maya Angelou will hover over Houston on Friday, when Major League Baseball presents the Beacon Awards luncheon as part of the Civil Rights Game festivities. Angelou, the noted Noble laureate and cherished American poet, ...

Edward Snowden, in his NBC News exclusive interview with Brian Williams, said that he no longer has the thousands of spying documents he took from the National Security Agency. “The reality is today, I hold no documents at all,” he said in interview ...

Six Indian American youngsters are among 12 finalists vying for victory in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which has been won by one of them for the last six years in a row. The big shocker in Thursday's semifinals came when top contender Vanya ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A dozen of the nation's best young spellers are competing for the title of Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Participants in Thursday night's finals include last year's third-place finisher, 14-year-old Sriram Hathwar of Corning, ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A dozen of the nation's best young spellers are competing for the title of Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Participants in Thursday night's finals include last year's third-place finisher, 14-year-old Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post ...