The lawyer representing Joran Van Der Sloot shot down reports that the Dutch playboy and imprisoned murderer had impregnated a Peruvian woman during a conjugal visit to avoid extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on charges of extortion related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway....

Winner of Florida roach-eating contest collapses, dies after downing dozens of the live bugs
When more than 38,000 competitors set off Sunday at the Chicago marathon, few of them likely had a more incredible journey to the start line than Ben Maenza. Maenza, a Marine lance corporal, lost both his legs two years ago when they were blown off...
Sarah Palin has a message for the “haters” who sent daughter Bristol Palin threatening packages on the set of “Dancing With the Stars” last week: Don’t waste your time. The proud mom and former vice presidential candidate took to her Facebook account today and slammed...
Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex-abuse trial this summer, but he will Tuesday at his sentencing to declare that he is innocent of the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said today, as Sandusky made the same claim in a new audio recording.
“Titanic” director James Cameron has turned to the Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” finally to settle the debate: Did Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, have to die in the 2007 tearjerker? Spoiler alert: At the end of the megahit, Jack freezes to death in the icy...
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LEXINGTON, Va. — Mitt Romney today painted a dismal picture of President Obama’s foreign policy during his years in the White House as the Republican candidate toughened his criticism of the administration’s handling of the terrorist attack in Libya. Romney said that as president he...
The newly restructured GM granted "Nightline" unprecedented access to its super secretive testing facility, called the "Proving Grounds," in Milford, Mich., where they allowed our cameras to film new models being crashed, flooded and pushed to the limit in severe environments.
Israeli officials have deployed a Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile battery to northern Israel Monday, in an apparent response to the appearance of a mysterious drone in Israeli airspace over the weekend. On Saturday, an Israel Air Force jet shot down an unmanned aerial drone over the Negev desert in southern Israel. Israeli officials said they believed the craft had originated in Lebanon and was controlled by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Lady Gaga threw up during a performance in Barcelona. She joins Justin Bieber, Steven Tyler, Scotty McCreery, Marie Osmond and others who have had on-stage mishaps.
A letter where Albert Einstein dismisses the idea of "God" is being sold on eBay. The starting price is $3 million dollars. The letter was handwritten in German to Eric B. Gutkind in 1954, a year before Einstein passed away, in response to Gutkind's book "Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt".
Phil Ivey's $11.5 million gambling win: Was it Banco--or bunko? That's the question being asked in London, as authorities try to determine if trickery or cheating played any role in the American poker star's fabulous winning streak at a game called Punto Banco.Punto Banco--a variant of baccarat--is similar to Chemin de Fer (James Bond's preferred card game), according to London's Daily Mail, which describes it as a high-stakes game favored by high-rollers. Lance Bradley, editor in chief of poker magazine Bluff, calls Punto Banco a game in which skill plays no role whatsoever: winners win and losers lose, strictly by the luck of the draw.