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A troubled Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” online and plotted to kill a Swedish artist was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she had been consumed by thoughts of a Muslim holy war.
A federal judge on Monday sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to slapping a crying toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight to serve eight months in federal prison. The sentence was more than prosecutors sought.
A woman at the Zapote Bull Festival in Costa Rica didn’t stand a chance once the bull locked in on her. But she lived to talk about it in a post-toss interview.
An Iowa science teacher inspired by the 2004 documentary Supersize Me went on a McDonald’s-only diet recently to show it is our dietary choices, not the food itself, that causes weight gain.
Chip maker Nvidia Corp. fessed up Sunday: They were responsible for the 310-foot “crop circle” in a California barley field, designed to draw attention to a new product as CES got going in Las Vegas.
Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said Monday she is abandoning her effort to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming.
A missing man who was reunited with his family after he was photographed while pressed against a steam vent to keep warm in downtown Washington is on his way back home to upstate New York.
On a wintry weekend, Disney’s “Frozen” retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the horror spinoff “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.”
A small plane traveling to Connecticut after taking a tour of the Statue of Liberty made an emergency landing Saturday on a New York City interstate highway, startling drivers but touching down safely with no serious injuries to anyone aboard or on the ground, officials said.
An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home on Saturday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice.
How does 6 inches of snow look? While people in Las Vegas may not see such a sight often, the East Coast is seeing it right now.
A storm in the Northeast on Friday shut down major highways temporarily, grounded flights, closed schools and was blamed for at least 14 deaths in the eastern half of the country. Frigid temperatures were unusual even cities accustomed to blasts of winter weather.
A man who allegedly stole human brain samples from a medical history museum was arrested after a California man who bought some of the tissue online alerted authorities.
A coroner’s report says the Porsche carrying “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker may have been going 100 mph or more before it crashed, killing both Walker and the driver.