Eli Manning and the New York Giants are Super Bowl champions again, defeating the New England Patriots 21-17 in Indianapolis for their fourth Lombardi Trophy.

Magnitude 6.8 quake shakes central Philippines, triggers local tsunami alert.

Newt Gingrich upped his attacks against President Obama today over his administration’s requirement that some religious hospitals offer co-pay-free birth control under the new health care law. Gingrich’s comments come after a week of outrage from the Catholic Church and his fellow GOP presidential candidates...

Santorum mixes faith and football on the campaign trail.

As United States and Israel grow increasingly concerned over Iran’s nuclear program, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is cautioning that a pre-emptive strike by Israel could spell trouble for America. “If Israel does a unilateral strike, this could be a real problem for...

Egypt ignores US threat to cut aid, refers 19 Americans working for nonprofit groups to trial

George Will calls football a 'mistake' on Super Bowl Sunday.

The husband of a Michigan woman found strangled to death in her Mercedes SUV spoke tearfully about his wife Jane and denied any involvement in her murder in a new interview this weekend. "I had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to her," Bob Bashara said in an interview with the Detroit Free Press newspaper.

American and Australian filmmakers die in helicopter crash during shoot in eastern Australia

Facebook, which filed for an IPO this week, says it has been a success largely because it requires people to use their real names online and thus be more civil to each other. No anonymous flaming allowed. Can it last?

Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play — defined as “apparently purposeless activity that’s fun to do and pleasurable” — be vital for grim survival in such an often random...

Madonna, Madonna, Madonna. She’s inescapable these days, in part because she’s headlining the halftime show of the 2012 Super Bowl (XLVI, officially). She’s promised not to pull a Janet and expose herself. She’s pledged to entertain and delight. But how will she compare to the...

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Paparazzi have a bad reputation for bending the rules to satisfy the world's insatiable demand for celebrity photos. But the business is also incredibly lucrative, something that prompted Bill Gates' Corbis photo agency to buy the world's top paparazzi shop. Some in the industry are trying to free it from its sleazy image, but upstart agencies have few moral qualms.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama sat down with NBC’s Matt Lauer today in a brief interview aired before the Super Bowl. For the last three years the president has done exclusive game-day interviews with whichever network is airing the NFL championship game. Besides talking...

The father of a missing teenage girl who was abducted by an armed man in Anchorage, Alaska, is pleading for the kidnapper to send his daughter home. Samantha Koenig, 18, was last seen Wednesday evening on surveillance video that showed her leaving the Common Grounds...

Madonna went over the top with the Super Bowl halftime show as only the Queen of Pop could, doing a sequin and gold-studded medley of some of her greatest hits — “Vogue,” “Like a Prayer” — and a couple of her newer songs. The Material Girl...