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Actress Beverly D'Angelo attends the 7th Annual Wish Night on behalf of the Make-A-Wish Foundation at The Beverly Hills Hotel on November 17, 2006 in Beverly Hills, California.

A group of music figures has begun a campaign against mountaintop coal removal. The campaign, Music Saves Mountains, is sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Gibson Foundation.

If you are a smoker, when was the last time you said, "I need to quit"? The American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout is Nov.

A state trooper in northwest Ohio who was honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1997 for the number of drunken-driving arrests he made has been charged with drunken driving.

President Barack Obama has chosen Rajiv Shah, a medical doctor and currently a senior official at the Department of Agriculture dealing with food security, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development, the officials said.

The number of homeless veterans in Kansas has grown in recent years, according to a new report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday.

C enter City Amarillo has been recognized as one of the 56 National Main Street Cities in Texas.

The Syrian authorities must immediately release veteran human rights lawyer Haytham al-Maleh, and drop all charges against him, Amnesty International said, as he appeared before a military judge in Damascus on Tuesday.

US Senator Al Franken introduced a bill late last week that will address the national backlog of untested rape kits.

WASHINGTON - The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting nominations for its 2010 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list.

Amnesty International condemned an invitation extended by Turkey on Friday to Sudanese President Omar al Bashir to attend a meeting in Turkey, even though he is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A new study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts.

Low blood cholesterol levels reduce the risk not only of heart disease but also of cancer , two new studies show.

BEIRUT: At least six domestic migrant workers are believed to have committed suicide in the past month in Lebanon.

A man sentenced to death in the USA after a jury consulted the Bible to decide his fate is now only hours away from execution, as calls continue for the governor in the state of Texas to intervene to prevent the execution.

" An endowment contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to honor Dr.

In a first for a key official in Albemarle, Supervisor-elect Rodney Thomas - who refused to sign a campaign-time pledge to support the controversial $200 million water plan propounded by the Nature Conservancy - indicated on Coy Barefoot's WINA radio show Friday that he's willing to modify or kill the plan due to the County's dire financial straits ...

Death penalty for being gay in Uganda? The people of Uganda and are letting the government there know they do not support an anti-homosexuality measure known as the "Bahati Bill," named after its author, MP David Bahati.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar cannot sue the United States over his forced deportation to Syria after his arrest in New York as a suspected terrorist.