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The number of military veterans who are homeless in the New York City metropolitan area is nearly 10,000. That's according to Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

Stock up on your cranberries - Delia Smith is to host her first Christmas special for almost 20 years, it has been announced.

Ah, Veterans Day is upon us. What better time to show our support for our men and women in uniform? But have we really been supporting them? Sure, we thank them when we see them at the airport.

The first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be wildly misplaced, "the war to end all wars." It became a U.S. national holiday in 1938 and in 1954 was renamed Veterans Day to honor all veterans.

Jerry Mundy rarely misses an opportunity to extend his hand and offer thanks to young soldiers and Marines returning home, or departing for the war zone, during their brief layovers at the nation's easternmost major airport, a refueling hub for military transports.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office on Tuesday released surveillance video and a taped confession in the case of a teen's fatal stabbing at his high school , WPLG in Miami reported.

Both a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat, high-carb diet appear to help people lose pounds over the course of a year.

The USA's big airlines expect to carry 4% fewer passengers during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period than they did last year.

Framed by a shrinking mountain reservoir, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a far-reaching water bond on Monday intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The White House launched an effort Monday that it says will turn the government into a model employer of military veterans and possibly provide encouragement for private employers to do the same.President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the Council on Veterans Employment, part of an initiative to encourage ...

It's work that one day may allow far easier diagnosis for patients a ' civilian or military a ' who today struggle to get help for these largely invisible disorders.

Joey Chestnut maintained his dominance in the sport of competitive eating - and expanded his palate - by winning the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas.

Israel is briefly easing its tight blockade of the Gaza Strip to ship in thousands of cattle ahead of a major Muslim holiday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Monday.

A series of tables covered with ingredients to make sushi snakes along the walkway near Sather Gate on the campus of the University of California as students work to construct a 330-foot-long California sushi roll on Sunday, Nov.

An estimated 45,000 onlookers are estimated to have turned out for the annual Veterans Day Parade through the streets of downtown Hartford.

Television cooking star Rachael Ray is boosting the local food supply for a struggling Ohio town.

Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting, and the process of recovery exhausting.

A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near Pakistan's volatile city of Peshawar on Sunday, officials said.

WASHINGTON - It's about jobs, stupid. Like the leftovers of a fat turkey on Thanksgiving, exit polls from Tuesday night's Republican surges in Virginia and New Jersey and the GOP's fratricide in New York's 23rd congressional district gave pundits, pollsters and political consultants a new set of bones to pick through.

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk.