Calling the housing crisis the “single biggest drag on our recovery,” President Obama is urging Congress to act on his latest housing refinance plan. “In order to lower mortgage payments for millions of Americans, we need Congress to act. They’re the ones who have to...

Syrian army assault on Homs kills more than 200, activists say, amid UN wrangling on vote

Police investigate broken windows at Maine home where toddler was reported missing weeks ago

Iran begins new military exercises after threat to close strategic Strait of Hormuz

Tens of thousands of Russians brave brutal cold to rally against Putin's rule

Parts of Colorado received up to six feet of snow.

Police raided the D.C. camp overnight.

Actor Ben Gazzara, whose long and varied career spanned lead roles in the original 1955 Broadway productions of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “A Hatful of Rain,” television, and innumerable film roles including the 1959′s “Anatomy of a Murder” and 1998′s “The Big...

A propane gas leak ignited in a military housing neighborhood in Coleville, Calif., killing one person and injuring six. The leak ignited due to “unknown causes,” U.S. Marine Corps Captain Nicholas Mannweiler said in a news release. Two of the six injured suffered serious injuries...

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Animal Superbowl Predictions

Last week was a pretty good one for the notion of privacy in America, which has increasingly become forlorn and tattered as a result of the advancement of digital technology.

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A British biotech lab has released huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever. But locals, some say, were not adequately informed of the experiment -- and now a debate has erupted over the potential dangers to humans.

If you won't be by a television this Sunday, check out smart phone apps for Super Bowl 46.

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Dante Cassiani of Boston has earned his stripes as a "diehard" New England Patriots fan by driving 950 miles to Indianapolis this weekend in the hope of watching his favorite team play the Super Bowl.

  ABC News’ Ben Forer and Enjoli Francis report: Now that Heather Peters  has won $9,867 in small-claims court against Honda because her 2006 Civic Hybrid had failed to live up to the advertised mileage, others are tempted to file their own complaints in small claims courts. But...

There won’t be a flashy Super Bowl party at the White House this year – at least one that isn’t limited to the first family. After three consecutive years of playing host to dozens of members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and Hollywood stars to watch...