WILMINGTON, Del. – Court documents show that a Wilmington man has been charged with raping and kidnapping a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl he met on MySpace. Thirty-seven-year-old David Hart was charged in February after persuading the Allentown girl to skip school and go with him to his home in January. The …

Treatment with the diabetes drug Actos, known technically as pioglitazone, seems to reduce brain shrinkage and may have other beneficial effects in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers report. If confirmed, this drug or one in the same class might be useful as add-on treatment for people with MS, Dr. …

A Welsh artist has been given a $33,043 U.K. National Lottery grant – to look at girls’ behinds. Sue Williams was given the cash to “explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks.” She will create plaster cast molds of women’s behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. Mrs. …

CONCORD, N.H. – A new analysis by a Dartmouth College professor concludes that the infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been nearly impossible to fake. Oswald, who was shot to death days after being charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, claimed …

It appears that officials in three states–Illinois, Montana, and Colorado–are salivating over the hope of landing a federal contract to house some of the remaining Gitmo detainees. The reason for such desperation appears mostly to be driven by desperate economics. Amid reports this weekend that President Obama’s home state of …

Is America losing power in the world? That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” There was some good news today with unemployment dropping a little bit. But generally speaking, the economy remains weak and the dollar is in big trouble all around the world. As we reported …

A shelter-in-place order was lifted in Texas City, Texas, on Sunday hours after city officials said a chemical was released at a refinery. The city shared an alert about the situation at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery on its social media just after 9 a.m. local time. Several hours later, …

Britain and France reiterated their determination Tuesday that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine ends in failure, with the U.K. foreign minister saying that Ukraine’s allies must better leverage their economic might to vastly outmatch Moscow’s war machine. The renewed insistence from U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron and French counterpart Catherine …

A man imprisoned for concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in two unrelated rape cases in a deal that lets him avoid additional prison time. Houston County Superior Court records show that Bo Dukes agreed to plea deals Nov. 13 to settle …

John Kerry must be joking. Fresh off his role as chief scrivener for Barack Obama Chamberlain, the secretary of state called it “very disturbing” that Iran’s supreme leader vowed to continue opposing the United States despite the nuclear deal. Did Kerry sleepwalk through the last 18 months? Iran’s leaders continually …