When Claire Ives was seven months pregnant with her third child, she used a handheld device to listen to her unborn son’s heartbeat. As she turned the machine on, she thought something had malfunctioned. “I thought I wasn’t listening right or something,” Ives, a nurse...


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By Catherine G. Wolf: I am in my seventeenth year with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — more than half of my younger daughter’s life. I am a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator to breathe. I’m one of the 10 percent who...


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Read more: Living With Lou Gehrig's Disease, Blocked From Drug Trials

A massive meteor shower slammed into Earth near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, located about 1,000 east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.


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Read more: Hundreds Injured in Blast as Meteor Falls in Russia

Accused killer Jodi Arias has taken the stand for five days in a row to detail the ups and downs, the erotic sex and religious secrets and alleged violence in her relationship with ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in order to convince a jury she is not guilty of murder.


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Read more: Jodi Arias Sidesteps Talk of Killing on Stand

A look at whether the European horse meat scandal could happen in the U.S.


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Read more: European Horse Meat Scandal Not Likely to Happen in U.S.

The asteroid 2012 DA14, about 150 feet across, will come closest to Earth on Friday afternoon, Eastern time. It will miss by 17,200 miles -- not much to astronomers.


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Read more: Asteroid Makes Closest Pass Today

A legal loophole could prevent good Samaritans, instrumental in ending the manhunt for a fugitive ex-cop accused of killing four people, from claiming more than $1 million in reward money -- because Christopher Dorner died and was not captured.


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Read more: Legal Loophole Could Hold Up $1M Dorner Reward

New evidence suggests that exposure to a chemical that is now carried in nearly all of us can alter the reproductive system for many generations to come. The chemical, known as bisphenol A (BPA), has been the subject of environmental debate for years. It is present in food and beverage containers ranging from soup to beer, and it is common for it to leach into the contents and thus become part of our diet.


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Prosecutors to pursue premeditated murder charge against weeping superstar Oscar Pistorius


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Read more: Pistorius Prosecutors to Pursue Premeditated Murder

Planned 'traditional' prom barring gays raises questions about tolerance in small Indiana city


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Read more: Plans for Prom Barring Gays Rocks Ind.