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Flu Outbreak Surrounds You: How to Fight the Virus With Social Media

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Flu Outbreak Surrounds You: How to Fight the Virus With Social Media The flu season has arrived — and it’s weeks early. In one week, 16 states and New York City reported high levels of the flu. By the following week, that number was up to 29. Each day for the past week, more than 500 New Yorkers...


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Rape Case Lawyers Want Trial Moved

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Rape Case Lawyers Want Trial Moved Attorneys for the two high school football players who face rape charges said today they are considering asking for their upcoming trial to be moved away from Steubenville, Ohio, where emotions are running high. Brian Duncan and Walter Madison, who are representing the juvenile suspects,...


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Get the Most From Unwanted Holiday Presents

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Get the Most From Unwanted Holiday Presents ABC News’ Paula Faris reports: When Jamie and Jordan Cone of Freehold, N.J., were in the market for a new camera after the holidays, they went to Secondipity.com, a likely destination for mountains of unwrapped and then unwanted electronics presents. They’d spent all of their...


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1 in 6 Stars May Have Earth-Size Planets

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1 in 6 Stars May Have Earth-Size Planets The Kepler Space Telescope, an observatory launched by NASA in 2009 to find Earth-like planets, has provided data that suggests there are billions of Earth-sized planets.


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Poisoned Lotto Winner's Body to Be Exhumed

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Poisoned Lotto Winner's Body to Be Exhumed The body of the winner of a $1 million lottery jackpot in Chicago who the medical examiner's office later determined died of cyanide poisoning will likely be exhumed, said the Cook County chief medical examiner.


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Want a 110-Inch Ultra HDTV?

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Want a 110-Inch Ultra HDTV? Samsung offers giant screen, 4 times as detailed as today's HDTVs.


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Ticket Mixup Sells Out Inaugural Ball

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Ticket Mixup Sells Out Inaugural Ball WASHINGTON — An inadvertent early sale of tickets to events surrounding President Obama’s second inauguration means some would-be attendees won’t get their chance to see the occasion. Public sales for the inaugural ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and the day’s parade were...


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Transgender Teacher Sues Over Dismissal

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Transgender Teacher Sues Over Dismissal A transgender teacher is suing the New York City Catholic school where he worked for more than 30 years, claiming he was wrongfully terminated for growing out his hair, painting his fingernails and being "worse than gay."


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Kim, Kanye Spared Baby Legal Drama

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Kim, Kanye Spared Baby Legal Drama Those reports that a California law may force Kim Kardashian to prove that Kanye West fathered her child because she’s still technically married to Kris Humphries? Dismiss them. According to California attorney Dana Cole the legal “anomaly” about presumed fatherhood that is on the books...


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Coach's Affair Exposed to Block Raise, Lawyer Suggests

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Coach's Affair Exposed to Block Raise, Lawyer Suggests The attorney representing Bev Kearney, the former University of Texas coach who recently stepped down after admitting to a decade old affair with a student athlete, has suggested that Kearney's former lover was asked to come forward to prevent Kearney from receiving a substantial raise and extended contract.


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11-Year-Old Girl Fights Archdiocese to Play Football

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11-Year-Old Girl Fights Archdiocese to Play Football Caroline Pla has been playing football for six years – more than half her life. She joined the Junior Varsity Catholic Youth Organization team in the fifth grade and was chosen to play on the all-star team last season. But the Philadelphia Archdiocese's rule against girls playing football on its Catholic Youth Organization teams could put an abrupt end to Caroline's promising football career.


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Teen Killed in Fight for His Jacket

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Teen Killed in Fight for His Jacket A 16-year-old New York teenager is dead after friends say he had an altercation involving his jacket.


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Child Porn Suspects Arrested After Feds Post Photos

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Child Porn Suspects Arrested After Feds Post Photos Special Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified and arrested two suspects in a child pornography cases less than 24 hours after releasing photos of the alleged abusers to get the public's help in finding them.


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Nanny Stabbing Family Returning to NY

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Nanny Stabbing Family Returning to NY After a long-time New York City nanny stabbed to death Lulu and Leo Krim, the devastated Krim family spent time in their native California. They're now taking a road trip home to Manhattan and hope to find inspiration and healing along the way.


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NHL Lockout and the 7 Biggest Sports Strikes

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NHL Lockout and the 7 Biggest Sports Strikes Though the National Hockey League has announced a tentative agreement to end the lockout that has cost NHL fans almost half the 2012-2013 season, fans may need some time to warm to the 50 or so games that may begin in the next two weeks. Gary Bettman, commissioner of the NHL since 1993, has seen his fair share of disputes. While this lockout lasted 113 with 510 missed games, the worst was in the 2004-2005 season which lasted 310 days, causing 1,230 missed games.


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Armed Guards Sent to Patrol Schools in LA, Phoenix

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Armed Guards Sent to Patrol Schools in LA, Phoenix Two of the country's largest counties will be sending armed guards to their schools beginning today to patrol against potential threats.


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Photos: Today in Pictures

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Photos: Today in Pictures Today's Top Photos From Around the Globe


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McCain Calls Google 'Useful Idiots'

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McCain Calls Google 'Useful Idiots' Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joined in the disapproval Monday of Google executive Eric Schmidt, who has drawn criticism for a trip he’s making this week to North Korea, one of the world’s most repressive regimes.  To describe Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who...


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Watch: Obama Nominates John Brennan for CIA Director

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Watch: Obama Nominates John Brennan for CIA Director The president chooses counterterrorism adviser to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.


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