Favre has retired so many times, many people don't believe him. If he's up to par this season, he'd be worth at least $11 million to the Minnesota Vikings.
Only about 26 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak is still in the water or onshore, and most of it is diluted and breaking down rapidly, officials say.
In Tuesday’s primary election nearly three-quarters of all those casting ballots registered their opposition to the federal mandate that all citizens buy health insurance.
AP - With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.
AP - A federal judge overturned California's gay marriage ban Wednesday with an unequivocal ruling that could eventually force the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed.
The Iranian government has denied a report that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of an assassination attempt today. According to a conservative Iranian news website, however, a grenade was thrown at the presidential convoy as it passed through the western city of Hamedan this morning.
Millions of Kenyans have taken to the polls in one of the country's most historic elections which will determine the fate of a new constitution. The vote is being influenced by the debate in the U.S. over abortion, and Christian Rights groups are crying foul.
As President Obama heads to Chicago to celebrate his 49th birthday, Michelle Obama has set off for a getaway in sunny Spain.
Though the Obama family's oldest daughter Malia, 12, is at summer camp, the first lady and her nine-year-old daughter, Sasha, are soaking up the rays in Marbella, located on southern Spain's Costa del Sol.
A Brazilian goalie, his lover and his wife were among nine people charged with the murder of his former girlfriend who had been trying to prove he had fathered her son.
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