This oh-so-sweet video shows one dog's journey from tragedy to triumph.

After having her leg broken by apparently heartless burglars, this pup slowly moves from her sullen, Sarah McLachlan video phase to a happy, excitable pooch running all over the place.

"I had to bend reality...

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof has penned a scathing piece about Backpage and the site's links to child prostitution.

Kristof describes the online classifieds site which includes a section for escorts to advertise, as a "godsend to pimps, allowing customers to order...

With big banks inching closer to a settlement over allegedly improper foreclosures -- one that critics call too lenient -- progressive groups are calling on President Obama to get tougher on Wall Street.

In a press release, Move On, Color of Change and other...

In the wake of raids on Occupy Wall Street encampments in multiple cities, some, like AlterNet, have wondered whether federal law enforcement spent time and resources coordinating with local authorities to crackdown on the protests.

On Tuesday, The Examiner published a story quoting an anonymous...

This couldn't happen to a nicer group of guys.

If you're searching for a reason not to have sex with animals, add this to the list: It could give you penis cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The authors found that...

A reporter who was arrested during an Occupy Nashville Protest has posted video of his altercation with authorities. His employer says the video offers proof that the arrest was unlawful.

Jonathan Meador, who works for the alt-weekly Nashville Scene was arrested and charged with public intoxication, according to...

Mark Rudd was once a leader of an organization that advocated for the violent overthrow of the American government.

He is also the ex-husband of this reporter's mom.

In 1968, he led the occupation of five buildings on Columbia's campus to protest the university's funding of the Vietnam...

MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Georgia judge has dismissed one charge against a woman convicted of vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son died as they jaywalked, but she's still considering whether to drop two other charges.

Attorney Steve Sadow asked Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley to drop all charges...

FAIRFAX, Va. — It was hate and revenge – not insanity – that drove a Virginia woman to toss her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-level pedestrian bridge at the state's largest shopping mall, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday in the murder trial of...

MIAMI -- Two deep-sea divers say their charter boat stranded them three miles off Key Biscayne in the shark-infested Atlantic.

The men, 44-year-old Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta, a tourist from Spain, clung to a fishing buoy until passengers on a passing yacht spotted them.

When Esta Soler formed what would become the San Francisco-based Futures Without Violence 30 years ago, no one would return her calls.

"It was pretty lonely," Soler said. "But we've taken domestic violence from the backpage and put it on the frontpage."

Since its beginning, Futures Without Violence...

Two Houston police officers could be asking "dude, where's my credibility?" after a suspect accused them of eating his pot brownies.

Nicholas Hill, 19, claims that Houston cops took his brownies, that they knew were laced with marijuana, and munched away after arresting the teen for...

She was the one that got away.

Malcolm Brenner, 60, wrote "Wet Goddess," a new book about a man's nine-month sexual relationship with a dolphin -- an affair that bears "a striking degree of resemblance" to his own interspecies romance.

The author claims he started...

When the headline screams, "Gordon Ramsay's Porn Dwarf Double Eaten by Badger," it's hard to resist reading, even if it isn't true.

The Sunday Sport spun quite a yarn with an initial piece that claimed a pint-sized adult film star who bears a striking resemblance to celebrity chef...

An award winning kids book about evolution was turned down by several American publishers because it was too controversial, according to the book's author.

"Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be" has just won the Lane Anderson award as the best science book...

When Erik Kimel launched Peer2Peer Tutors, at the age of 16, his idea was simple: students can help other students succeed academically.

"We have a huge achievement gap in this country," Kimel said. "If you're born into a certain zip code, no matter how bad you mess up,...

For many years, Kenneth Fisher said he never realized the struggles that military families experience.

"I really didn't know much about the plight of military families," Fisher said. "I was like too many others in this country who only saw the soldiers and not the families and the sacrifices they...

A new report from PLoS Medicine has disappointing data for the developing world and the United States.

U.S. babies are more likely to die during the first month of life than babies born in dozens of other countries, including Poland, Cuba and Malaysia, CBS...

When addressing the challenge of changing behavior, Marjorie Hill says it's easy to blame the victim.

"There's always a tendency to look at the person and say, 'why don't you just stop smoking or eating red meat or start exercising?'" The Gay Men's Health Crisis CEO and

Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that he is stepping down as Apple's CEO. Thus ends the tech tycoon's reign at the top of the world's most valuable technology company.

Former COO Tim Cook will take over as the company's CEO; Jobs will remain with Apple as...