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From Superstorm Sandy and last year's drought to tornadoes, wildfires and a hurricane, the weather and climate disasters of 2012 caused more than $110 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest years on record for weather events, national climate data show.

AEG Live's negotiations with a doctor to treat Michael Jackson were "highly inappropriate," a music industry veteran testified Monday.

With defendant James "Whitey" Bulger sitting less than eight feet away and staring straight ahead, a star government witness in the case against Bulger explained Monday why he turned against the man he long counted among "my partners in crime, my best friends."

The Oxford English Dictionary has finally gotten around to acknowledging that tweeting isn't just for the birds.

Everything was going fine, until the bill came.

The FBI is planning to dig in a Detroit-area field for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a source with knowledge of the search says.

Here's hoping Yeiner Garizabalo wears more to court Tuesday than he did in a San Francisco subway station in May.

Condemned serial murderer Richard Ramirez, known as the "Night Stalker" to the Californians he terrorized in the 1980s, died of cancer, according to coroner's findings released Monday.

A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast, local police said.

Paula Cooper was just 16 years old when she became the youngest person on death row in the United States.

Two California teens who stranded themselves atop a windy, 8,600-foot-high cliff ended up being rescued in what resembled a movie scene, according to authorities.

It was a bloody Father's Day weekend in Chicago, but police said murder and shooting rates are significantly below those at the same time last year.

Dean Obeidallah, John Avlon, Margaret Hoover and guest Chris Cuomo on this week's top issues: NSA, charities and CIA.

Donna Brazile says anti-abortionist Rep. Trent Franks just doesn't get it when he justified why victims of rape and incest get no exception in his proposal for an abortion bill.

Ruben Navarrette says the story of the boy who was bashed on social media after singing the National Anthem in mariachi costume is instructive

As hundreds of firefighters began to get the upper hand on a huge blaze near Colorado Springs, Colorado, investigators stepped up their probe into the cause of the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.

Sunken World War II ship is now underwater gallery, featuring 12 sumptuous photographs of retro sailors and their sweethearts.

Peter Bergen says the public record tends to cast doubt on the NSA's claim that its electronic surveillance has helped stop numerous plots

The man who leaked classified documents on U.S. surveillance programs will go online live Monday, according to the British newspaper that published the materials that sparked a global controversy over government data mining.

The founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center wants the Justice Department to investigate allegations that a Minnesota man commanded a Nazi unit accused of war crimes in World War II.