Kickstart is a funding website where people can donate money for different efforts. From trips to houses to film production to, now, potato salad. Zack Danger Brown, of Columbus, needed some funding for a potato salad and the response has been overwh ...

China's president is in Seoul to meet his South Korean counterpart. In a not-so-veiled gibe at North Korea, the two leaders repeated their opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

This Russian video of a scary bikie gang attacking an innocent driver is not quite what it seems.

No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calc ...

The local name for the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington is “the Badlands,” and with good reason. Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent. Just a few ...

One of the big stories in the media world is the so-called "death of television," the idea that young people are ditching their expensive cable packages in favor of watching video content online through sites like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, an ...

einfeld premiered 25 years ago this week — but even the most dedicated viewers of its era probably missed its inaugural episode. Dumped in a graveyard slot as a mid-summer replacement, the series (which was then titled The Seinfeld Chronicles) was gi ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 on Monday that Hobby Lobby, a family-owned hardware retail chain, has a right to religious freedom. A crucial issue dividing the majority and the dissents was what kinds of corporations have this right. For the majority, J ...

Health-related buzzwords, such as “antioxidant,” “gluten-free” and “whole grain,” lull consumers into thinking packaged food products labeled with those words are healthier than they actually are, according to a new research study conducted by schola ...

Every generation creates its own monsters. Folk tales tell of witches and wyrms in the woods, my TV-infused generation feared Jaws in lakes and Bloody Mary in the mirror. This generation gets its monsters from the Internet.

Almost everyone killed by lightning in the United States is a man. Since 2006, 80% of lightning victims were men. All seven people killed by lightning so far this year were men. This brings us to the only possible conclusion: men are stupid.

One in 10 working adults between 2006 and 2010 died because of excessive drinking.

Germany has set a new record, with solar power providing 50.6% of its electricity in the middle of the day on Monday June 9th. Solar production peaked that day at 23.1GW. Three days earlier it was 24.2GW between 1 and 2pm, but on the 9th demand was d ...

Five days of rainstorms in southern China have left 26 people dead and another three missing and led to direct economic losses of 4 billion yuan ($650 million), according to the country's Ministry of Civil Affairs.

A Michigan judge has issued an impossible order to a deployed sailor: Appear in court Monday or face arrest and the possibility of losing custody of his 6-year-old daughter, ABC News reports. Matthew Hindes is currently serving on the USS Michigan un ...

The Wii U is on the brink of success, according to Nintendo of America marketing executive Scott Moffitt. Speaking with GamesIndustry International at E3, Moffitt pointed out that the 3DS also got off to a slow start before Nintendo cut the price and ...

Poor communication from the medical industry and overblown media reports have been partially blamed for an increase in suicide attempts by teenagers and young adults in the US.

The maker of a drone that fires pepper spray bullets says it has received its first order for the machine. South Africa-based Desert Wolf told the BBC it had secured the sale of 25 units to a mining company after showing off the tech at a trade show. ...

Body marking has been used for centuries in parts of Africa to indicate a person's tribal heritage. It's becoming less common but some people still want to carry the marks of their ancestors. This article contains images which some might fi ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent birthday wishes to Queen Elizabeth on her official birthday via the reclusive nation's second-most powerful official. The chief of the Presidium of the Supreme Assembly of North Korea Kim Yong-nam conveye ...