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Via Good Morning America A young man was reunited with his father after a stranger decided to lend the two a hand. This is heart warming story that travels across 6,000 miles.

From CNN: Washington — President Barack Obama plans to meet Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — their first face-to-face since the governor signed the state’s controversial immigration reform law.

Natalee Ann Holloway, born October 21, 1986 disappearance of 30 May 2005, during a high school diploma trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In March 2010, speculation that human remains may have been discovered on the seabed in Aruba vast waters caused the media around the world to once […]

A Nebraska woman says the economy has motivated her to create a business that is different from others. VIEW VIDEO–VIA CNN.COM

Officials say flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 144 people in Central America. Dozens are still missing, thousands have lost homes and emergency crews are struggling to reach isolated communities cut off by washed-out roads and collapsed bridges caused by Tropical Storm Agatha. In hardest-hit Guatemala, where downpours […]

NEW ORLEANS — The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on the first attempt.

PHOENIX — U.S. Justice Department officials told Arizona’s attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations about the state’s new immigration law. They responded that a lawsuit against the state isn’t the answer.

COVINGTON, Louisiana — A risky procedure is failing to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, and BP said Saturday it is considering scrapping it in favor of yet another method to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

As I listened to White House and BP officials describe the frantic search for an answer to cap the massive oil leak one mile below the Gulf Coast, all I could think about was the movie, “Apollo 13.” In the film starring Tom Hanks, some of the nation’s best and brightest working at NASA feverishly […]

VIA: CNN.COM Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we’re searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn’t even know we were looking for. But they can also teach us a lot about ourselves, as more than half of adult internet users […]

Michael Nuzzo says he and his siblings learned how to make pizza in their parents’ famed New Haven pizzeria, and his children should have the same opportunity in his restaurant. That’s not the view of the state Department of Labor, whose special investigator visited Nuzzo’s Grand Apizza Shoreline at 9 E. Main St. earlier this […]

Drop-side cribs, which have a side rail that moves up and down, could be banned. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced a bill to outlaw the sale and manufacture of the cribs. At least 32 infants and toddlers have suffocated or were strangled in drop-side cribs since 2000. The industry has started phasing […]