Action News has learned a mother and daughter injured during a food truck explosion in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia earlier this month have died.

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ordered a review of the state's execution process after a convicted double murderer gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half before his death Wednesday. 

    And here we thought the biggest Kim Kardashian news for today was going to be her latest bikini pic—we'll get to that—but this is even better! The proud mommy shared that...

    GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The death toll in Gaza topped 700 on Thursday as Israeli tank fire before dawn killed 16 people in the Hamas-dominated coastal territory, including six members of the same family, Palestinian health officials said.

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    It's almost as if Justin Bieber is trying to pull a BeyoncĂ© on us—well, kinda. The Biebs didn't surprise us with an album drop out of the blue, but he did tease an...

    Big Brother just got a whole lot harder for one player…and it has nothing to do with the game. Contestant Frankie Grande, who is also Ariana Grande's brother, received...

    There's another hot bromance blossoming in Hollywood. Besties Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson were spotted hanging out at hot spot Bootsy Bellows for what E! News has learned was a...

    Tori Spelling hopes to be able to share the whole true Tori, er, story with her kids one day. "I hope to be able to have a very candid conversation with them one day because I hope...

    And here we thought the biggest Kim Kardashian news for today was going to be her latest bikini pic—we'll get to that—but this is even better! The proud mommy shared that...

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's food regulator has visited close to 600 restaurants, businesses and food distributors as it investigates a fast-spreading food safety scare that has dragged in a number of global brands and hit food outlets as far away as Japan.

    Manufacturing activity is at an 18-month high in China as factories roar to life after a dismal start to the year.

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity expanded at its fastest pace in 18 months in July as new orders surged, a preliminary HSBC survey showed on Thursday, the latest indication that the economy is picking up as government stimulus measures kick in.

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Preacher after preacher stepped up to the pulpit at a sweltering Brooklyn church on Wednesday to express fury at the city's police force during the funeral of Eric Garner, who died soon after police put him in a banned chokehold.

    GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The death toll in Gaza topped 700 on Thursday as Israeli tank fire before dawn killed 16 people in the Hamas-dominated coastal territory, including six members of the same family, Palestinian health officials said.

    CHICAGO (AP) -- Childhood traumas are more common among military members and veterans than among civilians, according to a new study. Researchers say the results support the notion that for some, enlistment serves as an escape from troubled upbringings....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undercover investigators using fake identities were able to secure taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will hear testimony Wednesday detailing how undercover investigators used fake identities to get taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six federal judges on two appeals courts have weighed in on a key component of President Barack Obama's health care law. Their votes lined up precisely with the party of the president who appointed them....

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Experimentation with human growth hormones by America's teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people looked to drugs to boost their athletic performance and improve their looks, according to a new, large-scale national survey....

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's government unveiled stimulus plans Thursday after the shock of a deadly ferry sinking slowed economic growth to the lowest level in three quarters.

    Do you know Karen Harbin? Her marketing plan says that if you don't, you should. Harbin, the president and chief executive officer of Frankfort-based Commonwealth Credit Union, is the face…Click to Continue »

    TOKYO (AP) — Japan's trade deficit surged to a record 7.6 trillion yen ($74.9 billion) in the first half of the year as exports failed to keep pace with surging imports, the Finance Ministry r…

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's economic growth hit its lowest level in three quarters after a deadly ferry sinking dented consumer spending, the central bank said Thursday.

    TOKYO (AP) — Japan's trade deficit more than tripled from the year before in June to a higher-than-expected 822.2 billion yen ($8.1 billion), as imports surged and exports edged lower.

    HAVANA (AP) -- Many people in this tiny hamlet on the southern coast of Cuba remember when the shore lay about 100 meters (yards) farther out. That was four decades ago....

    Strengthening community forest rights is an essential strategy to reduce billions of tonnes of carbon emissions, making it an effective way for governments to meet climate goals, safeguard forests and protect the livelihoods of their citizens, according to a major new report. The paper provides the most comprehensive analysis to date linking legal recognition and government protection of community forest rights with reductions in carbon pollution.

    Children, teenagers and young adults living near Sellafield or Dounreay since the 1990s are not at an increased risk of developing cancer according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer today.

    Paracetamol is no better than placebo at speeding recovery from acute episodes of lower back pain or improving pain levels, function, sleep, or quality of life, according to the first large randomised trial to compare the effectiveness of paracetamol with placebo for low-back pain. The findings, published in The Lancet, question the universal endorsement of paracetamol as the first choice painkiller for low-back pain, say the authors.

    The U.S. Department of Transportation rolled out long-promised standards on Wednesday.

    NHL vet Sarich hospitalized after cycling crash

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    Tigers get closer Soria from Texas for prospects

    Phils consider cutting Howard?

    Report: Bulls make big Love offer

    China’s anti-monopoly investigation of Qualcomm is starting to disrupt its licensing business and making it harder for the U.S. company to collect royalties from the country.The government probe is creating “significant challenges” for Qualcomm, the company reported on Wednesday in an earnings presentation.China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) began examining Qualcomm’s business in November, following complaints that the company had been overcharging local clients.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    The sale of the domain Bitcoins.com, affiliated with Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, has been halted after a U.S. court order, according to the auction house.“This lot has been withdrawn from this auction. Bids are no longer accepted and previous bids are cancelled,” U.S.-based Heritage Auctions wrote on its website.The move follows a restraining order issued Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle that effectively prevented the sale.Responding to a motion by Bitcoin startup company CoinLab, the court ordered Mt. Gox parent company Tibanne, which is led by Karpeles and owns Bitcoins.com, to preserve and account for all its assets. The duration of the restraining order is 14 days.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Twitter disclosed the gender and ethnicity breakdown of its employees on Wednesday, less than a week after U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the company to release its employee diversity information.The data is more or less in line with that released earlier by the company’s Silicon Valley peers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn, which showed that both women and blacks are a minority in their companies.Silicon Valley tech companies have been under pressure to release their employee diversity data after Jackson initiated a campaign to highlight the underrepresentation of African-Americans in Silicon Valley companies, starting with a delegation in March to Hewlett-Packard’s annual meeting of shareholders.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Facebook reported Wednesday that it now handles an average of more than 1 billion searches a day, but it still has work to do to provide a comprehensive search tool.Early last year, Facebook unveiled an ambitious search project called Graph Search. The feature was conceived to index the people on Facebook, their posts and the connections between them, to provide a personalized search tool based around people’s social networks. It would allow for searches on a variety of topics pertaining to places, people, interests and other topics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    A vulnerability broker published a video demonstrating one of several flaws it has found in the privacy-focused Tails operating system, which is used by those seeking to make their Web browser harder to trace.Exodus Intelligence of Austin, Texas, said its short clip shows how the real IP address of a Tails user can be revealed using the flaw. The company said it hoped publicizing its findings would serve as a warning to users about putting “unconditional trust” in a software platform.“Users should question the tools they use, they should go even further to understand the underlying mechanisms that interlock to grant them security,” Exodus said in a blog post on Wednesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ordered a review of the state's execution process after a convicted double murderer gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half before his death Wednesday. 

    Joseph Rudolph Wood looked around the death chamber and glanced at the doctors as they made preparations for his execution, locating the proper veins and inserting two lines into his arms.

    A line of strong and noisy storms made its way through the region Wednesday night.

    Action News has learned a mother and daughter injured during a food truck explosion in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia earlier this month have died.

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A popular tourist train derailed Wednesday in southeast Alaska, and nine people suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

    TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Family members of victims of a plane crash were flying to the small Taiwanese island on Thursday where the plane had unsuccessfully attempted to land in stormy weather, killing 48. There were 10 survivors, and authorities were searching for one person who might have been in a wrecked house on the ground....

    The U.N. secretary-general on Wednesday said he was "alarmed" to hear that rockets were placed in a U.N.-run school in Gaza and now "have gone missing," and he demanded a full review of such incidents.

    TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A plane attempting to land in stormy weather crashed on a small Taiwanese island late Wednesday, killing 48 people and wrecking houses and cars on the ground....

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Shopkeepers say they were sitting outside their shuttered businesses Wednesday, catching a break from being cooped up during wartime, when an Israeli missile struck a nearby mosque, killing a truck driver and wounding 45 people....

    The Spanish-language television network started by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a vehicle for promoting in Latin America his leftist brand of political change will now reach audiences in English.