Taylor Swift's turning into quite the philanthropist, but that doesn't mean she's too busy for her BFFs! The 22-year-old singer donated $4 million to the Country Music Hall...

    For Russell Brand, a lot has changed since his last appearance on Ellen back in December when he slammed all the speculation that he and Katy Perry were heading toward splitsville. Cut...

    Jennifer Lopez couldn't be leaving American Idol at a better time. At a better time. And, no, not because a Mariah Carey is waiting in the wings. MORE: Jennifer...

    We've said it in the past, but in Bel Ami, Robert Pattinson has sex with everyone. Seriously. We saw an early screening of Rob's latest flick (it hits theaters June 8)...

    Jennie Garth's still got it. The soon-to-be divorced actress appears on E!'s Fashion Police (airing Friday) and someone from the audience seemed to enjoy her presence...and her...

    With seemingly unceasing demand for Facebook's initial public offering, the banks in charge of selling the stock to investors might seem to have the easiest job in the world.

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated with modern paintings by Israeli artists and a copy of Israel's 1948 declaration of independence. It contains little more than a long wooden table, brown leather chairs and a single old-fashioned white projector screen.

    Gas prices are coming down for most of the nation, but not for Lynnae McCoy and other residents of the West Coast.

    Buying a home has reached its most affordable level in more than two decades.

    U.S. stocks slipped into the red at the open Thursday, as investors continued to worry about Greece.

    Garlic and grated onion help to keep these flavorful burgers moist

    I've left the isolation of the hospital after my bone marrow transplant and no longer need to be connected to IVs around the clock. I'm enjoying my freedom, but cancer continues to dictate my choices, writes Suleika Jaouad.

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count....

    Nationwide, about 450,000 children have lead levels higher than the new standard, compared with 250,000 children using the old standard.

    A group of young feminists is campaigning against digitally retouched photographs in a teen magazine.

    The summer travel season should be a busy one, according to the U.S. Travel Association. "For the second consecutive year, the outlook for summer travel continues to brighten with more than three in five U.S. adults (64 percent), or an estimated 154 million Americans, planning on taking at least one trip for leisure purposes during the next six months. The percentage of Americans planning to travel between May and October is up from 61 percent last April and 56 percent in April 2010," according...

    Country music phenom Taylor Swift will donate $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to fund a new education center, marking the museum's largest capital contribution in history. The 7,500-square Taylor Swift Education Center will encompass parts of two floors, feature three classrooms and a children's exhibit gallery, according to a new release. The center is slated to open in early 2014. The gift was made in conjunction with Working on a Building: Country Music Lives Here, the...

    Tom Stillman’s ownership group of the St. Louis Blues raised $72 million in an equity offering to buy the team, with each investor putting in at least $1 million, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC Form D document, required for such fundraising, does not specify how much each investor kicked in. The name of the corporate entity was SLB Acquisition Holdings LLC and is registered to the same address as Stillman’s Summit Distributing beer distribution...

    A measure of future U.S. economic activity fell in April after six months of increases. The drop reflected weakness in housing and hiring.

    Sears Holdings Corp. said Thursday it returned to a profit in the first quarter as it benefitted from a gain on the sale of underperforming stores. The troubled retailer also said it would spi…

    Science tries to keep pace with new rules setting limits on microorganisms in the ballast of ships plying American waters.

    A new study from professor Nira Liberman of Tel Aviv University demonstrates that children can be "primed" for creativity through the development of "expansive thought" -- encouraging children to think about distant objects and even the galaxies in the skies above. Relatively simple exercises can get children in the right frame of mind.

    Scientists at the University of Nottingham have opened the way for more accurate research into new ways to fight dangerous bacterial infections by proving a long-held theory about how bacteria communicate with each other.

    A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve recurrence rates and is well tolerated in an adjuvant setting, according to new research from a clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

    Researchers have unveiled an "inexact" computer chip that challenges the industry's dogmatic 50-year pursuit of hardware accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by at least 15 times over today's technology by allowing for occasional errors. Prototypes unveiled this week at the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers in Cagliari, Italy, by experts from Houston's Rice University, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, Switzerland's Center for Electronics and Microtechnology and the University of California, Berkeley.

    Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded he initially lied about his involvement with steroids.

    Old Dominion is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association and joining Conference USA.

    A scary situation involving Tampa Bay second baseman Will Rhymes overshadowed another strong outing by Rays right-hander Jeremy Hellickson.

    The chairman of London's Olympics Organizing Committee says he is excited at the prospect of taking possession of the Olympic flame and bringing it to Britain.

    Doug O'Neill could have been insulted. The Preakness odds had just been announced and the Kentucky Derby winner was second favorite behind a horse he ran down and defeated two weeks earlier.

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    One in two mobile subscribers now has a smartphone, according to a Nielsen study, and the average number of apps on each device is 41.

    All search engines thrive on advertising, and the longer your eyes stay on the search engine itself, the more likely it is that you will click on an ad.

    NEW YORK (AP) -- President Obama's campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to push back harder against plans by a conservative-leaning independent group to showcase Obama's ties to his controversial pastor....

    Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.

    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Police say a gunman who barricaded himself inside a landmark restaurant in Savannah's historic downtown has surrendered....

    CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) -- Strong wind gusts will likely keep spreading a wildfire that has grown to nearly 10 square miles and prompted the evacuation of a historic Arizona mining town....

    Ballistics tests have linked the shooting deaths of two people along roadways in Mississippi, a source who has been briefed on the investigation said Thursday.

    Italy increased security Thursday at 14,000 sites, and assigned bodyguards to protect 550 individuals after a nuclear energy company official was shot and letter bombs directed to the tax collec...

    An American businessman jailed for more than four years in Dubai under suspicion of corruption has started a hunger strike to push for a trial and seek greater U.S. diplomatic pressure in his case.

    Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who is accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence.

    A European official says Ukrainian authorities are impinging on the privacy of imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

    Tanned and toned athletes in eye-popping outfits will compete for Olympic medals outside the British prime minister's famous Downing Street home, but it's government workers, not the U.K. leader, who will get the VIP view.