President Barack Obama cast his ballot for the November 6 election on Thursday in his hometown of Chicago and encouraged others who could vote before Election Day to follow his example.

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Europe produced the greatest comeback in Ryder Cup history to reel in the United States and retain the trophy at Medinah Country Club on Sunday.

Trailing by 10-6 going into the closing 12 singles, Jo

The first man on the moon will be buried at sea, a spokesperson for Neil Armstrong's family said on Thursday.

"I suspect it will be a private service," spokesman Rick Miller said.

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A nurse in a US hospital ‘accidentally’ threw away a kidney from a living donor with medical waste and ruined it.

The kidney was removed by a surgeon and then inadvertently thrown away by a nurse.

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Giving babies antibiotics before the age of six months could cause them to be chubby children, according to a study published on Tuesday.

The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in the United States, killing six people, apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head rather than from police fire, the FBI said Wednesday.

About 1,000 people were evacuated from the airport in the US city of San Antonio on Wednesday after the Texas facility received a 'credible' bomb threat by telephone, a spokesman said.

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Actor Sherman Hemsley, who rose to fame in the 1970s as the wise-cracking father in the hit sitcom The Jeffersons, has died at the age of 74, police said on Tuesday.

An F-15 fighter jet was scrambled on Sunday after a small single-engine plane violated a flight ban imposed for President Barack Obama's visit in his hometown of Chicago, officials said.

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Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in jail for a $7 billion Ponzi scheme on Thursday, closing the book on the flamboyant ex-tycoon's stunning fall from grace.

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