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Self-affirmation may protect against the damaging effects of stress on creative problem-solving and performance under pressure.

For the millions of Americans with severe life-threatening food allergies, dining out can feel like a minefield.

It's practically unheard of in the United States and most Western countries. But it's a terrible occurrence in a culture where a woman's status and dignity is decided by her ability to provide a husband with multiple children.

A 12-year-old girl found hanged in her home left behind a suicide note that mentioned online bullying, according to police.

Tears flowed and hugs were traded on Thursday in an Oklahoma maternity ward as four nurses saw for the first time the baby whose birth they helped safeguard during a direct hit by Monday's tornado.

The eyes of the country will be upon Texas on Thursday.

Any Nigerian government victory over Boko Haram will be hollow unless it wins over a disenfranchised youth and roots out alleged Boko Haram sympathizers in the government, says expert.

Adding to what's becoming a lengthy list of run-ins with the law, New York police arrested actress Amanda Bynes on Thursday night after she allegedly tossed drug paraphernalia out the window of her 36th floor Manhattan apartment.

A Ugandan artist has created an incredible children's playground built entirely from trash.

The fuss over Apple's complex strategies to avoid taxes put the corporate tax code on display in all its convoluted glory this week.

Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.

After a bumpy ride, stocks in Japan closed with a small gain on Friday, recovering from a deep plunge the day before.

It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception.

With 200 shares of Apple in his portfolio, California resident Dave Kastener was thinking about going rogue. The self-professed "Apple fan" wanted to invest in Samsung.

An Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington has collapsed, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol said. Bridges and cars were in the water.

HOOVER, Ala. – Mississippi State continues to make Hoover Metropolitan Stadium its second home.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jonathan Quick saved his best save for the final minute, sliding deftly across his crease and snagging Joe Pavelski's shot from point-blank range to the grateful gasps of the Los Angeles Kings ' sellout crowd.