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Tea Party activists gather on Capitol Hill in 2011. A surge in applications ...
President Obama expressed outrage Monday over the Internal Revenue Service's admission that it targeted certain conservative groups for extra scrutiny. By the time the president weighed in, members...
The wife of Li Yiqian, Yang Liming, sits in their house, which is plastered ...
Five years after the massive Wenchuan quake in China's Sichuan province left about 90,000 dead and missing, allegations are surfacing that corruption and official wrongdoing have plagued the five-...
A worker with The Empowerment Plan creates a coat that will later be donated...
Detroit is littered with empty warehouses — more than 7,000, by one estimate. They've become skeletons of the city's industrial past.But not this warehouse, where Jennifer Blake is feeding quilted...
"Payphone" by Maroon 5 is one of the songs covered on YouTube....
The online video sharing site YouTube is this generation's MTV. Artists like Gotye and PSY have found mainstream success after their videos went viral. Yet the number of cover songs — from toddlers...