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The world's oldest person has died in the United States at the age of 116, CNN reported.

The New England Patriots and Denver Broncos clinched American Football Conference division titles with victories over teams from Florida.

The New England Patriots and Denver Broncos clinched American Football Conference division titles with victories over teams from Florida.

Republican reservations have deepened about whether UN envoy Susan Rice should be nominated as US secretary of state, with senators demanding more answers about her role in the Benghazi affair.

Two more Republican senators expressed deep reservations Wednesday about voting to confirm UN envoy Susan Rice as US secretary of state without more answers about her role in the Benghazi affair.

Another Republican senator said Wednesday she would not vote to confirm UN envoy Susan Rice as US secretary of state without more answers about her role in the Benghazi affair.

Dolly Parton has denied longtime rumors that she is secretly gay. Dolly Parton has denied longtime rumors that she is secretly gay. The 66-year-old Parton, known as the Queen of Country Music, is promoting her memoir Dream More. In an interview with Nightline, Parton, who has been married to Carl Dean for 46 years, discussed rumors she is romantically involved with childhood friend Judy Ogle. Oprah Winfrey has also long been accused of having a lesbian relationship with her best friend, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King. ?Like Gayle, her friend, Judy, my friend, they just think that you just can't be that close to somebody,? Parton said. ?Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade ? We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved.? Parton added that when she started ?Gay Day? at her theme park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, she got t

The Supreme Court is expected this week to decide whether to hear an appeal to Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban. The Supreme Court is expected this week to decide whether to hear an appeal to Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban. The 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment put an end to the weddings of gay couples taking place in the state after the California Supreme Court legalized such unions. Defenders of the amendment have appealed February's U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring that the marriage ban violated the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. The high court is also expected to consider whether to hear appeals to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), parts of which have been struck down by appeals courts in Massachusetts and New York. DOMA denies legally married gay couples access to federal recognition. Several law professors told the Los Angeles Times that the justices may hesitate to take the Proposition 8 case, known as Holli

FedEx and United Parcel Service are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a probe of prescription medication sales by online pharmacies, the two US package delivery companies said.

US federal health inspectors said Monday they have uncovered serious problems at a second Massachusetts pharmacy run by some of the same people whose tainted drugs caused a deadly meningitis outbreak.

A Cray supercomputer at the US government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was named Monday the world's fastest, overtaking an IBM supercomputer at another American research center.

The New Orleans Saints handed the high-flying Atlanta Falcons their first defeat of the NFL season, the Saints defense holding firm in the waning minutes of a 31-27 triumph.

The 2012 US elections were conducted in a "professional manner," but "real concerns" remain, international observers said Wednesday.

This ends AFP's Live Report on the reelection of Barack Obama to a second term as president of the United States.

0418 GMT: There is silence in the hall of Romney headquarters as the results are announced. Some supporters begin to leave.

Polls closed Tuesday in 16 states including the populous states of Pennsylvania and Florida, where networks said the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was too close to call.

The death toll from a meningitis outbreak linked to tainted drugs rose to 30 as the number of cases climbed to a whopping 419, US health officials said Monday.

Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes on Sunday to spark Pittsburgh over the New York Giants 24-20 in an NFL game played with Hurricane Sandy's devastation as a backdrop.

Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes on Sunday to spark Pittsburgh over the New York Giants 24-20 in an NFL game played with Hurricane Sandy's devastation as a backdrop.

The motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 is being opened to the public, a spokeswoman said Friday.