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Did you know that while millions of people struggle to repay their student loan debt, the U.S. government is extracting massive profits? 

BOSTON -- Lawyers for mobster James "Whitey" Bulger said Wednesday they plan to appeal his August conviction on charges including 11 murders, less than a week after a judge sentenced the former leader of Boston's "Winter Hill" gang to two consecutive life terms in prison.

A behemoth Boeing air freighter bound for McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., is feared stuck after it landed Wednesday night at a nearby smaller commercial airport by mistake.The distinctive 747 - one of the largest cargo planes in the world - touched down safely at Jabara Airport at 9:38 p.

Say "wild" and "New York City," and few might fill in these blanks: a flock of feral turkeys causing a flap in a city that defines urbanity.

Many of the most popular Kennedy assassination theories have the trappings of a Cold War spy novel: political intrigue, colorful villains and labyrinthine twists and turns.

Legendary psychic Sylvia Browne, a mainstay of television and radio and the author of scores of best-selling books, died early Wednesday in a California hospital, according to her official website. She was 77.

CLEVELAND — Ohio's state House approved a broad "stand your ground" measure on Wednesday that would grant gun owners wider latitude to use their weapons to defend themselves. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House voted 62-27 to advance the bill to the state Senate.

The first three females ever to endure and pass the Marine Corps’ combat training course — nine grinding weeks that include “live fire events” and a furious, 20-kilometer, full-pack hike — graduate Thursday from infantry school in North Carolina.

Three people were killed Wednesday and two others rushed to a trauma center after they were all shot in the head at an apartment complex in northwest Houston, authorities said.

Illinois became the 16th state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage Wednesday.A massive audience crowded into the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum to see Democratic Gov.