Smokers who keep smoking, and those who quit, will all gain weight over time, but those who smoked the most before quitting may gain more, a new study suggests.
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Two bodies have been recovered and rescue crews were expected on Friday to resume searching for a third person who went missing after a building was destroyed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Alaska, state troopers said.
WASHINGTON — Two pioneering women who completed the daunting U.S. Army Ranger school this week said Thursday they hoped their historic achievement would open doors for other females as the Pentagon opens new roles, including elite Navy SEALs, to women.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A teenage boy in South Carolina and a young girl in Florida were recovering on Friday from shark bites suffered this week in the Atlantic Ocean, the latest in a series of attacks around the world this year.
Nicolette Molina’s daughter Layla Murphy is fascinated with “Star Wars.” The 8-year-old found some of her father’s old toys around her Norfolk, Virginia home and immediately fell in love with that galaxy far, far away.
A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s first gray wolf pack since wild wolves disappeared from the state nearly a century ago was spotted in the woods in the northern part of the state, wildlife officials said Thursday.
Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington state as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions.
Spotify’s CEO has apologized for the company’s new privacy policy, which is pretty much the opposite of private. The new policy allows Spotify to track your location, collect your photos and thumb through your contacts. It can view your Facebook posts and share some of the information it collects with advertisers.
A gas line explosion at a New York high school on Thursday injured three construction workers, one critically, and badly damaged at least three floors of the building, authorities said.
A driving instructor riding in a Lamborghini was killed in a crash at a speedway attraction at Walt Disney World because the car was moving too fast and in the wrong direction, local media reported on Friday, citing a review of last spring’s accident.
Imagine working in a world the color of Irish coffee, where you cannot see much beyond your hand.That is the office environment of a U.S. Navy team this summer as it salvages a Civil War ironclad vessel in the Savannah River.
North Korea is amping up tensions in the region after apparently firing artillery at South Korean loudspeakers that are blaring criticism of Kim Jong Un’s regime over the border.
Two Wisconsin girls who are charged with attempting to kill a classmate to please the fictional Internet character Slenderman will face trial together on Oct. 15, a judge ruled on Friday.
When Rochelle Herman first heard Jared Fogle’s alleged off-color comments about young girls, she was so disturbed, she knew she had to do something, she said.
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