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LOS ANGELES – Conan O’Brien hit his head during a stunt for the “Tonight Show” on Friday and the production was halted, NBC said. The network declined comment on his condition or whether he was hospitalized. But a person close to the production said O’Brien was being examined at a …

KARACHI, Pakistan – Twenty women waiting to get free flour in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi died when the crowd around them swelled and a stampede began, a hospital official said. Mohammad Amin Khan of Karachi Civil Hospital said the death toll from Monday’s incident could rise. Footage from …

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as …

Orange, Calif. – Children’s Hospital of Orange County says a child received surgery on the wrong body part this week but no permanent harm was done. The mistake is the third of its kind in four years and state regulators are investigating. A hospital statement says one of its surgeons …

WASHINGTON – Some economists think the nation will break a 23-month streak of job cuts and add to employment when the government issues the December labor report Friday. A majority of economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters still think the economy shed jobs in December — a modest loss of 8,000. …

JOLIET, Ill. – The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would kill her, even telling a neighbor days before her disappearance in 2007 that “I’m already dead,” according to testimony at a hearing on Monday. The neighbor sobbed uncontrollably at times as she …

MANILA, Philippines – An American man wanted in the Philippines for allegedly killing a government official’s son in a road-rage shooting was critically wounded Monday when he opened fire at police officers trying to arrest him, officials said. Two police agents also were wounded when authorities swooped down on Jason …

Less than a month after British researchers said a woman’s G-spot may not exist, French doctors are saying the erogenous zone is not a myth after all, London’s Daily Telegraph reported. A study from King’s College London, which was published earlier this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, included …

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday morning, the heads of America’s intelligence services went to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on “World Wide Threats to the United States.” We won’t know what was said in the committee’s closed sessions until it’s leaked by …

Does anyone remember this pledge from Barack Obama? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: Absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. (END VIDEO CLIP) Instead, he’s doing nothing but adding to …