Having fun at a party and then forgetting the names of who has just been introduced may be related. According to research conducted in the United States, good humor diminishes the ability to remember information. The team, led by doctoral student, Elizabeth Martin, University of Missouri, asked participants to watch a video. Half were given a video containing a stand-up comedy routine along with instructions... 

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, left, speaks about illegal immigration at an event in Arizona also attended by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. AP An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce – at times even stop – arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever... 

According to an article published by Forbes the American government has sent an unknown number of BigDog robots developed by Boston Dynamics to help the Japanese government in their attempt to stop a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant. “The United States government has dispatched an elite squad of radiation-hardened robots to reinforce overwhelmed emergency working battling the relentless... 

The Federal Reserve lent a Libyan state-backed bank billions of dollars during the financial crisis, documents made public on Thursday have revealed. The Arab Bank Corporation, which is today 59.3 percent owned by the Libyan government, borrowed in slices as big as $1.175 billion from the US central bank. At the time the bank was not majority owned by the Tripoli government; other shareholders included... 

Latest victim: Judge Judy Sheindlin had to stop her courtroom TV show on Wednesday after descending into nonsensical language. A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame. In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended... 

U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its competitors. Still, inflation is “going to be... 

A 12-year-old Staten Island boy was charged with felony assault as a hate crime for attempting to rip a religious head scarf off the head of a classmate on Wednesday, sources said. Osman Daramy attacked the female student outside the Berta Dreyfus Intermediate School in Stapleton about 1 p.m., the sources said. Osman allegedly punched and kicked the girl before trying to grab the scarf wrapped around... 

A judge takes two children who admitted raping a toddler away from their families. It was an emotional scene as the children, ages 7 and 9, appeared in Shelby County Juvenile Monday afternoon. The judge had some strong words for the parents. Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael says the boys admitted in court a month ago to raping a two-year-old girl in South Memphis. That happened in August. The boys... 

Alien home? The black spots represent 1,235 planets orbiting their suns. As a point of reference, the lone planet on the right below the top row represents our sun, with Earth and Jupiter as tiny black silhouettes. If aliens exist, these are what their planets look like, according to NASA. Astronomers at the U.S. space department have spent the last two years scouring the Milky Way for Earth-like planets... 

A most curious phenomenon of ‘gibberish’ speaking reporters sweeping North America has gained its biggest victim to date after reports that the entertainment giant known as Judge Judy had production halted on her highly syndicated show and was brought to hospital yesterday after she began speaking nonsensical words during a live taping. According to Hollywood reporting website RadarOnline.Com,... 

Infection: Officials are trying to discover how intravenous feeding bags became contaminated with bacteria after nine critically ill patients died and 10 others were sickened at Alabama hospitals. Patients were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags. Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died and the maker has pulled the product... 

An electron scan showsthe HIV-1 virus budding (in green) from a white blood cell in a laboratory. An HIV vaccine that could outwit the deadly virus could undergo human trials in as little as a year’s time, scientists say. The ‘mosaic vaccine’, which is being designed by an international team of investigators, works by being able to adapt to the virus as it mutates. HIV’s ability... 

Civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery is among the plaintiffs, who claim the state circumvented the typical legislative process in creating “super-majority white neighborhoods.” Suit says ‘super-majority white neighborhoods’ were created. The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy... 

A snapshot left at a so-called maternity house in California. The building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering... 

Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers. The billionaire real estate tycoon and star of “The Apprentice” created a stir on Wednesday when he said on “The View” that Obama must release...