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If you’re one of LinkedIn’s 150 million users, you might want to change your password — the business networking site has allegedly been hacked, and millions of log-in credentials may have been compromised.

Kevin Hillery, a 22-year-old man who was paralyzed last year after a tree fell on him, made history yesterday when he became the first-ever paraplegic to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. Way to go, Kevin!

Although she still has a long road to recovery ahead of her, Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student battling flesh-eating disease, reached a milestone over the weekend when she spoke for the first time in weeks.

Matt is an elementary school boy in Colonial Hills, OH. He has spastic cerebral palsy, a disease that causes physical disability and impairs movement. But when Matt’s school had a field day, he was determined to not let his disability stop him from doing what everyone else was doing.

A California judge has prosecutors scratching their heads after she allowed what they say is a dangerous criminal to remain free before trial as long as he reads at least an hour a day and writes book reports.

What state leads the entire planet in throwing people in the slammer?

Sara D. Davis, Getty images President Barack Obama has made history again today for publicly announcing his personal support of same-sex marriage. Obama told 'GMA' anchor Robin Roberts, “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, s

Seventeen magazine is a Bible to many adolescent girls, so the words and images contained within the pages carry serious influence. That’s why Maine teen Julia Bluhm is petitioning the publication to include at least one unaltered — as in no Photoshop, no airbrushing — spread in each issue moving forward.

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point will release some of the 6,000 documents that were seized in last year’s raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, resulting in his death one year ago Wednesday. This is the first time the general public will have access to the al Qaeda leader’s papers.

Fortunately, no one was injured in this 727 crash, done purposely for a TV show on the Discovery Channel.

Merle and Patricia Butler, a retired couple in their 60s from the small town of Red Bud, IL, stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their share of the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency in the wake of a giant tornado, which hit Wichita particularly hard late Saturday night. Miraculously there are no major injuries reported so far.