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WASHINGTON – All but wiped out in 2008, Republicans groping for a comeback strategy determined there would be no swift return to economic health under incoming President Barack Obama.
They soon also agreed privately to oppose his major legislation.
Over the next two years, they criticized, attacked, voted against and then attacked some more as...

Twelve local residents from Leader, Sask., posed for a calendar decrying the condition of a local highway. (Sask Highway 32 campaign)

A publicity campaign featuring rural Saskatchewan residents in the buff and posing along a stretch of pothole-damaged highway has paid off.

On Friday, people from Leader, Sask., and other communities along...

Blair River stands 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 600 pounds. His weight and his enthusiasm for the food at Chandler's Heart Attack Grill have won him a $100-an-hour modeling contract.

This week he shot a YouTube video commercial to promote the grill, which invites anyone over 350 pounds to eat for free.

River, who lives in Mesa and...

In the wake of a rancorous national election, the future's sent us a savior: a cyborg Abraham Lincoln. CyberAbe will appeal to the better angels of our nature with rousing rhetoric and a stovetop hat that transforms into a bazooka.

This mutton-chopped prezbot is actually the Audio-Animatronics Abraham Lincoln from the 1964/1965 New York World's...

MONTREAL - Canada was picked No. 1 in a global survey of countries with the most favourable brand, thanks to a boost from the Vancouver Olympics.

A strategy to put the country on the top podium was actually devised years before the Winter Games.

It involved having a Bollywood star carry the Olympic Torch; bringing an NBC sports reporter to...