Thirteen-year-olds are the meanest people in the world. They terrify me to this day... because 8th graders will make fun of you but in an accurate way. They will get to the thing that you don't like about you. They don't even have to look at you for long. They'll just be like, 'Ha, ha, ha, ha...
A Statistics Canada survey has found low turnout rates especially for people with kids under the age of five, with single parents the least likely to cast a ballot.
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AP - U.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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AP - Looking around at the tens of thousands of people waving American flags and cheering, Army Maj. Rich Radford was moved that so many braved a cold January wind Saturday in St. Louis to honor people like him: Iraq War veterans.
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AP - A brush fire fueled by 82 mph wind gusts burned more than 20 homes Thursday and forced thousands of people to evacuate their neighborhoods before firefighters stopped the flames' surge toward Reno.
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Frigid temperatures and wind chill warnings have people bundling up across Western Canada, while people in parts of Ontario and Quebec are dealing with snow and freezing rain.
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I love alcohol, man. Some people call alcohol a drug, too. Some people say that, 'Alcohol's a drug.' Not me, I call it a vitamin. 'Cause whatever your deficiency is, alcohol will treat it.
AP - America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" has been dealt another setback to his immigration enforcement efforts by a federal judge's ruling that bars deputies from detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they're in the country illegally.
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Most of the people who are racist to me are white, and it's very tricky to try and be racist to white people. What am I going to be, like, 'Oh, I'm Kumar? Well, you're the lead in most movies that come out.'
AP - Security forces fired tear gas and clashed Monday with several thousand protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least 24 people and has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt's military.
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AP - Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes.
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One of the men who rushed toward the burning plane crash in Richmond, B.C., Thursday said he didn't think twice about helping people he was sure were trapped inside the aircraft.
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Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.
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