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Nearly 25 years after a news magazine declared that an epidemic of genital herpes threatened to undo the sexual revolution, a new study finds an encouraging decline in the percentage of people infected with the herpes virus. Back in 1982, a Time cover story headlined “The New Scarlet Letter” sounded …

BALTIMORE – Republican Michael Steele called Thursday for a higher minimum wage and more federal action to fight poverty at a fundraiser headlined by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. Steele, Maryland’s lieutenant governor, told a crowd of about 300 at a posh evening reception that the government should put more focus …

NEW YORK – ABC newswoman Elizabeth Vargas and her husband, singer Marc Cohn, are parents again, of another boy. Vargas and the baby, named Samuel Wyatt, are “doing incredible,” said ABC representative Alyssa Apple, in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Wednesday. Vargas and Cohn’s other son is 3-year-old …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A homicide bombing in the north and street battles hundreds of miles away in a Shiite holy city in the south claimed 16 lives Tuesday, demonstrating the tenuous security in Iraq as the U.S. focuses on curbing sectarian violence in Baghdad. Nine people died in the suicide …

Thanks to all FOX Fans who entered for chance to win a copy of Juan Williams’ new book “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It!” The contest question was: Juan Williams has said that …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangel, a senior Democrat in Congress and the dean of New York’s congressional delegation, said Wednesday he’ll retire if the Democrats don’t retake control of the House this year. “I’m a poker player and I’ve had good hands all night long. This is all in,” Rangel …

BERLIN – Suspects in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners “apparently” had some contacts with Germany, a senior German official was quoted as saying Saturday. “Apparently there were some contacts by the suspected attackers with Germany — we are checking these contacts,” August Hanning, a deputy interior minister, …

PASADENA, Calif. – The flamboyant, Israeli-born rocker Gene Simmons has sent a televised message of support to am Israeli soldier seriously wounded in fighting in Lebanon, calling him his ‘hero.’ Simmons, 57, founded the heavy metal band Kiss in the 1970s and became famous for wearing white and black face …

LONDON – Heightened security in the United States and Britain could boost demand for executive jets, a sector expanding with more models, greater range, and cheaper seats on planes once the preserve of the super-rich. Analysts say a suspected plot to blow up transatlantic airliners flying from Britain to the …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Thousands of Australians rallied in the southern city of Melbourne Wednesday in a protest against new labor laws they claim make it easier to fire workers. Melbourne, headquarters of Australia‘s trade union movement, was brought to a halt by the protest marking three months since parliament passed …