Posted: 6:44 AM They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds.

Posted: 6:37 AM Opponents of gay marriage have an unblemished track record in U.S. elections, chalking up 32 victories in 32 public votes.

Updated: 6:23 AM In a flash of campaign drama, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney are giving major speeches hursday from the same state, battleground Ohio.

Posted: 6:20 AM A suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives in a Damascus suburb on Thursday, wounding 10 people and damaging one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, Syria's state-run news agency said.

Posted: 6:18 AM One of Jerry Sandusky's accusers said he stayed quiet to keep going to Penn State football games.

Updated: 6:21 AM Lance Armstrong is facing more doping allegations just a few months after he thought he had finally put them to rest.

Posted: 5:45 AM Cain pitched the franchise's first perfect game and the 22nd in major league history, striking out a career-high 14 on Wednesday night.

Posted: 4:15 AM Street performers are back in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for their traditional summer entertainment.

Posted: 6:58 AM Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City.

Posted: 6:50 AM The man suspected in the killing of a Scott Co. food pantry director is expected to appear in court Wednesday.

Updated: 10:16 AM Berlin police on Wednesday released photos an English-speaking teenage boy who wandered into the city nine months ago saying he had been living for the last five years in the forest with his father.

Posted: 6:09 AM NASA is poised to launch its latest X-ray space telescope on a two-year hunt for hard-to-see objects lurking in the heart of the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Posted: 6:05 AM Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her.

Posted: 6:04 AM Coordinated car bombs struck mainly Shiite pilgrims in several Iraqi cities, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country.

Posted: 6:02 AM Jerry Sandusky displayed no visible emotion as more witnesses testified for the prosecution, one an alleged victim who fought back tears describing the famous assistant football coach at Penn State.

Posted: 4:17 AM Tennessee has been ranked among the best in economic development by a national publication.

Posted: 8:33 AM Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona.

Updated: 7:50 AM Commerce Secretary John Bryson is taking a medical leave of absence to undergo tests after suffering a seizure connected to two traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area over the weekend.

Posted: 6:09 AM If Google has its way, you won't need "Google.com" to do your searches. You can simply go to ".Google."

Updated: 6:29 AM Residents in Middleborough have voted to make the foul-mouthed among them pay fines for swearing in public.

Updated: 5:28 AM Thousands of "tween" girls jammed a vast square with their parents and screamed in unison throughout teen superstar Justin Bieber's free concert Monday night in historic center of Mexico's capital.

Updated: 5:21 AM Australians have overwhelmingly welcomed the final chapter of a mystery that has captivated the nation for 32 years: Did a dingo really take a baby that vanished from an Outback campsite in 1980?

Posted: 5:19 AM Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding.

Posted: 5:17 AM The first witness to take the stand against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said he regretted having kept the alleged sexual abuse a secret.

Posted: 4:20 AM A new lecture series will bring past and present government leaders to the University of Tennessee.