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Syria's Alawite minority has largely maintained its solid support for President Bashar Assad, a fellow Alawite. But recent developments, including the defection of an army colonel, suggest there are now cracks in the Alawite community.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul star in this modern tale of addiction that explores what happens to a young marriage when the one thing that once brought them together suddenly vanishes. Director and cowriter James Ponsoldt says the idea for the movie came from real-life experiences.

Fifty years ago, the world faced nuclear war as President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev faced off. Kennedy's clear thinking during the Cuban missile crisis helped the countries avert that terrible prospect.

This year, 36 Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders launched congressional campaigns, more than double the number from a record set just two years ago. "Asian-Americans are finally seeing that it can be done," says California Democrat Judy Chu. "We are finally bearing fruit."

Jayme Dyer didn't know what to expect when she first tried out the growing theatrical sport of women's arm wrestling. Then she started winning. This summer, Dyer donned her alter-ego, Ze Dirty Butcher, to compete with seven other women in the first national ladies arm wrestling championships.

At the 2012 Great American Beer Festival, 2,700 different beers were served up by some of the best breweries in the United States. For the event's 49,000 attendees, the festival is a chance to try new and unique beers; for the brewers, it's a way to make a name for themselves.

Felix Baumgartner lept 24 miles from the stratosphere and landed gracefully just more than nine minutes later in a desert in Roswell, N.M., Sunday.

Researchers have developed a clever new method to detect the chemical that causes the annoying itch. But urushiol isn't all bad. It's also behind the shine of beautiful Japanese lacquerware.

As acne bacteria develop resistance to antibiotic treatments, doctors turn to zit-fighting viruses.

Katie Deremiah and Ron Fitzgerald of Des Moines thought it was cool when their son was born on Sept. 10 last year — offering the sequence: 9, 10,11 Now they've had a daughter. She weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz., was born on Oct. 12 at 13:14 military time. That makes her sequence: 8,9,10,11,12,13, 14.