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It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 20 years since the brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers was videotaped and horrified a nation. Now, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the riots incited by his case, King looks back on the ordeal and his life since then in a new memoir, ‘The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption.’

It’s always exciting to see a young prodigy rock out on a musical instrument (especially since we can barely carry a tune ourselves). But six-year-old pianist Ethan Walmark is all the more impressive since he has Autism Spectrum Disorder and has been playing songs by ear since the tender age of four.

POLSON, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran with mental health issues, who was reunited with his sister last fall after 14 years, has gone missing again. Mona Storrud of Deer Park, Wash., tells the Missoulian that when she returned from volunteering at her granddaughter's school for two hours on Monday, Orin Storrud was gone...

It seems like the US has decided to give peace a chance.

Paul McCartney is one of the few singers in the world who could get both Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman to appear in one of his music videos. And appear the two A-listers did, using sign language to help convey the lyrics to McCartney’s song ‘My Valentine.’

Despite being born with no hands, Annie Clark is a pretty normal kid. She dresses herself, drinks soda from a can she opens, types on her computer and hopes to one day write a book about animals. Oh, and the seven-year-old just won a trophy and $1,000 in a national penmanship competition.

On Thursday, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, the world’s oldest living man and the third oldest man in recorded history, celebrated his 115th birthday. Happy birthday, Jiroemon! (It’s anybody’s guess how they fit that many candles on a cake.)

10-year-old Dylan Viale has a very close relationship with his grandmother Sherry, who is blind. The two walk dogs and go to the movies together, and recently went to a Lego event where they helped build a giant Lego Yoda. But because of her vision impairment, Dylan wasn’t able to share with his grandmother his love of video games. So the fifth-grader at Hidden Valley Elementary in Martinez, CA, d

Lemonade stands are usually symbolic of the carefree nature of youth. Six-year old Drew Cox, however, has had to grow up fast. That’s because his dad, Randy, was recently diagnosed with seminoma, a rare form of cancer.

America might be the land that allows its citizens the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but that does not make American the happiest nation.