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Actress Melissa Gilbert has revealed she briefly dated Tom Cruise before he became famous. The former “Little House on the Prairie” actress, 49, has been open about the celebrities she dated in the past, but for the first time she’s talking about her short-lived relationship with the “Top Gun” star.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has passed a resolution condemning the NSA’s mass surveillance, pushing back heavily on the actions of the security apparatus of the U.S. The resolution contains strong language in favor of privacy, the broad protections of the Fourth Amendment, and limited government.

There is little evidence to suggest that healthy people benefit from taking vitamin D supplements, BBC News reported. In a study published in the Lancet, researchers carried out a meta-analysis of 100 trials analyzing the effects of vitamin D supplementation in the adult population .

First three months of pregnancy are vital for heart health of children in later life, reveals a new study. Researchers from Erasmus University Medical School have found link between baby’s poor growth in the first trimester of pregnancy and heart health complications, later in life.

A Knoxville waitress says she is still in shock after a seemingly normal customer tipped her $1,075 on Wednesday night. Her coworkers say the generous gratuity proves good things happen to good people. Khadijah Muhammad showed up at her job at Cheddar’s on Clinton Highway on Wednesday afternoon and provided her typical solid service with a smile. Service is something …

Food claiming to contain Norwegian whale meat is being sold illegally at a major European food and agricultural fair, campaigners have said. Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) and marine protection organisation MEER eV said they found the dish of m inke whale meat, served smoked with blueberry jam, at the Berlin Green Week fair in Germany following a tip-off.

While products like curved televisions, 3-D printers and driverless cars garnered the most attention at the big CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, there were plenty of video game-related products worth getting excited about. From virtual reality (VR) headsets and wireless controllers for mobile devices to “cloud”-based PlayStation titles and souped-up gaming PCs, here is a closer look at …

Nightly news anchor Chet Curtis passed away yesterday after almost 50 years of reporting in Boston and losing his battle to cancer. He is best known for co-hosting the weekday news magazine show “chronicle” on WCVB with Natalie Jacobson. From the 70’s to the 90’s TV ratings sky-rocketed as this married duo brought the news to their homes.

The brother of a man who died after collapsing during a run in a New York City park has died days later, also while jogging. The Daily News says 60-year-old Peter Berry collapsed and died while running in Central Park on Sunday. His half-brother, 68-year-old Rynn Berry, went into cardiac arrest during a New Year’s Eve run in Prospect Park. …

The head of the Met Police has told Heart the death of a 16 year old who’s thought to have taken ecstasy is a tragedy. Daniel Spargo-Mabbs was taken to hospital in the early hours of Saturday 18 January 2014 after going to an illegal rave at an industrial site in Hayes. Police were called at about 4am by paramedics …

We’ll all be cured of Facebook soon. At least, that’s the conclusion of a new Princeton paper published this month on the Arxiv server that modeled the social network’s popularity over time as if it were an infectious illness. The conclusions may sound hard to believe—the scientists predict Facebook will lose 80 percent of its user base by the end …