It's not easy watching your own history repeat itself. At first, Jo--a 49-year-old mother of two from Georgia--thought she would be spared having to witness her children relive her long struggle with obesity. Indeed, when Jo's second child Renee was born 12 weeks early, weighing just 2 lb. 11 oz. , obesity was the last thing on Jo's mind. Today, things are different. Now 11 years old, Renee weighs 126 lb. and stands 4 ft. 5 in. ...

It's not easy watching your own history repeat itself. At first, Jo--a 49-year-old mother of two from Georgia--thought she would be spared having to witness her children relive her long struggle with obesity. Indeed, when Jo's second child Renee was born 12 weeks early, weighing just 2 lb. 11 oz. , obesity was the last thing on Jo's mind. Today, things are different. Now 11 years old, Renee weighs 126 lb. and stands 4 ft. 5 in. ...

Saturday night President Obama charmingly delivered a rather bleak message to the gay community on the eve of its latest march on Washington. In a speech to the world's largest gay political group, the Human Rights Campaign, Obama essentially said two things: I'm with you. But I can't do much for you. He said the first part with remarkable comfort for a straight man, the kind of effortless understanding that gay people don't always get at home, school or ...

Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul Turkey from midnight until dawn. His route takes him past symbols of wealth old and new: the ornate carved stone gates of a 19th-century Ottoman sultan's palace, the gleaming high rises in the city's rapidly growing financial district. Periodically, Sahintas stops his yellow cab not for customers, but for photos. Under a roaring overpass, he steps out of his vehicle and walks across the street to two ...

Tiger Woods admitted he was happy with his overall consistency as he landed the FedEx Cup despite missing out on the Tour Championship to Phil Mickelson in Atlanta on Sunday. The court said the abduction and torture in custody of Jestina Mukoko grossly violated her rights. Mukoko, the leader of Zimbabwe Peace Project, challenged her prosecution in an appeal to the country's Supreme Court saying state security agents had abducted her from her home during a dawn raid and ...

Tyra Banks has gone from supermodel to super businesswoman. With her successful TV talk show, "The Tyra Show," as well as her duties as host/creator and executive producer of "America's Next Top Model, it would seem that Banks has scant room left on her plate. But she recently launched an online magazine called "TYRA: Beauty Inside and Out." Banks talked to CNN's Larry King about her career aspirations, the "F" word and the story behind her ...

A quiet rendition of "Amazing Grace" capped an emotional candlelight vigil Monday night for slain Yale University student Annie Le, whose body was found on what was to have been her wedding day. Several hundred people turned out on the Yale campus for the vigil, crying and hugging. Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, said the 24-year-old graduate student in pharmacology "was as good a human being as you'd ever hope to meet." "She was also really tenacious and had a sense ...

The FBI has seized a two-page, handwritten letter of condolence sent by Jacqueline Kennedy to the widow of Robert F. Kennedy shortly after he was assassinated in 1968. The family contends the letter was stolen. "We're trying to determine who the legal owner is," said Mark White, a spokesman for the FBI. "There's still an ongoing investigation." The letter's path from the Virginia home of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, to a locked evidence vault in the Dallas field office ...

Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, has died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 115, according to the home where she lived and Guinness World Records said Saturday. Gertrude Baines passed away at the Western Convalescent Hospital at 7:25 a.m. (10:25 a.m. ET) Friday, Guinness World Records said. Born in 1894, Baines became the world's oldest person in January after the death of another 115-year-old, Maria de Jesus, from Portugal, Guinness World Records said. At her 115th birthday ...

Ellen DeGeneres is excited about joining "American Idol" as a judge, and hopes fans won't see her as the "evil" person who stole Paula Abdul's job. The 51-year-old comedian will replace Abdul when the singing competition resumes for a ninth year in January. Abdul recently left the show after eight years over contract disagreements. "I hope Paula [Abdul] is OK with it," DeGeneres told "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest on his radio show Thursday. "I don't want anybody to think I ...