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She's a mom on a mission. This assault-rifle-toting blond patrolled the grounds outside an eastern Ukraine kindergarten Tuesday. Looking more like the star of a playground action flick than a...

Alan Dershowitz on misleading media coverage of Israel, Jill Lawrence on immigration reform, Thomas Friedman on Gaza, John Taylor on monetary policy, and Anna Marie Cox on voter ID laws. 

GAZA/JERUSALEM

Many residents of Gaza City said they were tired of the bombings by Israel and the cycle of war, but were steadfast in support of an end to economic restrictions by Egypt and Israel.

An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed four children — all members of the same family — and wounded several others on a Gaza beach in front of a hotel packed with foreign journalists. The first shell hit around 4 p...

Airbus has a seat concept that looks like an apparatus of torture rather than a comfortable perch for passengers.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attacked the Obama administration late Tuesday after the White House said a top political aide to the president would defy a subpoena and not appear at ...

Authorities evacuate almost 150,000 people and shut down Manila as typhoon Rammasun surges through the capital.

WASHINGTON -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who became a crusader for immigration reform after entering the US illegally as a child was detained by Texas Border Patrol agents for eight...

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide ended, world leaders are still lamenting so little was done to stop the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people. Leaders including former U.S. President Bill Clinton say if they h...

A detainee described the act as a conscientious objection

In a look back at how a friendship ended in murder, here is a timeline of events of leading up to and after Skylar Neese’s death.

In these 6 interiors, interior designers and architects elect to make bold and colorful design moves. By making dramatic statements with bright color combinations, the spaces come alive with creativity and uniqueness. 1....

(SENECA, S.C.) -- Some residents in northwestern South Carolina say they found bags of candy on their street containing a piece of paper asking them to join the Ku Klux Klan. Residents in an Oconee County subdivision fou...

Remembrance of the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square of 1989. Recalling not just the symbolism which has lived on, but the human beings involved in the iconic moment.

FARNBOROUGH England

ISIS, the militant group that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria, has distributed a recruiting video using Andre Poulin, a Canadian who converted to Islam and later died in battle.

Heaps of bricks. Mangled cars. Scattered debris. Residents of a small town in eastern Afghanistan are still assessing the damage from Tuesday's deadly car bombing. The car exploded as it sped through what was then a crow...

Men walked on lunar surface 45 years ago. Must we go back?

Autographed glove Lou Gehrig gave boy while playing catch some 80 years ago sells for $287,500

Republicans dislike Muslims more than practitioners of any other faith, according to a new Pew poll. The survey asked respondents to rate various religious groups on a "feeling thermometer," from 0 to 100. The results: R...

What happens to carbon -- and other solid materials -- when the pressure is even greater, such as what exists in the cores of Jupiter, Saturn and giant planets beyond the solar system? The world's largest laser hopes to ...