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After first airstrikes, US drops new aid to thousands of Iraqis fleeing militant advance

The militants resumed their rocket attacks Friday shortly before the 72-hour truce expired, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestinians. 

It's Jaws vs. Bigger Jaws. A crocodile was caught crushing a bull shark to death in Australia on Tuesday -- proving that size really does matter. The 80-year-old croc, named...

A woman and man died after the car they were in was hit by a freight train in Gary early this morning, authorities said.

Today in celebrity gossip: Lindsay Lohan wore a beach vendor's child as an accessory while on vacation, Danity Kane split up, and Charlize Theron tried to get Tia Mowry banned from SoulCycle.

ISIS Islamist fighters are now a mere 25 miles from the Kurdish capital

Israeli tanks gathered on the the border with Gaza on Saturday (August 9) as explosions could be seen over the coastal enclave. Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza early on Saturday and militants fired se...

Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions between China, neighbors at Asia security talks

The president, addressing critics in both parties, asserted that the United States has a "strategic interest in pushing back" ISIS.

It didn't surprise experts that Chicago's water supply was not contaminated by an algae bloom toxin that forced officials in Toledo to issue a recent ban on drinking water from Lake Erie.It didn't surprise experts that C...

Interviews with multiple officials in the Obama administration paint a portrait of a president forced by the unexpectedly rapid deterioration of security in Iraq to abandon his longstanding reluctance to use military for...

Israeli attacks on United Nations facilities are repeating a pattern that an agency board of inquiry reported in 2009. Israel says it is addressing the issues.

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Prime minister of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic says move aimed at preventing humanitarian disaster.

A Michigan teen missing since Thursday was found safe more than 40 miles from home, but investigators are still trying to piece together what happened to the 18-year-old, police said today.

The BBC's Andy Moore spoke to trauma surgeon, Professor Chris Bulstrode, as he prepares to travel to Gaza as part of a team of NHS medical experts.

Russian middleweight Chudinov stops Bouadla in 3 rounds to successfully defend WBA title

Thousands take part in a peace march, shortly after rival militias clash in a suburb of capital Bangui.

A judge's ruling that the N.C.A.A. violated antitrust laws will prove revolutionary for a commercialized intercollegiate sports system that masquerades as an educational enterprise.

Forty-four people killed after tourist bus plunges into valley west of the capital Lhasa.

Just like al-Qaeda, ISIS is the secret love child of United States imperialism and the kings and sheiks of the Gulf states.

;Barry Burbank has your latest forecast. ;