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Just days after the release of two band members from Russian prisons, the political activists known collectively as Pussy Riot continue to make headlines and spark controversy.

LAS VEGAS -- The show is called “Piece of Me,” and that’s exactly what it delivers -- no more, no less.

Former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback Drew Bledsoe is selling his home in Bend, Ore. for $9.95 million according to Pursuitist. The rustic-style home sits on 10 acres of land in a gated community. The home has seven bedrooms, ...

Hiring is one of the most important things an entrepreneur will do to grow her company. For a small business, each new hire has a tremendous impact and influences the company's culture far more than a new hire at a 200- ...

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Charges have been filed after the slaying of a pregnant 17-year-old girl who was fatally shot on Christmas evening in south suburban Dolton, authorities said tonight.     

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Attacks across Iraq, including a suicide bombing targeting soldiers on patrol and a drive-by shooting, killed at least 14 people Sunday, officials said. The day's deadliest attack happened in the northern...

Bikes generate power and regrets shredded as Times Square preps for New Year's Eve bash     

Demonstration comes as Israel reveals names of 26 prisoners to be freed as part of ongoing peace negotiations.

Each year, new financial scams pop up in which unsuspecting investors get fleeced by crooks and con artists. Five years ago, it was Bernie Madoff. This year, it was a...

Directors of a state-financed theater in Moscow received a call from authorities threatening their jobs if they screened a documentary about the activist group.     

It's good news, bad news for Google. A federal appeals court agrees to rehear the Street View case but also affirms its earlier ruling that tech giant violated wiretap laws when collecting data for Street View.

Common sense is no replacement for science; plenty of "everyone knows" knowledge has had its legs cut out from under it by a well-designed study. Nevertheless, some research turns up results that don't exactly shock and ...

A Long Island landscaper will receive a lump-sum payment of $779,106 after stumbling on the lucky ticket last year. 

Here's how it works when a big company believes that its power is in its girth: They enter this bizarre world that leads them to believe that what comes from their PR organs is enough to float their troubles away. It's a...

A growing chorus of international agencies is calling for South Sudan's warring factions to cease hostilities.

Israel announced Saturday that it will release 26 Palestinian prisoners over the next two days in a step aimed at "resuming the diplomatic process," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

A measure that was signed into law on Thursday virtually bars Moscow from building monitor stations on American soil that critics feared could be used for snooping or worse.     

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The African Union's commissioner for peace and security has announced that a contingent of Rwandan peacekeepers will deploy to the Central African Republic, where nine other peacekeepers have been ...

More than 500 Chinese lawmakers accused of election fraud have been forced from office, the country's official Xinhua news agency reported.

A raid by Iraqi security forces on the home of a prominent Sunni member of Parliament on Saturday morning in Anbar Province set off a two-hour gun battle that left the lawmaker's brother and five guards dead, along with ...

A fire broke out in a passenger cabin as a ferry loaded with more than 1,000 people sailed across the North Sea from Newcastle, England, to the Netherlands on Saturday, a spokesman for the shipping company DFDS said.