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The popular children's animated series "The Magic School Bus" only produced 52 episodes over four seasons in the mid-1990s, but that was enough to earn it a Daytime Emmy award and near-continuous syndication ever since. ...

According to teenagers, determining how cool you are on Instagram comes down to one number: Your "Cool Ratio." Introduced to us by a 12-year-old kid named Josh who was sitting next to the author of this post at a bus sto...

Roy Jones Jr. has allegedly been sending dick pics to a female boxer named Stacy Reile. He appears to have done something to make Reile angry, because she spent the last few days slagging him on her Instagram page, and n...

Miss Indiana Mekayla Diehl walked onto the Miss USA stage in a bikini and platform heels, and women all over the U.S. cheered a woman they felt looked "normal." Then she lost.

Caller ID works wonders when you're trying to dodge telemarketers, but you need to have the phone nearby. B Tod Cox decided to solve that problem with an LED screen you can set up in any room of the house.

A group of Boy Scouts huddled behind a Humvee on a quiet residential street.

President Barack Obama says no other developed nation would tolerate the level of gun violence plaguing the US, as he called for "soul searching".

The classic table-tennis ball gets a high-tech makeover with a new design and 3D printing to make it happen.

President Kiir and rebel chief agree to form transitional government within 60 days in move hoped to end civil war.

Utah father faces abuse charges; accused of chaining son, 6, to bed while man was at work

The number of cops shot and killed has risen to 23.

A US homeowner calls police after recognising the city leader from footage showing excrement being thrown onto his property.

Riot police called in as tens of thousands of students take to the streets of Santiago to demand education reform.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission says a woman who was attacked by her partner with a claw hammer was let down by a "consistent thread of low level performance" by South Wales Police officers.

In 1998, I visited the offices of Jame’eh (“Society”), the first independent newspaper in revolutionary Iran. Its staff had just published a story about a Revolutionary Guard commander’s secret proposal to behead...

The United Nations says it is willing to mediate in the territorial dispute between China and Vietnam, after both handed dossiers to Ban Ki-moon.

-- FIFA President Sepp Blatter predicted Tuesday that the World Cup will be "a great event" for Brazil which can unite the world. But he didn't mention the country's difficulties preparing for the tournament, the protest...

RICHMOND, Va. -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses GOP primary to tea party challenger Dave Brat in Va.

Drivers in cities such as London and Milan are planning to bring traffic to a halt at tourist sites and shopping centers to protest competition from the ride-hailing app

Troutdale, Oregon, authorities say a male teen fatally shot a student and wounded a teacher before killing himself at Reynolds High School.

By official account, the Pakistani Taliban had in recent weeks been engaged in peace talks with the government in Islamabad in what had been billed as an effort to quell Pakistan's long-running violence.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has found that even though Veteran Affairs benefit workers have spent years working on claims related to military sexual assault, their claims are being handled inconsistently, t...