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How would you describe your preferred amount of facial hair? 5 o’clock shadow? Full lumberjack beard? (I know Kesha is here for that.) What about a patchy, light blonde, dirty ‘stache? If you’re not into that last ...

The parents of James Foley, the American journalist executed by the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, said they're trying to honor their son by resisting the urge to hate his captors and killer. Instead, they called...

Little is known about the man who killed journalist James Foley, 40, whose brutal death was depicted in a video posted online by Islamic State (ISIS) militants on Tuesday. But British Prime Minister David Cameron told th...

Vastly better than Stephen A. Smith's guttural, grunt-filled, long-winded #IceBucketChallenge video from this morning. Watch...

Jason Millar, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, spends a lot of time thinking about driverless cars. Though you aren't likely to be able to buy them for 10 years, he says there are a number of ethical prob...

Getting a Big Mac in Moscow is about to get a lot harder. Russia's food safety watchdog has temporarily shut down four McDonald's in Moscow for what they say are sanitary violations. The closures come amid worsening ties...

Peter Diamond, an MIT professor who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2010, told The Telegraph that, "Historians are going to tar and feather Europe's central bankers." Diamond told The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritc...

A friend of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to plead guilty Thursday to charges in connection with removing a backpack and computer from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the Boston Marathon bombing.

More than 600 people traveled to Switzerland for the "sole purpose of committing suicide" between 2008 and 2012.

Fighting in Central African Republic's capital kills Red Cross worker and injures at least 31, emergency services say.

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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn's new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publish...

Wearing your wedding ring while riding your mountain bike, playing sports, or doing a slew of other physical activities is uncomfortable, but showing up at home without one one could end up being far worse. The QALO Ring...

(Reuters) - Thailand's coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he hand-picked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with ...

Payroll Taxes are Pursued Aggressively by the IRS, with Personal Liability For Owners, Officers, and Check Signers. And Some Violations Mean Jail.

Hamas says that three senior military leaders are dead following an Israeli airstrike early Thursday in the Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports that Hamas sent a text message out to the media, stating that Mohammed ...

When a masked Briton murdered U.S. journalist James Foley on camera, he said it was in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets, and threatened to execute another American captive...

Novel software by Akselos drastically increases speed, ease of 3-D engineering simulations.

Astronauts collecting samples on the International Space Station have found traces of sea plankton, and are baffled as to how it got there.

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett attacked Democratic challenger Tom Wolf's plan to shift more of Pennsylvania's income tax onto the wealthiest taxpayers, saying it is skimpy on details and faces legal and political obstacles ...

There's been a lot of debate since the ALS ice bucket challenge started a few weeks ago. Many are debating its worth if so many people are simply dumping water over their heads and not making meaningful donations. But ma...

Spotify already tells users what their friends are listening to. Now it's expanding that idea to international proportions, thanks to a new tool. Serendipity records where and when at least two people start playing the s...