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For a country once ruled by the iron fist of the old Empire, America has been very receptive to British musical invasions over the past 50 years. In the 1960s,...

WASHINGTON -- Weighing in on the growing debate over amateurism in college sports, President Barack Obama said on Friday that universities bear "more responsibilities than right now they're showing" toward their athletes...

While in federal prison in 2006, Peter Bistrian, a former stock broker from Long Island in his 40s, claims he got involved with one of the most violent drug lords Philadelphia has ever known, Kaboni Savage. Soon afterwar...

A movement is underway to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with the first female face on printed U.S. currency. The list of women who the activists say should grace the bill includes abolitionist icon Har...

In what appears to be an execution site for the Islamist group, the partially mummified bodies were found beneath a bridge.

Levi's has announced it's saved 1 billion liters of water in its manufacturing process. That's enough to fill 400 Olympic-size pools. That's enough to make a huge water-footprint dent. That's enough to provide H20 for da...

The two top file-sharing sites in the world are The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents. Is there a better, safer alternative for file sharers?

New video obtained by ABC News today captures the terror on a Georgia train trestle during the shooting of the film, ???Midnight Rider.???

Florida police identified a female Spring Break visitor who appeared in a photo on social media with nothing but beads around her neck and surrounded by a group of men.

The first German bank has died from Austrian contagion.  Duesseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG (“Duesselhyp”), a tiny mortgage lender, has been seized by the Bundesverband Deutsche Banken (BDB), Germany's association of p...

During his time as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens and the head coach of the New York Jets, Rex Ryan has developed a reputation as one of the NFL's top defensive minds. However, since Ryan took the rei...

In major setback, woman tests positive in Monrovia nearly a month after last Ebola patient was discharged.

The Florida Supreme Court ordered a new hearing for Shimeek D. Gridine, who was 14 when he wounded a man with a shotgun during an attempted robbery.

UN says hundreds of children kidnapped by army and rebel groups over past month in country's escalating civil war.

When Amazon launched way back in 1995, the company's whole purpose was selling books. Today, it's a mega-company that sells hundreds of millions of products, makes its own tablets and phones, and plans to deliver packag...

Twitter just turned nine years old. On Friday, the company's CCO Gabriel Stricker posted a look back at some famous first tweets, including the first-ever tweet from CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, back when Twitter was ...

One of history's most brutal tyrants was a diagnosed schizophrenic on a mission to avenge his childhood years of repressed rage, according to American psychologist and Harvard professor Henry Murray. In 1943, Murray was ...

Scores of bodies found in mass grave in Damasak town retaken from Boko Haram, including some which were decapitated.

About 60 file boxes belonging to the accused killer were removed from a friend's cellar north of New York City.

Car bomb attacks targeted Kurds celebrating Nowruz new year festival in Hasakah, reports say.

The victims of the attack on the National Bardo Museum in Tunis were mostly foreigners, and their families have begun arriving to take them home.

A second man has been indicted for murder and other charges over a shooting in Las Vegas last month that left a mother of four dead.