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Of all the tributes paid to Prince, from the president to the Empire State Building lit up in purple, one point can't be stressed enough: Prince made the world come to him. He was an exquisite freak who began on the marg...

To save the world from worse nuclear fallout, the Soviets in 1986 hastily constructed temporary sarcophagus around failed reactor

When the TV critic Andy Greenwald, who is 38, returned to his high school near Philadelphia last May to speak to students about his job, he wondered how it would go. After all, today's students are a digital generation w...

Three people are taken to hospital after a man with a rifle shoots at people walking out of a Wisconsin school late at night.

A judge sentenced a veteran to spend one night in jail for a probation violation, but the former soldier was shocked when the judge served the time with him. CNN affiliate WRAL reports.

From January 2017 on, all new buildings in San Francisco 10 stories tall or less must have solar panels as part of the 2020 goal of 100 percent renewable energy. Living roofs may be another choice. The post Go green or n...

Hackers associated with Ghost Squad and the Anonymous collective succeeded in launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the official Ku Klux Klan website. The post Hackers attack KKK and briefly bri...

North Korea says it successfully tested a submarine-launched missile, while its foreign minister tells AP his country is ready to give up further nuclear tests under conditions

Official says temporary measure aims to ensure Anbar's provincial capital is cleared of explosives left behind by ISIL.

Authorities say two officers are in stable condition and the suspect is dead following a shooting Saturday at a Walmart in suburban Phoenix

Pope Francis is praying that a "merciful" God will touch the hearts of those in Syria who have abducted Catholic and Orthodox faithful, including bishops and priests, so that the captives will be released soon. …

France's economy minister has confirmed the government supports French energy company EDF's nuclear power plant project in southwest England. …

Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, has recently announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2016. The report shows that its losses from Other Bets companies have widened to more than $800 million.

The Obama administration will likely soon release at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the attackers

A liberal women's group has held a special Passover prayer service at a Jerusalem holy site, drawing criticism from the site's ultra-Orthodox rabbi, who called it a "provocation." …

Among the 38,000 competitors, one will notch up a landmark, while an elite group of 12 will set their own extraordinary record If things go according to plan, Sunday should be a memorable one in the Finill household. Jul...

 Real estate investing has long elicited a variety of emotions, running the gamut from excitement to anxiety. When dealing with significant sums of capital, feelings of apprehension tend to creep in, especially regardin...

LOS ANGELES -- When Stella Adler opened her acting school more than 65 years ago, she probably couldn't have envisioned this. But classic stage skills have never been more important in pornographic films than they are no...

Somini Sengupta, a New York Times journalist born in Kolkata, talks about her book on India's youth 'bulge'• The End of Karma extract: 'I am not bound by my past,' the voice tells her, 'I make me' Somini Sengupta was e...

A renewed gun control debate has emerged in Australia amid a review of the National Firearms Agreement and questions whether the country should import a particular type of shotgun

In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on, in fact, that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That's why we've compiled a quick and dirty list of the...

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