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The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (Dover, $4). James' ghost story The Turn of the Screw famously reckons with the unreliability of human perception. But I find his late novella The Beast in the Jungle even more conf...

The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation's opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last year in overdoses. Now two states want to use the drug's powerful properties f...

President Trump is offering his voice in support of Roy Moore in Alabama.

More than 8,000 are sleeping rough overnight in sub-zero conditions to raise money to tackle homelessness.

The UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, ended a trip to Iran on Sunday with no announcement on the fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman who has been in a Tehran jail since April 2016 on spying charges.

Scores of Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators have clashed with security forces outside the US Embassy in Beirut over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The protesters ga...

The Trump administration is considering new sanctions to make sure Russia abides by the terms of a 1987 nuclear-arms treaty that limits intermediate-range missiles. Russian companies that helped develop a new version of ...

Colombian authorities are seeking to re-arrest a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar.        

Snow is possible for a couple games across the U.S. in Week 14 of the NFL. Colder air is in place across the eastern United States on Sunday. A few games will feature some chilly temperatures and across the Great Lakes t...

Offensive lineman Daniel Faalele, a 6-foot-8, 395-pound recruit originally from Australia, committed to Minnesota on Saturday night.

Officials say the Korean peninsula situation is the world's most dangerous security issue

Cellphone video and body-cam footage has emerged showing the moment that a man was shot and killed by a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy in Lauderdale Lakes.

Former soldier 'disgusted and betrayed' by FCO as his fiancee accuses Boris Johnson of hypocrisy following release of men A former British soldier who spent four years in an Indian prison has said he will never forgive t...

The sight of then-20-year-old Drew Doughty waving the Canadian flag was one of the more endearing images of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Canada just beat the U.S. in the gold-medal game, under immense pressure ...

The group wants 'national interest' to be put above politics with an EU Withdrawal Bill amendment.

The GOP tax plan on the cusp of becoming law diverges wildly from the promises President Donald Trump and top advisers said they would deliver for the middle class - an evolution that shows how traditional Republican ort...

Devil's Gate stars Milo Ventimiglia about a women and her son who go missing. The FBI are sent to investigate where they stumble upon an old farm h...

The first Jessica Jones Season 2 trailer has arrived, heralding the return of Marvel's best Netflix series. Moreover, while this initial trailer teases footage and a new story arc for Krysten Ritter's hard-drinking titul...

Using only mechanical elements like gears and springs, researchers have devised a way for unpowered plastic objects to communicate with your Wi-Fi network, opening the door to new possible applications. The post Scientis...

A leading activist in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, has likened her group's aim with her struggle to survive the atomic bombing …

Kuwait has announced new picks for Cabinet, with five out of 16 members hailing from the royal family, including the ruler's son who has been chosen to head the Defense …

UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson called for a 2018 title unification bout with Conor McGregor in an Instagram post Friday. According to ESPN.com's Brett Okamoto, Ferguson posted the following message after ...