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A Russian sumo wrestler once dubbed "the world's strongest kid," who weighed 210 pounds when he was just 6 years old, has died at the age of 21, according to a report. Dzhambulat Khatokhov became a heavyweight sensation ...

Part II of a 2-part essay in defense of Rabindranath Tagore and Jana Gana Mana. The first appeared in Countercurrents in 2003. With the emerging fundamentalist intolerance and bigotry extending its ominious tentacles acr...

The tagline is "Trump: He's What's For America," a riff on the beef industry's "Beef: It's What's For Dinner" slogan.

The FBI is still trying to determine a motive behind the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville that injured at least eight people and damaged 40 buildings. Police have identified Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, as the ...

A disgraced Indiana school teacher got slammed with a four-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a student in his classroom when she was just 13 years old, according to a report. Eric Gerdes, 39, pleaded guilty in...

The senator's deal is criticized as a massive taxpayer-backed payoff to major campaign contributors.

A wild viral video shows a white man being smacked in the face with a can of Twisted Tea at an Ohio gas station after he repeatedly calls a black customer the n-word. The clip begins with the belligerent customer spewing...

A federal appellate court has sided with consumers in a false advertising suit against several major makers of grated parmesan cheese, sending the companies back to court nearly five years after a news story sparked a wa...

Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who went to Wuhan in February to report about the emerging coronavirus outbreak, was sentenced on Monday by a Chinese court to four years in prison after being charged with "picking fight...

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out lawmakers from both parties who have spoken out against tweaking the COVID stimulus bill to raise the value of direct payments to eligible Americans from $600 to $2...

A former special-education teacher from Oklahoma was charged with rape after being accused of sleeping with a 16-year-old student. Andee Lantz, 26, was arrested on Dec. 18 and allegedly admitted to cops that she had sex ...

As a COVID-19 vaccine rolls out across the U.S., top malls are likely to bounce back in 2021 but those in trouble may close more quickly.       

Food and Drug Administration's list of disinfecting products that consumers should avoid grows ever longer.

Investigators believe the Nashville bomber acted alone in plotting the Christmas explosion.

Black Hills Energy was working Monday night to restore service to 3,500 customers after vandalism damaged natural gas lines in Aspen, Colorado.       

A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.

It’s definitely no foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle! The evergreen, ever-buff movie star that is Sylvester Stallone appears to have joined the growing bandwagon of ungodly rich celebs heading to high-nosed and insanely...

A high school teacher charged with criminal sexual abuse after what she admitted was an inappropriate relationship with a student appeared in court Monday.

Ideally, if Democrats do their job up to and on Jan. 5, we will win both of Georgia's Senate seats, and secure a bare majority in both chambers of Congress.

When China first reported cases of coronavirus to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, it was described as a mysterious new strain of pneumonia. It didn't even have a name.

There's "a lot of buzz" about the past year's tech-led stock market gains setting the stage for a repeat of the turn-of-the-century bust of the dot-com bubble, notes a prominent Wall Street researcher. But there's one bi...

If I said "Totino's Fortnite Training Room" obviously that would be a nonsense statement that makes sense to nobody. And yet here we are, in the year 2020, where such a nonsense statement is not only not nonsense, but a ...