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Tennis star Andy Murray survived a 1996 school shooting in Scotland.

The governor on Monday sidestepped a decision about whether a condemned inmate is too fat to be humanely executed by sparing him on the grounds that he had poor legal representation.

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In the aftermath of the Connecticut school killings, momentum was building on Capitol Hill for tightening controls.

LOS ANGELES — A judge has finalized Zooey Deschanel's divorce from her rocker husband of roughly three years. Court records show a judge finalized the actress' divorce from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard...

Hillary Clinton is widely viewed as the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic nomination if she decides to run, and that's prompted a lot of people to wonder how the right wing would react to a Hillary campaign. Have they ...

The Coast Guard was on the lookout Tuesday for a mysterious object that could be the second dock to make landfall from Japan’s tsunami. Reported five days ago by a fishing crew, the object hasn't been seen again e...

I'm looking for profit margin plays and you don’t find it in Apple, Microsoft, or even Google. You may find it in U.S. Steel, Peabody Energy, Walter Energy, Bank of America and Citigroup, along with Goldman Sachs ...

Estimated 2,000 protesters gather outside the presidential palace to denounce Islamist-backed draft constitution.

In this article I advocate for a strong response by liberals, moderates and conservatives with a conscience against the extreme right.

The study by the New York City health department, the largest to date, was released mere months after cancer was added to the list of sicknesses covered by the World Trade Center compensation fund.

In the quest to find answers for the Newtown massacre, many on the Right are trumpeting" "more guns!!" One pastor's sermon proposed more heavily armed home schools. Although it's been hailed as the most ludicrous rant fr...

Our ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, wrote a real nice letter to Obama saying she had decided to withdraw from consideration for Secretary of State because her nomination was going to be too contentious and would harm...

No 10 calls for urgent investigation into allegation that serving officer fabricated evidence against former chief whip Downing Street turned its fire on the Metropolitan Police when it called for an investigation into t...

Among gun control advocates' main target is a loophole that allows gun sales without background checks.

We are Newtown: Social media erupted with photos of people wearing Sandy Hook's school colors.

The national debt clock is spinning faster every year. At last check, it was approaching $16.4 trillion. Just four years ago, it was $10.6 trillion. The skyrocketing number is, to say the least, reason for concern for ...

PLO officials say Assad regime's attack marks 'historic moment' with former ally as 50,000 Palestinians expected from Yarmouk Thousands of Palestinians in Syria are fleeing Damascus after an attack on the country's large...

After earlier vague promises on gun legislation, spokesman says president supports restricting clips and closing loopholes Barack Obama hardened up his commitment to imposing restrictions on gun ownership on Tuesday, wit...

David Cameron's decision to speed up withdrawal endorsed by Barack Obama as Nato prepares for pull-out deadline Britain will withdraw at least 4,000 troops from Afghanistan next year as Nato begins a sharp pull-out from ...

In a hard-hitting interview Doreen Lawrence says the coalition has turned its back on the equality agenda The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has accused coalition ministers of squandering advances in race r...

In the first of our series of interviews with the newsmakers of the past 12 months, the mother of Stephen Lawrence talks about the day she got justice for her son, and her fears that race issues are being ignored by the ...