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An 80-year-old Japanese adventurer, Yuichiro Miura, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

The Texas deputy shot three times in March while chasing a paroled Colorado inmate suspected in the slaying of Colorado's prisons chief will be heading back to work this weekend and said he is "ready to go back to it."

Engagement photos have a reputation for being stuffy, posed and cheesy. But soon-to-be-married couple Howard Jiang and Dawn Yang set out to challenge that notion. On Wednesday, Reddit user Kyle Stoldt posted his friends'...

British authorities are debating whether to raise the country's threat level one day after a British soldier was hacked to death by suspects shouting jihadist slogans in southeast London.

There's a happy ending to the story of a dog, found alive in the rubble after a massive tornado devastated Moore, Oklahoma

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed Thursday. Detective David Holmes said the department has had the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing.

China's key commodity imports like oil, copper, iron ore and soybeans all dipped into negative territory year over year in April.

One outstanding question is how transparent the Obama administration will be about drone strikes in the future.

Pocket-dialing 911 leads to first-degree murder charge against South Florida man

Congressional and administration sources confirm that IRS director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave. Lerner came under fire this week when she chose to invoke her Fifth Amendmen...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was kidding when he said that should Anthony D. Weiner be elected New York mayor, "Shame on us," the governor's office said the next day.

A white box covered in Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric in the Netherlands. A Cor-Ten-clad volume cantilevering over a glass shop in Pittsburgh. A house in Tokyo composed solely of glass and small platforms of white steel...

Obama addresses Guantanamo, deaths of four Americans in drone strikes

According to multiple outlets, the IRS administrator who first revealed and is perhaps central to the scandal at the agency, has been placed on administrative leave. With pay.

Despite the utter devastation left in the wake of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday, the deadly storm, in many ways, helped show how far scientists have come in providing communities early tor...

WASHINGTON -- A tea party rebellion by several U.S. senators blocking progress on a the federal budget may be working for them, but not for their fellow Republican lawmakers -- even ones who mostly agree with them. Tensi...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were:

The smartphone era has given us pocket computers with countless powerful features, but they still take lousy photos. The reason an Instagram is inferior to what you see with your eye has to do with the megapixel myth.

All season on "Mad Men," Stan Rizzo (Jay R. Ferguson) has been getting attention for his facial hair. But there is another side of the gruff "Mad Men" character: the one who pines after Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and even we...

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Some 300,000 people have fled fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of 2013, the UN's top aid official Valerie Amos warns.