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Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic won their quarterfinal matches at the French Open on Wednesday, setting up a much-anticipated rematch of last year's final.

Michelle Obama isn't quite as tolerant of hecklers as her husband is, if a late Tuesday confrontation is any indication.

An American soldier has plead guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civilians in a court hearing today where he is expected to publicly give his account of the massacre for the first time.

The social media portrait of Turkish protest has been a violent collage, all streets obscured by clouds of tear gas and pepper spray, and police officers spraying more of it in people's faces at point-blank range. But lo...

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every purpose under heaven."

Just 10 days out of the womb, Alex's mother, Beth Lehman-Brooks of Seattle, Wash., propped him up in front of an iPad for what she hoped was a good reason.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- In November 2012, after nearly a dozen times photographing the routine arrival and departure of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for his pretrial hearings outside a courthouse on a Maryland military post...

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A report from ESPN late Tuesday indicates that 20 Major League Baseball players, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, could end up suspended from the league -- for up to 100 games -- in what might be some of the bigg...

Hair was streaming (not a bun in sight), shades of violet costumes were modern and ombre-like, and the movement was spirited...

Clashes continue across Turkey, in the capital Ankara and in Izmir but the heart of the demonstration remains in Istanbul's Taksim Square, which has been the focal point of the unrest.

Editors' note: Mother Jones illustrator Zina Saunders creates editorial animations riffing on the political news and current events of the week. This week's cartoon takes you to the National Denier Service, a call servic...

Things are a little different around this blog, as of late. I've changed the name to SIN INC. Vice is my beat.

The aim of this short essay is to analyze America's chronic war habit, what its nature is, what sustains it, and what can be done to end it before it leads to America's destruction some time in this century.

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Chrysler has done almost everything right since Fiat and Sergio Marchionne took the helm in 2009. But the automaker made a dangerous decision yesterday when it refused a request by the National Highway Traffic Safety Adm...

Multiple top Obama administration officials have been using secret alternate email addresses to conduct government business, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Conservatives were already outraged by former Environmen...

A four-story building in Philadelphia collapsed this morning, potentially trapping people and injuring others.

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- An independent panel of scientists that spent two years reviewing the U.S. government's contentious management of wild horses planned to release a series of recommendations Wednesday to combat skyrocke...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- An Augusta martial arts instructor who has already pleaded guilty to child pornography charges is facing a dozen new charges after authorities analyzed his computer.

You can a tell a couple is in love by the way they look at each other, talk about each other, or the way they finish each other's sentences. But in the world of stock photos, there seems to be a ton of other ways couples...

Earlier this week we received a startling announcement from Ohio State University, where a professor claims to have taken a comprehensive look at the financial burden on companies that employ smokers. The average cost pe...