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Father's Day is just one of many enduring traditions that started in the boardroom.

Lawyers head into the second week of jury selection in the Trayvon Martin killing case, hoping to find six jurors to decide whether George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder.

Reformist candidate Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, garnering hope among the country's moderate and liberal youth for democracy and significant change. Thousands of citizens took to the stree...

The DRC's Lambert Mende says the M23 rebel group is trying to buy time around peace talks.

PLYMOUTH, Vt. (AP) -- A woman once described as the "First Lady of Baseball" is being lauded this weekend at the Calvin Coolidge historic site in Plymouth, Vt.

Pregnant Texas Teen Who Sued Parents; Teens Get Drunk, Parents Go to Jail?

A remote spot in New Zealand is the site for the first test of an imaginative bid to link billions across the globe to the web.

Facebook says it received almost 10,000 US government requests for user data in the second half of 2012 Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number...

Diocese of San Diego says it fears that the inmate, serving time for domestic abuse, could pose a threat to those at the El Cajon school after his release.SAN DIEGO -- A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her ...

A 21-year-old Army ranger from Dudley died during a training exercise in Georgia Thursday, a spokesman for the 75th Ranger Regiment said. Rangers found Private First Class Christopher P. Dona unconscious with no pulse on...

Earlier security forces marched into Gezi park, firing water cannon and tear gas at the crowds.

CNN's Arwa Damon is live from Turkey, where protesters are gathering in the streets.

Three people were shot in the Marquette Park neighborhood this afternoon, officials said.

The tension between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods reached a rocky impasse at the start of this weekend's U.S. Open when the two shook hands before teeing off. But the spectators at Merion are letting Garcia know they hav...

A 21-year-old woman died after she was hit by a car in the Bridgeport neighborhood overnight, according to authorities.

Two women have been arrested and a third has been identified in an attack on an MBTA bus in Boston in which the suspects allegedly threw bleach on a man's face and then robbed him, according to the MBTA Transit Police De...

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The Los Angeles Clippers may be going green. The Clippers and Celtics are negotiating a blockbuster trade that could include send Doc Rivers and Kevin Garnett to Los Angeles while shipping DeAndre Jordan to Boston, accor...

Two kidnapped Spanish tourists are rescued by police in Colombia, as two people suspected of trying to collect a ransom are held in Spain.

China's State Council orders firms in heavy-polluting industries to cut emissions by 30% in the next four years.

JAMISON CITY, Pa. -- Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days. The frighte...

In case you missed it, earlier this week, the novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he rebutted Frank Bruni's column "Sexism's Puzzling Stamina."