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A video that claims to show a Swedish police car involved in a drag race has been taken out of context, say local officers.

It is a matter of indisputable fact that the U.S. Executive Branch has over the past 50 years been responsible for bombing, shooting, burning alive with napalm, blowing up with cluster bombs, burying alive with 500 pound...

A Washington state man told his father in a jailhouse call that he killed his 3-year-old

Last week, the City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. It's a remarkable story, especially for natives of the state, like me, who have watched Detroit slowly ...

"The Telling Room," by Michael Paterniti, focuses on the passions and disappointments of an artisanal cheesemaker in the highlands of Castile.

Inside St. Mary's Hospital in London a royal baby is soon to be born. Outside, hundreds of people are clamoring to be the first to know about the birth

Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch asked twitter followers if they had pictures of the best moment of their lives.

Gunmen armed with RPGs and mortars raid Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons, as series of other attacks kill 13.

A newly appointed Boston middle school principal, hoping to inspire her staff to take risks for success and to learn from one another, extensively plagiarized a Forbes Magazine column on leadership in her first memo to t...

What if the Russians had beaten the US to the moon?

Investigators are trying to figure out why Rosy Esparza fell to her death.

Martha Fernback died following a cardiac arrest after taking what she believed was MDMA before falling ill.

Homes damaged and almost 300 injured after quake measuring up to 6.6 magnitude A strong earthquake struck a rural part of western China on Monday morning, killing at least 20 people and injuring 296, according to the loc...

Right after Joanna Hernandez and her friend were robbed at gun and knife-point, the thieves said they were sorry.

To sabotage the SEC's case for securities fraud, Paolo Pellegrini audaciously lied under oath.

The brother of one of James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged victims shouted out in rage this morning that Bulger's partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, was lying about him on the witness stand. Flemmi apologized, saying he ...

In order to protect women and children, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is going to announce a set of measures designed to curb Brits' appetite for porn. Sometime around the end of this year, those living in the U.K. w...

Last Thursday, July 18th, was the second annual NationalJournal event, Women 2020, an event targeted as celebrating progress on how women are changing the world. They had a great turnout with an audience of about 650 peo...

In a shocking moment of unscripted cable television on Monday, a vestigial sexist feudal institution found a brief respite from repudiation. "I can't believe we finally, after all this waiting, know that we have a boy," ...

George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, has emerged from hiding to rescue a family trapped in an SUV.

Nas doesn't usually perform multiple concerts on the same night, but April 30th was a notable exception. The Queens-born rapper wowed a crowd with a string of hits from his classic, Illmatic--and followed with another se...

America's iconic (if unrealistically-proportioned) doll is no longer the most popular one in the toy store. Barbie's sales dropped 12% last quarter -- the fourth quarter in a row the Mattel-manufactured doll posted disap...