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A woman who was attacked by a man in Boston in September grabbed something before she slipped into unconsciousness -- a wallet that included an identification card with the name of Edwin Alemany in it, according to Bosto...

The whistleblower reportedly wants temporary asylum in Russia on the grounds that if he went back to the US he would be tortured.

A piece of street art by Banksy showing two children playing with a "no ball games" sign is removed from a wall in Tottenham, north London.

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Cleveland kidnapping suspect is sentenced to life in jail plus 1,000 years

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News of overthrown president's alleged help for Hamas in 2011 attacks comes as street showdown looms between Muslim Brotherhood and opponents The overthrown Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, is under investigation for a...

Prosecutors, attorneys in Ohio kidnapping case to update judge on plea deal talks

When Donna Hines's children were growing up, she would cut out every newspaper and magazine article she came across that chronicled some tragedy and tape them to the refrigerator in their Westborough home. They called it...

Our world is so full of disasters waiting to happen. Here's the opposite: a godsend to which we may wake up one day soon. Cold fusion works, but it's still too touchy and unreliable for commercial use. A ragtag army of e...

In a normal court case, there are lawyers on both sides. But when the secret FISA court is deciding whether to approve the collection of phone records on 300 million Americans, only one side gets a lawyer. In fact, there...

WASHINGTON -- There hasn't been a government shutdown in nearly two decades, but senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill are finding trickier-than-usual obstacles in their path as they try to come up with must-do legislation to...

In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces." So who exactly are those associated forces? It's a ...

Mohammed Brahmi shot dead with weapon used to kill secular politician Chokri Belaid in Tunis six months ago Mohammed Brahmi, the leftwing Tunisian opposition figure gunned down in front of his house on Thursday, was kill...

Sea level is rising today, but a long, long time ago sea levels dropped to alarming, but hard to pinpoint, levels. Researchers have a new estimate of how low seas can go.

In all the talk of smartphone saturation, Samsung is gradually pulling ahead of arch rival . New industry figures from Strategy Analytics show that Samsung shipped 2.4 times more smartphones worldwide than Apple in the s...

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A new, nonprofit insurer participating in Connecticut's health insurance exchange has decided to drop its rates.

Leading the way in renewable energy has been one of Scotland's success stories in recent years, creating economic growth and jobs.

An antique vehicle traveling near Zion National Park in Utah overturned on the last day of an international Model T club's annual tour, killing a woman from Minnesota and injuring three other people.

Kuwaitis are set to elect a new parliament for the second time in less than a year, amid a boycott of the poll by some opposition groups.