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My wife and I worry about how China's bad air and food will affect our child.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisian authorities say a suspected religious extremist blew himself up while making a bomb in a home he was renting near the capital.

Many people, while they deplore Edward Snowden's acts of criminal espionage, welcome the debate he has inspired about privacy. Unfortunately, that's a red herring.

Mugabe claims reelection amid allegations of a compromised vote

Talk about a hangover

The site broke the news of the latest chapter in the Anthony Weiner scandal.

Here's an encouraging figure from last year about the imbalanced U.S.-China economic relationship: American exports increased to a record $110 billion, a gain of 6.2% from 2011. The wide range of U.S. companies that doin...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, secu...

Dairy giant Fonterra finds bacteria that may cause potentially fatal food poison in products including baby formula.

the July 3 military coup was not in response to calls for a second wave of the revolution as falsely presented by the anti-Morsi forces. It was a determined and well-orchestrated plot to oust the democratically elected p...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Three teens were charged with murder Friday in the brutal death of a 79-year-old central Minnesota woman who was ambushed in her house, forced to write a check to her attacker, choked, then stabbed re...

Games Industry International has a terrific interview with former EA chief John Riccitiello in which the ex-executive talks candidly about the video game industry, the rise of mobile gaming, and the future of AAA game de...

Pumping their fists and waving at cheering supporters, thousands of cyclists streamed into Bourne today as they finished the second leg of the 34th annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Defensive players don't come near New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady when he's wearing a red jersey at training camp.

A terror threat from al-Qaeda, Russian asylum for Edward Snowden, and Congress's unfinished business dominate the Sunday television talk shows as lawmakers take a five-week break.

The Canadian Football League's collective bargaining agreement with the CFL Players Association stipulates that CFL teams may not negotiate player contracts with agents who are not registered and licensed by the CFLPA. S...

It hasn't even been a month from the huge Comic-Con announcement that Batman will be in the next Superman movie and the rumors and speculation about casting are already hitting a fever pitch. And, as it turns out, the on...

Officials believe someone set fire to a laundry room in the management office of a subsidized senior housing complex in Ipswich Friday evening, State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan said.

BOSTON (AP) -- John W. Henry took a backward ballclub in a dilapidated park and transformed it into a two-time World Series champion that is one of baseball's model franchises.

Catholic medical organizations are buying secular, non-profit institutions in many parts of the nation. Ownership allows conservative bishops to impose their faith-based "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Hea...

The Coast Guard and Massachusetts Environmental Police rescued people from the water off the Cape and Islands in three incidents that took place within about one hour Friday evening.

The mother of a Hot Springs, Ark., inmate who is on the loose has been arrested on charges that she assisted in her son's escape from jail.