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South Korea's Embattled Spy Agency Deflects Heat by Finding Reds Under Beds

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American touched down on Earth Wednesday after undocking from the International Space Station following 166 days in space.     

China Takes Energy Officials' Passports

The disgraced politician is rejected by voters and is reported to have given reporters the middle finger after his election party.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has increased security around a group of disputed islands it nationalized one year ago Wednesday amid strong protests from China, which also claims them and has been stepping up patrols of its own.  ...

The U.S. military's past experience proves ridding Syria of its toxic weapons is not a cheap or speedy process

The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Sno...

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Diana Nyad says she has Mother Nature to thank for completing her 110-mile swim     

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming the first black person to serve as speaker pro tem of the Alabama House,...

County administrators must come up with a way to fund and operate libraries in the future, or else commissioners will face cuts or a tax-rate hike again next year.

Lynn Teacher Behind Bars For Allegedly Running Down Ex's Girlfriend     

A young man was struck and killed by a commuter rail train in Norwood this afternoon, officials said.     

A Canadian national is arrested in Bogota trying to board a flight to Toronto with a phony pregnant belly filled with cocaine, Colombian police say.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call.     

With his new show Derek, out tomorrow on Netflix, Ricky Gervais is making the pitch that he's actually a kind person, despite his reputation for nastiness. But it's hard not to find Gervais's supposedly good intentions ...

COPAKE, N.Y. (AP) -- Police have identified a Massachusetts woman who was killed after her car crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a vehicle driven by a teenager heading to school in rural Columbia County. �...

Is progress a myth? John Gray thinks it is; David Hawkes believes there may be anti-progress(!). Scientific progress seems to be well established; the problem is with moral progress.

You can't say 'never again' until feelings are trumped by ferocity

House Republican leaders pulled their plan Wednesday to temporarily fund the federal government after rank-and-file party members said it sidestepped "defunding" ObamaCare -- further narrowing Congress' time to strike a ...

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Bruins have opened training camp less than three months after nearly winning their second Stanley Cup in three years.     

Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Share In September 11 Observances