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Details buried in a United Nations report indicate the Syrian military launched the chemical attack from the same ridges it used for firing conventional munitions.     

Now 47, and an inmate at the Dixon Correctional Center, Odle shares a credit in a new book by Hanlon, "Survived By One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer," a collaboration based on letters and therapeutic inter...

The cars recovered from Foss Lake in western Oklahoma may solve cold cases from the late 1950s and 1970. 

Federal judge clears way for government to seize 36-story building owned by Iran.

North Korea calls for new nuclear talks 'without preconditions,' but US, others, dubious     

South Korean protesters: passion, endurance, occasional violence in 'war without guns'     

In the first ruling of its kind in Japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of four of five children who were killed after staff put them on a bus that drove straight into the pat...

A Boston-area man who plotted to kidnap children, rape and eat them, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 26 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, according to court documents from the United States...

Thousands of tourists are preparing for evacuation from the resort city of Acapulco as tropical floods claims dozens of lives.

As overseas adoption becomes more difficult, more voices are pushing to reduce restrictions. That's a mistake, critics say.

CCTV footage shows the moment a man accidentally steps into the path of a speeding train ... and survives.

3 'self-defense' vigilantes killed in clashed with soldiers in western Mexico     

US Federal Reserve set to indicate economy back on track

The judge harshly criticized federal prosecutors for making anonymous comments on the Web site of a New Orleans newspaper before and during the trial.     

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Blockbuster shooter 'Grand Theft Auto V' sales surpass $800 million on first day in stores     

People know they have a right to know what the government is doing in their names. State secrecy is on the run, while American privacy, long rumored dead, is alive and kicking and wants the fight out in the open -- in th...

Without flood insurance, some in Colorado face heartbreaking costs after devastating storm     

Mexico floods kill 80, leaving thousands cut off in Acapulco     

Emergency teams are searching for hundreds of people missing after Colorado's deadly floods, though many are believed to be stranded in deluged areas.

Archeologists in Brazil find 200,000 items, including toothbrush thought to be emperor's     

Avoid government shutdown, national default, GOP House leaders say _ but also defund Obamacare