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Dashcam captures frightening situation after routine traffic stops goes bad

Leak is one of many from the plant wrecked by 2001 quake and tsunami.

Israel announced on Thursday that it would run for a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council for the 2019-2020 year.     

NASA has exempted the Maven mission from shutdown.

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- A University of New Hampshire forum about orgasms has drawn a lot of criticism -- and about 500 students.     

A minute's silence is to be held across Italy as divers recover another 18 bodies from the sunken wreckage.

The human rights group Amnesty International says the killings of schoolchildren in Nigeria show an absolute disregard for the right to life and education.

A woman killed by Capitol Police today after a high-speed chase through Washington that temporarily shut down the U.S. Capitol suffered post-partum depression following the recent birth of her daughter, the suspect's mot...

Allegations of rape surface after a man kills a pastor in Louisiana. CNN's David Mattingly reports.

Suspected hackers accused of global online attacks against firms that refused to process payments for WikiLeaks website.

A couple from Shandong Province tells Sky News how Chinese authorities terminated a pregnancy to enforce the one-child policy.

It is outrageous offenders who commit some "truly horrific" crimes are released early from prison, the Justice Secretary says.

Israel National Library to digitize Italian Hebrew manuscript collection, among world's best     

Gulf Coast residents brace for Tropical Storm Karen; hurricane watch in place from Fla. to La.     

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man convicted of murder after claiming he was just helping a motivational speaker kill himself won a new trial Thursday in a case that tests the legal bounds of assisted suicide.     

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) -- A California man has been charged in connection with a bank robbery in Biddeford, Maine.     

With the U.S. government shutdown and a threatened credit default, Tea Party Republicans are testing out a new system of national governance in which they get their way -- or else. But is this the beginning of a new Jim ...

A state of emergency has been declared

Our societies need a paradigm shift in what we value. We need to treat our environment and our planet with the respect that is essential for our survival as a species. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to alter...

Post-menopausal women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer significantly, a study has suggested.

Strategy aimed at combating high-profile violence that has alienated residents from their community play areasA recent spate of high-profile shootings at South Side parks has drawn attention to a little-publicized police...

Apple has been accused of kowtowing to the Chinese government by pulling from its China App Store a product enabling users to circumvent firewalls and access restricted sites.