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A string of tornadoes and severe storms left a trail of damage and flooding through Illinois on Sunday, killing at least six people, leveling parts of a town near Peoria, knocking down buildings in Grundy County and forc...

Signs of life re-emerge in Philippine typhoon zone as aid begins to flow     

Fight set to begin over opening Mexico's oil monopoly to private sector, including foreigners     

Fuel removal from Japan's crippled nuclear plant is first step toward full cleanup     

Francois Hollande, speaking on visit to Israel, says Iran must fulfil four conditions for nuclear deal to take place.

Officials said that 44 people were killed and over 100 were hurt in explosions -- some set off by suicide bombers -- that targeted public spaces and security checkpoints.     

Nicholas Mevoli was competing at Vertical Blue, a championship event in the sport of free diving, where he was attempting to achieve his second American record.     

George Zimmerman was arrested Monday afternoon in central Florida "after deputies responded to a disturbance call," the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Beware, New Yorkers. There are two standards of justice at play in this city: one for freakishly entitled celebs who run roughshod over innocent folk, and another for the rest...

We need to force the Administration onto the public record to document its claims. If the Administration wants to claim that civilian casualties from drone strikes have been extremely rare, and that those killed were mai...

The City Council in Tripoli, where the deputy intelligence chief was seized, called a general strike to demand that militias leave the city.     

A bomb attack Sunday against military offices in a suburb of Damascus killed at least 31 Syrian troops, including four high-ranking officers, an opposition group said.

Officials say the shipments will be vulnerable to attack as they travel past the ruins of a war that has raged for two and a half years.     

CAIRO (AP) -- Unknown gunmen shot and killed a senior national security officer in Cairo late Sunday as he headed to his office, the Interior Ministry said.     

NY state to buy out homeowners in Staten Island neighborhood hit hard by Superstorm Sandy     

Police say bodies of 2 adults and 2 infants are found in Boston-area home     

The wardrobe for Kerry Washington on 'Scandal' evolves like that of a real-life clothes horse     

The administration is considering allowing people to sign up for health care coverage directly with insurance companies to work around website issues, the White House spokesman said.     

Sen. David Vitter, David Bossie tell lawmakers to 'live by your laws'

Hyundai to beat other automakers, put hydrogen vehicle on the market sometime next year     

Boeing, Diebold, Deckers, Synchronoss and JinkoSolar are big market movers     

This week a controversy has developed over a new set of guidelines published by the Amer.Heart Ass'n & College of Cardiology for lowering cholesterol along w/a calculator meant to assess risks. Two Harvard Med.Sch.Profs ...