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A response to Slavol Zizek's "Mandela's Socialist Failure."

NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan came under attack on Wednesday, a military spokeswoman said.

Teens are shunning synthetic marijuana, but smoking more of the real thing.

John Beliveau II is first convicted in multimillion-dollar bribery scandal that has ensnared six US Navy officials.

Blunt-spoken judge who issued NSA ruling often bucks executive branch     

At least 75 people were killed, the South Sudanese interior minister said, but Reuters put the figure at at least 400 dead and up to 800 wounded.     

Drivers Face Fines For Not Clearing Snow Off Cars     

This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates. A live hand grenade has reportedly been discovered Wednesday afternoon in New York City. A bomb squad is en route to the scene in the Rockaway Beach section of Queen...

Former "juicy girl" describes being forced into prostitution.

Zach Galifianakis's 2013 Between Two Ferns holiday special has jokes about movies from 1999 (The Cider House Rules), 2006 (Snakes on a Plane), and 2012 (The Campaign).      

Federal regulators have fined Harvard Medical School $24,036 for repeated animal welfare violations in its care of monkeys used in research, an unusual penalty for an academic institution.     

Singapore will deport 53 foreign workers and issue criminal charges against 28 others for their involvement in a riot on Dec. 8 in the Little India precinct, which was the country's worst in more than 40 years, and stirr...

Ben Bernanke is exiting the Fed after a rocky 8-year term. CNN's Maggie Lake looks back on his tenure.

The mother of a Dorchester man who Aaron Hernandez allegedly murdered in June has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the former New England Patriot.     

Kemba Walkers scores 24 as Charlotte Bobcats beat Sacramento Kings 95-87     

BROOKLINE -- Faculty members and parents at the prestigious Park School are reeling following the arrest of a long-time Latin teacher on multiple charges of indecent assault and battery of a child under the age of 14 and...

A gunman and another person were killed during a shooting Tuesday at a medical building at Renown Regional Medical Center, said Tom Robinson of the Reno, Nevada, Police Department.

On March 5, 1976, a Baltimore man named Michael Lee Smith robbed a woman named Patricia McDonough. Smith drove off in a late-model Monte Carlo, which McDonough described to the police. After the robbery, he began making ...

The second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history will be up for grabs Tuesday night -- and it's even larger than it once appeared.

He played a huge part in propelling Bradley Wiggins to Tour de France glory but now Michael Rogers is in the dock on doping charges.

In Broward, 65 percent of secondary schools posted top grades, while 59 percent of Miami-Dade high schools earned As.

Our month-by-month retrospective of 2013 continues with May, when Pharrell Williams took over the world and Iron Man 3 crashed into theaters.