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I recently moved to a new city and transitioned onto a new beat, so I've been meeting a lot more people than usual for the past few weeks.

Chrysler giveth and Chrysler taketh away. On Tuesday, the Detroit-based automobile manufacturer ordered that the complete collection of educational donation Dodge Viper SRTs must be crushed within two weeks. It...

Treatment could end need for daily pills

The writer has turned again to fiction. But will her politics get in the way?     

With Moscow's move into Crimea, Beijing has a tricky line to toe concerning national sovereignty

A New Jersey family heads to court today with the teenage daughter facing off against her parents in a battle to get them to pay for her schooling and living costs even though she's 18.

Early this morning the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it blocked a ship carrying advanced weapons from Iran to Palestinian militants in Gaza, suggesting that Iran and Israel aren't going to bury the hatchet ...

Desperation and hunger forces South Sudanese civilians to continue to flee, even to war-stricken Darfur, UN says.

An inquiry into the conduct of agency employees began after lawmakers complained that the C.I.A. was improperly monitoring the work of staff members of a Senate committee.     

TEHRAN -- In black chadors that cover them from head to toe, the women shuffle forth like a procession of nuns, occasionally whispering a few words and furtively taking snapshots with the reverence due a sacred place.

"Armed men of uncertain allegiance," the New York Times called them in a dispatch from Simferopol, on February 28: "Their military uniforms bore no insignia and it was not clear who they were or who was commanding them."...

Chipotle Warns of Climate Change Guacpocalypse

Europe and Russia both have plenty to lose in the standoff over Ukraine

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is "the most qualified person in the country" to run for president in 2016 -- that, according to his mother Barbara Bush.

Celebrities go for the au natural look!

Over the weekend, the National Zoo welcomed its second litter of lions this year.      

By Corrie Pikul From head to toe, it's full of surprises.

Arizona state senator who plans to run for open US House seat comes out as gay

STOWE, Vt. (AP) -- A week after the Winter Olympics came to a close, possible future Olympians from around the country are competing in the USSA Junior National Cross-Country Skiing Championships.     

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel suggested that he had listened to President Obama's plea to sign on to a framework being drafted by Secretary of State John Kerry.     

It rained in Los Angeles. No kidding, I was shocked too. Three days without so much as a ray of sun, this transplanted Brit was beginning to feel right at home -- wet and dreaming of a sunny day.