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As wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast, experts say fire tornadoes -- called firenadoes -- become a greater possibility.

Donald Sterling, the racist cretin who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, raised a series of interesting questions about Magic Johnson on Monday, during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “What has he done, can you...

Judge orders Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag to be hanged for apostasy and given 100 lashes for adultery, prompting protests.

A 15-year-old boy is charged with murdering a teenager who was stabbed to death in a west London park.

Police in Venezuela detain some 80 demonstrators who were marching to demand the release of those arrested in recent anti-government protests.

2 men arraigned in slaying of missing Camden woman police say was buried alive

South Korean prosecutors indict 15 over ferry disaster; homicide charges for captain, 3 others

A Chinese worker is killed and at least 90 others hurt as protesters attack a steel mill in Vietnam, amid anti-China tensions over the South China Sea dispute.

Missouri's Republican-controlled Legislature gave final approval Wednesday to legislation requiring a woman to wait three days after first seeing a doctor before having an abortion. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon has not said...

According to a new report by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Gabriel Weimann, terrorists are using social media for the same reasons most us do — quick, easy, anonymous communication.

A federal prosecutor warned a Manhattan jury Wednesday not to be “fooled” by handless hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri’s claims that he was just a “peacemaker” or “mouthpiece” for followers of...

(Reuters) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the idea of a swap of Boko Haram prisoners for schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamist group a month ago, Britain's minister for Africa said after tal...

A 34-year-old Texas woman pretended to be a high school sophomore for nearly an entire school year, fooling teachers, classmates and even the woman who took her in.

A drunken, unruly airline passenger groped three women.

Fast food workers are striking for better wages. Their leader explains why they need a raise.

Robyn Curnow talks to legal expert Kelly Phelps about the possible outcome of psychiatric testing Pistorius will undergo.

Footage may disrupt efforts to reassure visitors to Brazil that the upcoming World Cup will be safe It is probably the last image of Brazilian football that World Cup organisers would like to see, but a clip of armed gan...

The hotel staffer who recorded and released the security video that appears to show Solange Knowles assaulting her brother-in-law Jay Z after the Met Gala, has been sacked. The video of their fight was posted on celebrit...

The struggle to save the world's greatest communication network.

Earlier this week, one of my readers, Meshack Vallesillas, sent me a link to an article he posted on his own blog. It took my breath away.

A team of Soldiers belonging to the 450th Engineer Company, the 350th Eng. Co., and the 374th Eng. Co., moves through concealing smoke to enter and clears a building as one of the evaluated exercises for Sapper Stakes at...

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