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Illinois parents took legal action against their son’s bully, suing a boy and his parents on their son’s behalf. Parents Matthew and Deveri Del Core filed the law suit, claiming a fellow fourth grader at a ...

Iraq has renewed its plea for help and formally asked the U.S. to launch airstrikes in the region to fight off the Sunni Islamist group, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which attacked the country's largest oil ...

President Obama met with Congressional leaders on Wednesday to share his view of the crisis in Iraq, to discuss what his administration's response might be -- and apparently to remind them that he doesn't need their perm...

(Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday the United States would work with its allies to "impose further costs on Russia" if Moscow failed to use its influence to s...

Residents say the mass water cut-off of this vital service is especially unjust in a city already struggling with high unemployment, a poverty rate near 40 percent, and a foreclosure crisis that has devastated and displa...

KIRKUK, Iraq -- The conflict in Iraq has taken a new turn, with the entry of Sunnis who are taking up arms to fight alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and are beginning to attack the Kurdish army in the...

(Reuters) - Hong Kong holds a controversial "referendum" on democracy on Friday, a prelude to an escalating campaign of dissent that could shut down the former British colony's financial district and further anger China'...

Lawmakers in Luxembourg, the least populated European country, approved same-sex marriage on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The country, whose prime minister is openly gay, will also allow people of the same s...

A 14-year-old, who investigators said may have been teased by the boy who was stabbed, was arrested in the attack at Intermediate School 117.

A nuclear power plant becomes a theme park, twin tornadoes touch down and beachgoers take in a bomb blast.

Donald Sterling's estranged wife will ask a probate court judge Thursday to issue an order protecting witnesses from possible intimidation from Sterling, a source with knowledge of the situation has told CNN's Brian Todd...

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(Reuters) - A man convicted of killing his wife and her 5-year-old son nearly 30 years ago was executed at Florida State Prison on Wednesday, the third person to die by lethal injection in 24 hours across the U.S. South....

Voting on unofficial referendum on election process starts Friday.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared Wednesday night on Fox News, to elaborate on his recent Wall Street Journal column lambasting President Obama on the situation in Iraq — only to have Fox host Megyn Kelly conf...

Crown prince ascends to Spanish throne in no-frills ceremony aimed at showing he's in tune with his countrymen.

The agency said it would lower or eliminate some fines for failing to disclose offshore accounts, while tightening other requirements.

McCarthy chosen today as majority leader by House Republican Conference.

The CIA has revealed it once considered creating and using a very different type of weapon in the fight against terrorism: a doll.

They're called Gilly's Catastrophic Crunch and Lazy Sunday, and they both look delicious

As the country once again teeters toward sectarian warfare, we asked reporters from The New York Times -- now on other beats, in other parts of the world -- which of their stories from their time in Iraq have been resurf...

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