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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...

Girls as young as 11 can get e-cigarettes easily from shops, friends, and parents, public health officials in Wales warn.

Sky reports from Cameroon, where Islamists are spilling over the border from Nigeria to recruit young boys to their cause.

At least nine people have died and 27 are missing after a boat overloaded with Indonesians capsized off Malaysia, officials say.

China hands down lengthy jail terms to three anti-corruption activists who had called for officials to disclose their personal wealth.

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...

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...

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...

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.

Gregg Marcantel is a former cop who spent a career putting away criminals, and he decided to put himself in solitary in Level Six to live among the worst of the worst inmates.

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

Tens of thousands of paedophiles are using the so-called dark net to trade images of sexual abuse, an investigation by BBC News indicates.

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....

Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Mont.) is offering to be a different kind of politician if he runs for president in 2016 — and as revealed in a new profile of him by National Journal's Marin Cogan, Schweitzer is willin...

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.