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The Mormon church excommunicated the founder of a prominent women's group, a rare move that brings down the harshest punishment available on an adherent who created an organization and staged demonstrations in a push for...

Sunni Iraqi militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, on Sunday took control of the western Iraqi city of Rutba, which lies 90 miles east of the Jordan border.

The Border Patrol has picked up hundreds of tots, including 95 under age 1, who crossed from Mexico with people other than their parents over the past year, according to...

Troops on Monday surrounded Yim so closely in the forest about 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the border outpost that they could toss him a mobile phone to talk to his father. Yim, who still refused to surrender, had ammuni...

Tensions run high at an annual festival in China that has become a flashpoint between animal rights activists and those who defend eating dog meat as a tradition.

A father and daughter weren't going to just sit there when they discovered their home was being burglarized.

Funeral for fourth Palestinian killed in West Bank takes place as Israel steps up operation to find missing settlers.

Black BananasElectric Brick Wall Drag City Jennifer Herrema, a graduate of the renegade art-noise band Royal Trux, seems to be getting younger as time goes by. Echoing Sky Ferreira's 2013 album Night Time, My Time, Herr...

A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who went missing more than a week ago in northern India has been found dead in a ravine after she reportedly slipped while jogging and fell several hundred ...

Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed on charges of reporting false news and aiding a banned group.

Top Malaysian court upholds ban forbidding non-Muslims from using "Allah" to refer to God

The Border Patrol shelved plans to fly nearly 300 Central American illegal immigrants to California from Texas late Sunday.

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Education activists gathered in Chicago this May for the 11th Trinational Conference In Defense of Public Education where teachers, students, and community supporters from Mexico, Canada, and the US continued to build a ...

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he needs the time to focus on principal opponent, Gov. Rick Scott.

Captain James Tiberius Kirk, William Shatner IRL, would like to (not-so) humbly request that he be unverified on Twitter because too many "nobodies" sport the hallowed blue checkmark these days for his taste.

It takes a special person to join Mensa.

What had been a mystery in Orange, NJ sounded like a scene out of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the 1986 John Hughes movie about a high school student played by Matthew Broderick who skipped school but used his comput...

It already seems like a quote that the American Secretary of State John Kerry wishes he could take back: On Sunday, just after he met in Cairo with with newly elected Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Kerry confir...

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- As Kurds inside Iraq exploit the chaos gripping the country to press for the establishment of an independent state, one key player is casting a wary glance at this development: the Turkish government,...

Fighters associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Sunni militant group laying siege to large swaths of land in Iraq, attacked Iranian border guards in the town of Qasre Shirin last week, according to Iran...

After years of legal wrangling, the Obama administration released a memo Monday that provides the legal justification for the drone killing of an American citizen living outside the grasp of military or police authoritie...