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Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff, 30, thinks there is a lot of terrible music out there, but not Taylor Swift. "There's a lot of junk. People have to spread out and find more interesting stuff, because they're not being fed i...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders should emulate the compassion of a grieving parent

Relative calm will be restored between warring Israel and Hamas Thursday, after the two sides agree a temporary cease-fire for humanitarian aid.

The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney follows a similar ruling in Northern California that has kept the death penalty on hold in California for years.

Two suspects in a bank robbery and one of their hostages were killed Wednesday after a car chase that ended in a gun battle in the central California city of Stockton. 

Hundreds of people have been told to leave their homes in Washington state, and hundreds more houses are threatened by a wildfire that has raced across two square miles of forest, forced part of the area's main road to c...

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, in a call to the Associated Press, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Millions face second day without power after storm paralyses the capital, kills 38 and destroys thousands of homes.

Connecticut judge sentences two men for providing material to support the Taliban through print and online publications.

The theme of "Here and Elsewhere," a new exhibition at the New Museum on the Lower East Side, is art "from and about the Arab world."

An internal FBI report obtained by The Guardian says that self-driving cars have the potential to be used as "lethal weapons" in the future. The report, written by the Strategic Issues Group of the FBI's Directorate of I...

Earlier this week, reports emerged indicating Microsoft may be about to go through their largest job cut in history, as an estimated 5,800 jobs were on the line. The reality of the cut, however, is much worse.

Taliban fighters fired volleys of rocket-propelled grenades at Kabul's airport early Thursday morning after seizing control of a nearby building.

I snuck into Kurdistan, in 2002, on an old smugglers’ route. There was no legal way to get there, so I’d flown to Iran, taken a second flight to its western border, driven a couple hours, signed a log book in a hut a...

Israel announced the start of a Gaza ground campaign after 10 days of aerial and naval bombardments failed to stop persistent Palestinian rocket attacks, but it signaled the invasion would be limited in scope.

Some flight routes takes planes over dangerous places

This story is a collaboration between Truthout and TomDispatch.com and first appeared on their respective websites. For Americans, it was like the news from nowhere. Years had passed since reporters bothered to head for ...

The largest federal health survey added questions relating to sexual orientation for the first time this year, giving the government its first large-scale data on the health of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual population.

"Chop Shop" is a gritty, new, web-based action series that follows the story of a Los Angeles-based car thief ring. The show premieres Friday on YouTube.

CNN's Jim Sciutto takes a look at the tense political situation between Russia and Ukraine and how MH17 might affect it.

Defence minister says objective of new military operation is to 'counter terrorism'.

It's been a bad year for the company