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According to reports, a long-term humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas may or may not be in the offing as soon as tomorrow. 

A Norwegian citizen who trained with a master bomb maker in Yemen and recently was added to the State Department's list of international terrorists  has been linked to the increased security screening of flights coming ...

South Korean police said Tuesday that they had found the body of a fugitive businessman wanted in connection with April's ferry disaster that left more than 300 people, many of them high school students, dead or missing....

While the appraisal industry has a long, sordid history of discrimination, and such bias still creeps into almost every step of the property assessment process today, it has been virtually invisible in recent fair housin...

Afghan officials say suicide bomber has killed 4 foreign security guards in Kabul

Fighting continued over the town of Nasir for the second day in the largest offensive since May truce.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a U.S. senator's lawsuit challenging a requirement that congressional members and their staffs to obtain government-subsidized health insurance through small business exchanges, saying...

Miami police officer Eduardo Perez fighting crime in the Cuban neighborhood of Little Havana. But Perez doesn't work alone - his partner is a horse named Panchito and the duo is fast becoming a firm favorite with busines...

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The creator of a vagina shaped kayak has been released, though she still faces prison time if convicted on an obscenity charge. 

A U.S. jury on Monday found a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber guilty of obstructing the investigation into the deadly blasts by removing a backpack containing fireworks shells from the suspect's dorm room.

A month ago, Ezra Klein explained why he's a pessimist about climate change. His explanation is compelling — our ineffectual national and international institutions really do handicap our ability to deal with this prob...

As the death toll climbed to a record high in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, social media users flooded outlets like Twitter and Instagram with pictures of the devastation. Some of the photos used in this article are not from...

Emergency medical workers who responded were suspended without pay as their hospital and the Fire Department review the incident.

Secretary of State John Kerry will be leaning heavily on Egypt, Turkey and Qatar -- which have deep divisions over the Islamic movement -- to help broker a cease-fire as quickly as possible.

A woman in New Hampshire was issued a $100 ticket after stopping in a highway median to help a group of stranded ducklings.

Israeli military officials said Thursday they have discovered at least 16 tunnels with 43 entry points since launching the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, providing the international community with a small glimpse int...

Florida smoker's widow: $23B damages is a message to Big Tobacco, even if verdict won't stand

Based on the industry's track record, the second-largest tobacco company probably won't pay the billions in damages it owes to a Florida widow

Human eyes don't know half of what they're missing. But the Chandra Observatory, with its x-ray vision, gives us a stunning peek.

Both sides believe a missile downed the jet, but determining whose missile will be tougher

The press reject facts that shouldn't be true