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The homeless man who accepted an award for Miley Cyrus at MTV’s Video Music Awards met the superstar at a Los Angeles nonprofit that aims to get kids off the street.

Hundreds reportedly killed as fighters storm the Tabqa base in northeast Syria, the army's last foothold in the area.

Services have been set for the nine-year-old boy who was fatally shot in a South Side backyard last week.

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On Sunday, the Nusra Front, an affiliate of al Qaeda, released U.S. freelance journalist Peter Theo Curtis, handing him over to United Nations personnel at the Israel-Syria border. Curtis, 45, was abducted in Antakya, Tu...

Japan is offering to provide anti-influenza drug for possible Ebola treatment

Stampede sparked by electrical wire during Hindu holy procession kills 10 in central India

Libyan militia from the city of Misrata say they've seized the main airport in the capital Tripoli. The fighters call themselves Operation Dawn. They say they captured the main airport from a rival militia that hails fro...

Ukraine marked its independence day with a military parade in the capital Kiev. A message of defiance to neighboring Russia, which Ukraine says is funneling weapons to pro-Moscow rebels it's fighting in the east. The sep...

British intelligence has identified the black-clad figure shown getting ready to behead U.S. journalist James Foley last week, a report said. In a grisly video, the figure who has become known as "Jihadi John," said the ...

The Israeli military said the Hamas official had been responsible for the militant group's financial transactions.

Believe it or not, last year's twerking incident had something to do with it.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Northern California near Napa Valley Sunday, injuring at least 120 -- 3 critically -- and causing extensive damage, including fires sparked by burst gas lines, in the largest tremor to rock...

The U.S. Navy released video on Sunday (August 23) showing sailors directing aircraft during flight deck operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Saturday (August 22) and Sunday. The Obama administr...

The doctors recall the chaos as 30,000 desperate Cubans and Haitians were detained between 1994 and 1996.

Some of the best actors in TV are hoping it's their night -- but most will end up disappointed.

The achievement gap between poor kids and wealthy kids isn't mainly about race. In fact, the racial achievement gap has been narrowing. It's a reflection of the nation's widening gulf between poor and wealthy families. A...

How safe is your toothpaste? A flurry of recent news stories about Colgate Total Toothpaste and triclosan, a chemical with a somewhat checkered past, may have you wondering. Triclosan is best known as an ingredient in an...

Approximately 90 percent of California residents don't have earthquake insurance, a particularly alarming number given that California is known for earthquakes.

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A prison riot turned deadly in the southern Brazilian city of Cascavel when rioters killed at least four fellow inmates, according to police in Brazil.

Mario Balotelli made most of the headlines prior to Liverpool's game against Manchester City in the Premier League, but it was a forgotten striker who ended up as the star attraction hours later. Stevan Jovetic scored tw...