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A brother and sister are behind bars after allegedly having sex in a tractor trailer parked in a church parking lot. Police say Christopher Buckner, 20, and her half-brother Timothy...

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The choreographed arrests were organized to push President Obama to stop the deportations of Central American children and keep families together. 

Nikki Sixx's ex sentenced on cocaine charge

Separatists to allow "humanitarian corridor" for encircled troops in Novoazovsk after intervention by Russian president.

Papua New Guinea volcano eruption leads to local evacuations and some flight diversions

US says that Russia "outright lied" over its presence in Ukraine, after Nato releases photographic evidence.

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement from the White House Press Briefing Room ahead of a meeting with his national security council in Washington, August 28, 2014.

Russia's president Putin calls on separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers

UN health agency: Ebola is accelerating in West Africa and could sicken as many as 20,000

BEIRUT -- The Islamic State group killed more than 160 Syrian government troops seized in recent fighting, posting pictures Thursday of terrified young conscripts stripped down to their underwear before...

A person trained to draw blood inserted the IV for the botched execution of a convicted murderer in Oklahoma last April, a prison log released on Thursday revealed, but gave no other details of what happened when the pro...

An autopsy on an Oklahoma inmate who died after his troubled execution was halted concluded that he was killed by the lethal drugs, but it doesn't explain why he writhed, moaned and clenched his teeth before he was prono...

Six plaintiffs are suing the Ferguson and St. Louis County police forces, alleging that the officers' arrests and use of tear gas and rubber bullets violated their civil rights.

New video shows a U.S. airstrike against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. The U.S. Defense Department says the attack took place on Tuesday near Arbil, the latest of several air strikes launched from the USS Geo...

Before we go off launching a new Cold War, or worse, a hot one, accusing Russia of aggression in Ukraine, consider the US history of military action in its own 'backyard' in the Caribbean and Central and South America --...

With its spiritual pose, the praying mantis is a wonder to behold. But behind its vaguely extraterrestrial features lies a ruthless predator.

The lumbering freight train known as "The Beast," a key part of the route for migrants heading north to the United States, rolled to an abrupt, unscheduled stop in the black of midnight.

Suspect may have brought young son as distraction to crime, cops say.

Armchair astronomers can enjoy a cosmic double play tonight (Aug. 29), with back-to-back webcasts featuring faraway Neptune and a close-flying asteroid.

More than 600 members of search and rescue teams were working in two destroyed villages.