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The United States has pledged to send 3,000 troops to West Africa, using its military muscle to battle the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola. "In West Africa, Ebola is an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. ...

Survivors recount the incident and how they all made it to safety.

Don't teach girls to cover themselves from the male gaze. Teach boys to look at something else.

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The parents of Jessica Ghawi, a young woman murdered during the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting, have filed a lawsuit against four internet companies, alleging that they "negligently and unlawfully" supplied ammunitio...

Ferguson protesters renew call to remove prosecutor, arrest officer in fatal police shooting

The most significant accusation in the seven-count indictment of Mufid A. Elfgeeh of Rochester asserts that he tried to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State.

"I don't think there's a family in this community that hasn't had a loved one die of cancer"

At the White House and on Capitol Hill, Washington is preparing for war. The accelerated campaign against Islamic State militants will include more airstrikes in both Iraq and - for the first time - Syria. And despite Pr...

Members of Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra man a checkpoint on the border crossing between Syria and Jordan. REUTERS/Ammar Khassawneh

Some people believe salt therapy may clear the lungs and purify the skin.

Yesterday the Bureau of Justice Statistics released the latest numbers on incarceration rates, and the headline news is that we're sending fewer people to prison. But there's an interesting wrinkle in the numbers that fe...

Joe Johns reports on the ways in which terror group ISIS is using technology and social media to recruit and raise funds

NASA will partner with Boeing and SpaceX to build commercially owned and operated "space taxis" to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, ending U.S. dependence on Russia for rides, officials said on Tuesday ...

The blast occurred near the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Kabul, when a driver detonated a car filled with explosives near a convoy of foreign troops. The blast killed three foreign soldiers, including one Polish nat...

Vice President Biden has apologized for using the term

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he used a poor choice of words when he referred to unscrupulous moneylenders as “Shylocks,” and a prominent group that fights anti-Semitism called it...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled House voted grudgingly to give the U.S. military authority to train and arm Syrian rebels on Wednesday as President Barack Obama emphasized anew that American forces...

I gave it back. I could have afforded it, but only just barely and it would have hurt. So after a little less than a month with a PlayStation 4 I returned it to its chemical-scented packaging and got my money back. Sony'...

Are you one of the millions of Americans who switched from old-fashioned sugar to Splenda or Equal in a bid to stay healthy? Well, eating all that saccharin may have been for naught: scientists say artificial sweeteners ...

Homicide rates have improved in the past 20 years, but there's a lot more cities can do, New York City's leading prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr. tells TIME

The Toronto mayor has said he won't seek reelection amid health problems