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"Bronx Boys" captures the joys and pains of growing up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the U.S.

Medicins Sans Frontieres health workers disinfect protection clothes and boots outside the isolation unit at ELWA hospital during the visit of Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola David Nabarro (not picture...

As Ebola outbreak accelerates, Sierra Leone hopes to slow infections down with 3-day shutdown

Same-sex couples may experience more domestic violence than opposite-sex couples, a Northwestern Medicine review of research suggests.

As LeBron returns to Cleveland, so does the hairline from his Cleveland days

Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma hit paydirt Friday when his company launched the biggest IPO ever. But Ma isn't your average executive

More than 400 people have been evacuated from Serbian towns because of flooding following heavy rainfall in the east of the country.

Scenes of the aftermath of Hurricane Odile in Mexico's luxury resort town of Los Cabos. A local Walmart was not only battered by the storm -- but has been just about stripped bare by looters.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become "a privatized version of the NSA," as it collects, stores, and indexes people's data. He made h...

CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke with journalist Mohammed Salih about the women fighting ISIS or the Islamic State.

After approving aid for Syrian rebels, senators left for the fall campaign, leaving a broader debate on the extent of American military action for another day.

Congress sends Obama bill to cut big backlog of analyzing DNA evidence in rape cases

As the White House debuts a new zero-tolerance sexual assault campaign, UW-Milwaukee fraternity brothers have been linked to intoxicated party-goers with memory lapses and color-coded X's on their hands.

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Numbers are key to the power asymmetries that exist among black residents in Ferguson

Awards that honor the occasionally wacky ways of science handed out in ceremony at Harvard theater.

Police say attempted drug transaction, shooting preceded Phoenix airport terminal's lockdown

Somehow Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has managed to convinces over a dozen esteemed big screen actors to play rape victims, cult leaders, delusional mothers and more. Here are the best Emmy-nominated roles.

U.S. President Obama praised Congress for backing the Administration plan to arm Syrian rebels. "I believe we are strongest as a nation when the President and Congress work together," he said after the Senate voted 78-22...

Glasgow has voted for breaking from the United Kingdom, giving its backing to independence by voting 53.5% "Yes" to 46.5% "No". Turnout in the area was 75% with "Yes" winning by 194,779 to the "No" campaign's 169,347. Th...

Polling stations closed in Edinburgh on Thursday (September 18) evening after a day of voting in an historic referendum on Scottish independence. Voting ended at 2100GMT with surveys suggesting Scots were almost equally ...

An astonishing 86 percent of eligible votes to came out to vote on the referendum, preserving the 307-year-old union.