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Somewhere in these mountains of Algeria, east of Algiers, a Frenchman may be held kidnapped. He was snatched Sunday while driving through the mountains near the village of Ait Ouabane. His abductors are the Caliphate Sol...

(Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) will go into next year's parliamentary election in Myanmar with no candidate for president and might even support a former general from the pro-military ...

With a coffee cup in hand, President Barack Obama offered a less-than-formal salute Tuesday to a marine standing guard as he exited the presidential helicopter, Marine One.

The first, of course, is getting them to sleep and in the process, saving what little sanity remains. And once the cry-it-out or Ferberizing or Weissbluth-ing is complete, you move onto food.

Drugs don't just kill nearly 39,000 Americans each year--they kill them young. That's the grim takeaway of a new chart by drug treatment website withdrawal.net, which plots the number of Americans killed by various drugs...

Baghdad might be in the hands of ISIS today if U.S. President Barack Obama hadn't authorized airstrikes last month against militants now known as the Islamic State group, Secretary of State John Kerry said amid criticism...

Chef Emeril Lagasse shot to fame as the host of a popular Food Network show that encouraged amateur chefs to try their own hands in the kitchen. But despite being one of the most recognizable celebrity chefs in the count...

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza has been sentenced to spend the next eight months in a community confinement center in San Diego, but one of President Barack Obama's harshest critics is still smiling aft...

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US pledges to destroy stockpiles of anti-personnel landmines, except those used to defend South Korea.

The religious cite is apparently in violation of a city law about parking spaces

Jesse Matthew Jr., already a "person of interest" in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, is now charged with "abduction with intent to defile," Charlottesville police said Tuesday evening. ...

Residents in the Syrian town of Kfar Daryan emerge from their homes to assess the damage inflicted by the first U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Islamic militants. Video obtained by Reuters shows the aftermath. Locals say f...

U.S. Navy video showed the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Philippine Sea launching Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) against Islamic State targets on Tuesday (September 23). The United States and its Arab allies bombed...

Israeli security forces released video on Tuesday (September 23) of a raid earlier in the day that killed two Palestinians, blamed for abducting and killing three Israeli youths in the occupied West Bank in June, an inci...

"Welcome to the future," Greg Shuff, owner of DryHop Brewers in Lakeview, said as he approached his brewery's new toy.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group have committed to help Americans cut 20 percent of the calories they get from soda through changes in the marketing, distribution, and packaging of their products. The ...

Do you find the taste of alcohol to be pleasant, or bitter and stinging? The answer is partly decided by your genes, new research shows.

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Listen to Episode 99 of Slate's The Gist:

It's comical to imagine the Bears can exact fierce revenge Sunday against the Packers at Soldier Field. Even an Old Testament-style "smiting" by the home team isn't going to return any yesterdays or erase past disaster.