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The National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest features incredible shots of people, places and nature. See some of the best entries yet. National Geographic is still accepting entries through Oct. 31,...

Voting restrictions and an ever-tightening Chinese policies are causing unrest amongst Hong Kongers

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CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed in U.S.

More than 900 chickens at a California farm were beaten to death with a golf club last month, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The gruesome scene was discovered Sept....

A team for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flew down to Dallas after a patient was placed under evaluation after exhibiting symptoms of the Ebola virus. The patient, who had been in Liberia, is the first p...

The protests engulfing Hong Kong intensified on Tuesday, as demonstrators fanned out across the territory's business districts to express their opposition to Chinese interference in Hong Kong's electoral system.

You can continue your education with some amazing and free online resources available from top universities. These institutions offer many of their courses in the form of video lectures, audio transcripts and online quiz...

Most of us can picture, perhaps from experience, the grim landscape of a college dorm room floor the morning after a big party. But how many can say it inspired a company?

This year, hajj will take place against the ugly backdrop of a group that has come to represent the antithesis of what the pilgrimage signifies

In a program offering sexually active teenagers in St. Louis free birth control, the rates were less than a quarter of those of such teenagers nationally,

Study published just as Massachusetts weighs whether to welcome casinos

Newly disclosed government documents show that in 1976, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger mapped out secret plans to launch airstrikes against Havana and "smash Cuba."

A passenger train collision in Gorakhupur in northern India has killed at least three people and injured dozens. New Delhi TV reported dozens of passengers were injured after two trains crashed head-on in eastern Uttar P...

Gersh Zavodnik has filed more than 120 lawsuits in Indiana courts.          

A security contractor with a gun made it onto an elevator with the president in Atlanta, without permission from the Secret Service. He began taking photos and "behaving unprofessionally."

Sabrina Allen was 4 when she disappeared following a visit with her mother.

Consent and lack of consent can look the same

Pointing to recently leaked audio recordings between officials at the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs bankers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is slamming regulators for being far too timid and compliant when it comes ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A jury convicted a Florida man on Wednesday of first-degree murder in his retrial for killing a teenager after an argument over loud music. Prosecutors said Michael...

While buyers and sellers must enter the popular online marketplace at their own peril, security experts say certain precautions can be taken to ensure safe and lawful transactions.

Virginia State Police have already confirmed that they found "a new forensic link" between the 2009 murder of Morgan Harrington and the suspected abduction of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham after Jesse Matt...