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Americans might be surprised to learn that majority rule is a terrible way to decide most elections. Among other things, shrewd voters can manipulate majority rule by voting against their true preferences. Fortunately, c...

A transgender woman murdered and cooked by her husband in their swank Australian apartment was a “high-class” prostitute using profits from sex work to support her family in Indonesia. Mayang Prasetyo...

If you think your city is the best place to live, know this: There are over 500 other cities in the country with residents who probably feel the same way. And yet, only five locations actually come out on top. From high ...

Getting sick is not a crime, so how do we bridge the divide between protecting the public's health and preserving individual civil liberties?

A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against militants of the Islamic State group near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, killing an unknown number of people, according to the Syri...

Smoke rises from Kobani as the city's defenders look for escape routes from ISIS militants who are closing in with weapons and night-vision goggles.

Doctor Gilbert Mobley wore a hazmat suit and strolled through the world's busiest airport to make a point about Ebola.

Photojournalist who became ill while working in W Africa begins journey as state of patient in Dallas remains critical.

More than $140,000 worth of medical supplies have been locked inside a dented container at the port in Freetown, Sierra Leone, since Aug. 9.

Typhoon in Japan washes 3 American airmen out to sea; separate storm whips Marianas Islands

Spaniards have been building "castells" since the 18th century.

This is Phelps' second DUI arrest in ten years

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old from the Chicago suburbs, was reportedly arrested by FBI agents Saturday evening at the city's O'Hare International Airport for allegedly attempting to travel to Turkey and join the Is...

A Bronx-bred City College grad has won the world's top honor in science, snagging the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering "an inner GPS, in the brain," that makes navigation...

Here I was, a new mom, and I had apparently made a serious, baby-killing mistake

The State Fair icon adds a note on sanitation to his standard folksy greeting.

She's not a thief, officer, she's a patriot: A woman says she wasn't stealing items from cars parked at East Central High School in Hurley, Mississippi, but rather searching for ISIS militants. Lisa Carol Roche is arrest...

Woman says state trooper pitched Christianity to her, violating her rights.          

Take a leisurely scroll through the future of clean energy and public art.

Police who have been scouring the Pennsylvania woods for an accused cop shooter for more than three weeks say they found a handwritten letter belonging to the suspect.

It wouldn't be the same show without Dale Cooper

Speaking of phone surveys, surely a survey conducted by LifeWay, a Christian retailer based in Nashville, TN, should be one that we can rely on. So what was LifeWay curious about? Prayer. In particular: how often you pra...