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Police arrest 45 people as they move in to try to remove a group of demonstrators who had occupied a highway underpass.

Excerpted from Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom by Lewis Buzbee. Out now from Graywolf Press.

Tucked away in the corner of my grandmother's kitchen, there was an old, heavy ceramic cookie jar. It had a cracked lid that had been glued together too many times to count, thanks to all the tiny hands (mine included) t...

Microsoft Word can sometimes feel like the place where creativity goes to die. Its icons evoke the wan cubicle world of '90s office culture: impassive clipboards, boring scissors, a squat dour printer. (And don't get me ...

HONOLULU -- A Japan Airlines flight had to return to Honolulu after a male passenger sexually assaulted a female passenger in the airplane’s bathroom, the FBI said. FBI agents arrested...

Things are not going well for Vladimir Putin. The price of oil and the ruble continue to fall. Top Russian officials admit that the economy is in big trouble, despite Putin's denials. Likely presidential candidate, Hilla...

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Funds crunch forces UN food-assistance agency, which runs on donations from member countries, to scale back operation.

Britain, France and Germany will take part in a video conference on the disease that experts say will soon affect 10,000 a week.

It was news that gave parents hope: None of the bodies found in five mass graves in southern Mexico belonged to 43 teachers college students who have been missing for nearly three weeks since a clash with police.

Senior military officials from the two Koreas are holding talks for the first time in seven years, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

The United States went to war in Iraq expecting to destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, it found only remnants of chemical arms built in close collaboration with the West.

Frieden said the CDC is taking new steps to ensure the virus does not spread to any more people in the U.S. 

Tropical Storm Ana expected to strengthen to hurricane, hit Hawaii's Big Island this weekend

"I killed that lady," the 10-year-old boy told a Pennsylvania state trooper, after a 90-year-old woman was found dead in the home of the boy's grandfather.

The law would close most Texas abortion facilities.

Pursuing sanity in a digital tsunami: be calm; be kind What if every user manual began with the directions, Be calm; Be kind... Remarks at 12th Rhodes Conference: 'Dialogue of Civilizations' (wpfdc.org)

City officials have pledged to keep 'Bentley' safe

BBC Click talks to Russian artist Dmitry Morozov about his tattoo that 'plays' music