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Elizabeth Pena, who played Sofia Vergara's mother on "Modern Family," died earlier this week and news of her death broke last night. She was 55.

A chef who murdered his transgender partner before chopping her up and putting her in a cooking pot was laid to rest to the sound of "Killer Queen" at his...

The man seen Wednesday wearing no protective gear while transporting an Ebola-stricken patient from Dallas to Atlanta works for the air ambulance company that handled the flight. Officials with Georgia-based...

HONG KONG - Pro-democracy protests in the city were reinvigorated Wednesday, following widespread outrage at a video showing police officers beating a restrained protester was widely circulated. Hundreds of protesters ga...

As the Ebola virus has ravaged Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, neighboring West African nations have so far remained largely unaffected because of robust response and prevention tactics. Nigeria and Senegal, both with ...

He was hoping to win sympathy for police dealing with pro-democracy protesters, but the move backfired

Score a round for the good guys. Kurdish fighters backed by US airstrikes waged ferocious street battles Wednesday that had ISIS militants on the run in the fiercely contested town...

Good evening! Here is something terrifying:   Post by Brian Recker. I have nothing to add. Just, wow, terrifying. If I lived near that beach, I would probably be scared to go back in the water. Is this video as scary as...

The abduction of Zeus's daughter Persephone by Hades, later known as Pluto, is one of Greek mythology's hallmarks. But a mosaic discovered in Greece adds a third figure, the Greek god Hermes, into the mix. When Greece's ...

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Amateur video shows police officers kicking a handcuffed protester and dragging dozens of others in violent crackdown.

A Saugus teenager accused of snapchatting videos of an alleged sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl will be held without bail, a judge ruled at a dangerousness hearing on Thursday at the Essex County Juvenile Court.

A Dallas hospital defended its processes and procedures, refuting a union???s allegations of lapses in the hospital???s treatment of a patient with Ebola who later died.

Jon Stewart is clearly unimpressed with the tenor of the debate leading up to the 2014 midterm elections. But on Wednesday night's Daily Show he found three things that Democrats and Republicans in close Senate and House...

Intensified airstrikes on the Syrian border town of Kobani have forced the Islamic State group to retreat as Kurdish forces regained control of areas lost earlier this week, according to media reports.

Latest Texas Ebola case is nurse, 29, who treated man in days before he died in Dallas

Bermuda is bracing for one of the most powerful storms in recent years.

At least 20 people have been killed and over 100 are missing after a blizzard and multiple avalanches struck in a region of Nepal's Himalayas that's popular with mountain climbers.

For most of the 20th century, favorably mentioning the works of Karl Marx has been a quick road to being run out of polite society in the United States. But I've just finished a long trip through the first volume of Das ...

Hong Kong leader says government is ready to start talks with student protesters

American hospitals are shockingly unprepared to treat Ebola patients, nurses across the United States said during an international conference call hosted by the National Nurses United nurses union Wednesday afternoon. In...