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When Sherri Emerson's grandmother died of bowel cancer in 2011, she placed the woman's cellphone in her coffin so she could still text the dearly departed. The 22-year-old care worker...

PARIS -- A controversial green art installation on Paris’ tony Place Vendome has been taken down after being vandalized overnight. The inflatable sculpture called “Tree” vaguely resembled a Christmas tree...

We all want to know how to get respect. Research shows respect is key to both your love life and your career. But it’s difficult. Others size you up very quickly. For instance, people evaluate how attractive you are in...

WASHINGTON -- The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old in a St. Louis suburb last summer has told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle and in...

A vehicle drove into a Chase Bank branch on the North Side Saturday, police said.

While federal and local officials rethink their Ebola containment strategy, they've also riled front-line health care workers by repeatedly pointing the finger at nurses as new infections surface.

Fidel Castro says Cuba ready to cooperate with US in battle against Ebola.

The Category 2 storm is headed north this weekend

It was an amber August night in Western Uganda in 2007. As the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I suited up in full biosafety gear to observe a team of our top disease detectives as ...

Putin and Poroshenko meet for the first time since Crimea's ceasefire was agreed last September to discuss gas deal.

Hong Kong sees no clear endgame as protests turn increasingly volatile

China, Vietnam patch ties after tense standoff over territorial disputes in South China Sea

Public figures' ill-thought out comments add to atmosphere of fear in the U.S.

(Reuters) - Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America....

Resarch by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported just 4 percent of US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed people identified as members of al-Qaeda. Research by the London-based bureau found that only 111 ...

Horrified zookeepers at the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo told police they found "Jasper" in his enclosure Wednesday morning lying in a pool of blood. 

When I was 26, I was in school full-time and working full-time. I was finishing my degree at night. I was a student at Mundelein College, but the last class I needed to graduate wasn't offered at Mundelein that spring. I...

How one 13-year-old boy with autism became B.F.F.'s with Apple's Siri

Sitting down to do a feature on Motorola's latest budget handset, the Motorola Moto G (2014), I find myself in a quandary. Is the Moto G that most elusive of handsets? Is Motoroloa's pocket rocket the number one choice f...

The prospects for the Yankees and Mets find themselves mingling as teammates in the Arizona Fall League.

With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States but dozens of people being monitored in case they contract the illness, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday not to give in to "hysteria" about the s...

Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies will offer workers a chance to earn a certificate.