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Long-time Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott recently came out as gay -- saying the feedback he's received has been "all positive."

Mercurial North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a habitual smoker, has ordered senior officials to smoke only domestic cigarettes, calling foreign smokes unpatriotic, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday. Kim ...

At least 36 people killed in an early-morning attack on a stone quarry in northern town of Mandera, local sources say.

Weeks after her sister had her jaw fractured and days after another confrontation, Nagah Ezaldein went to Cook County domestic violence court in a bid to obtain an order of protection against the ex-boyfriend allegedly r...

Girls living in sub-Saharan Africa are behind a staggering increase in cases of HIV infections, a recent report from UNICEF shows. The remarkably disproportionate impact on young women has raised questions about whether ...

Katherine Bowen McIntyre was born in 1931.

The legislatures of North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Arizona, and four other states are considering bills that would make passing a citizenship test a high school graduation requirement. The proposal, which ha...

By all rights, Jon Stewart's Monday interview with Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano should have been awkward, given the smackdown of Fox News that Stewart had delivered earlier in last night's Dai...

Electricity knocked out to numerous public buildings, including fire stations, courthouse.          

Western sanctions and decrease in global oil prices are seen as the reasons for recent sharp drop in the currency.

Climate talks resume in Lima as record temperatures increase dangers and costs around world

A small but growing number of teenage girls in Europe, enticed by Internet recruiters, have shown amazing determination in their efforts to join jihadists, experts say.

As a candidate it's important to show confidence and smarts. However, competing with or arguing with the interviewer is rarely successful

So your friend or family member is turning the big 5-0 -- or some other significant birthday that ends in "0" or "5." How will you help them celebrate? Do you fill a table with 50 framed photos of moments in the life of ...

Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac win prizes for their roles in the period noir

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has been widely billed as Peter Jackson's last trip to Middle-Earth, but hardcore Tolkien fans have been holding out hope that one of the author's remaining books could form the ...

Protests have quieted in the week since a grand jury decided not to indict a Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Bodio Hutchinson, 34, was held on $1 million bail at his December 2 arraignment.

Is Moscow simply at the mercy of global oil prices or is its foreign policy also to blame?

The animal's previous owners were denied their request to reclaim him.

Eric Fisher has an updated weather forecast.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may not be smiling, but recipients of his Christmas card sure are. The photo features his wife, Cherie Blair, smiling under a classic "Season's Greetings" message. Tony, unfortuna...