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Atika Shubert breaks down the details of a video showing the simultaneous beheading of 22 Syrian captives held by ISIS.

Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking a major highway and stopping a train as activists in this ultra-liberal bastion protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police office...

The actor was best known for his memorable role in the cult TV series, but later said the part stymied his future acting career

The sudden death of a newlywed 75-year-old man had led to suspicions that his wife, Chisako Kakehi, may have killed as many as seven men.

Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s...

A reference to the "mass destruction of [Ukraine's] own citizens" was dropped from a draft copy of a Dec. 5 speech, TIME discovers

A high school football quarterfinal playoff game is so important to Oklahoma City's Frederick A. Douglass High School that the team is appealing to a state district judge to try to get a do-over on a bad call. Down by on...

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its highly anticipated findings — dubbed the torture report — on the interrogation techniques the CIA used against terrorism suspects in the Bush era. Among many ...

Three soldiers shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Sanliurfa province on border with Syria.

Hundreds of demonstrators staged protests and "die-ins" outside New York's Barclays Center Monday night ahead of the Brooklyn Nets-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA game. Protesters walked through traffic and sprawled flat in the ...

WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic leaders from both houses of Congress negotiated on a spending bill into the night Monday as the deadline loomed for funding the government. The next 24 hours are likely to determin...

'As long as they're peaceful'

More than 600 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have ended up in over 53 countries

The King Tut's tomb of cars.

Finally, a wedding we'd actually want to attend

Eight cases where the C.I.A. said its tactics worked, and how the report undercut those claims.

The declassified version of the CIA report on torture by the Senate Intelligence Committee is being released Tuesday. A 600-page executive summary is being disseminated out of thousands of pages in the report, which is e...

Brian Beutler writes today about the recent Republican practice of gumming up the Senate by deluging every bill with a tidal wave of awkward, superfluous, or just plain dumb amendments designed to force Democrats to cast...

A group of paleontologists make an amazing fossil find only to have it confiscated by the authorities.

Between arranging furniture, choosing the right paint colors, and making sure you position your lighting just right, decorating is never quite as easy as it seems. There are, after all, people earning degrees in this stu...

Talk about the perfect place to drink out of a skull. Archaeologists have unearthed a large drinking and feasting hall in Sweden that they believe was once the home of Viking royalty. Initially believed to be a burial mo...

Fans are banding together to change the plot.