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When it comes to the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, all is ­forgiven. But I haven't forgotten. He's back in our faces, rested and ready. The English-born folk singer/songwriter,...

Bank of America is being forced to hand over more than $1 million to a Florida couple after the bank flooded them with hundreds of loan collection calls for year.

A Chicago police officer has been disciplined after he admitted playing a song some consider racially offensive during a protest against police violence last weekend, the department announced in a statement Thursday.

After retired teacher Bill Bricker was charged in the fall with sex crimes against children, his former employer, Winnetka District 36, released hundreds of pages of his personnel records, some indicating school official...

Emergency measures imposed in remote eastern district of Kano after health workers uncover surge of Ebola infections.

TIME looks back over the past 12 months and presents a selection of underreported, astonishing and apparently-implausible animal images

The drones will be equipped with night-vision cameras

Poland's defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, called out Russia for its "unprecedented" naval and air force presence in the Baltic Sea area this week. Siemoniak told reporters that although Russia was not preparing to att...

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The party-line vote put on display an unusual alliance between some Democrats and Republicans on the role of Congress in deciding to go into battle.

Experts skeptical of NYPD plan

CNN affiliate ITN reveals the man behind the Shami Witness twitter account, which was used to recruit for ISIS.

Israeli troops are accused of killing a Palestinian minister in scuffles with demonstrators.

It's ironic that the first thing we notice about a present (besides its size, of course) is usually the last thing to get our attention during the frenzied gift-giving rush. But wrapping a gift won't ever be the same aft...

They codenamed Google "Goliath"

Angelina Jolie runs into the hacked Sony executive whose emails contained blunt chatter about the actress -- emails in which she was described as a "spoiled brat."

A week of growing anti-Muslim demonstrations in the eastern German city of Dresden ended in what authorities said was racially motivated arson of refugee housing in the southern German city of Vorra, Bavaria, on Thursday...

Bo Muller-Moore is now free to print the phrase on T-shirts

Indian police are hunting for an executive in the southern city of Bangalore suspected of operating a pro-Islamic State group Twitter account as a recruiting tool for the militant group in India, local media reports said...

A land-swap of 2,400-acres of Apache ceremonial and ancestral lands isn't a law, it's larceny. But U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.0 and other Arizona legislators are hell-bent for digging copper out of the ground there, s...