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Health officials are warning consumers to avoid prepackaged caramel apples because they are linked to four deaths and more than two dozen illnesses in 10 states.

Juvenile court judges are given wide discretion to decide what is in a young offender's best interest. Many, like Judge Herman C. Dawson, turn to incarceration.

The Supreme Court will not block gay marriages in Florida while the state's attorney general appeals a federal judge's ruling that a ban on marriages was unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press. Couples could...

Dozens of protesters were arrested on Friday in Milwaukee when they blocked rush-hour traffic on a major highway to protest the killing of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer this year.

Scores of anti-police protesters crashed the "Thank You NYPD" rally Friday night in New York City. The event was initially organized to show support for the New York City Police Department, following mass protests agains...

SINJAR MOUNTAIN, Iraq

Already missing The Colbert Report? Comedy Central has you covered with a 14-minute (yes, 14 minutes!) video highlighting all the times our favorite "news" host broke character. Stephen Colbert's giggles are a giddy remi...

Pakistan officials: US drone strike in northwestern tribal area kills 5 militants

Purchasing a home can be an overwhelming process. In between the back and forth negotiations, it can be easy to forget about your home appraisal. However, the fact remains that an appraisal is essential to the home-buyin...

North Korea managed to offer a compromise and a threat to the U.S. in one statement on Saturday, batting away the FBI's accusation that the isolated country is behind the cyberattacks on Sony Pictures. "We propose to con...

(Reuters) - India is offering to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to unblock billions of dollars in trade held up by concerns ov...

This week, thanks to 3-D printing, astronaut and ISS Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, had a wrench he needed manufactured by a printer in just four hours. The ratcheting socket wrench was the first "uplink tool" printed ...

One of the biggest art heists in Los Angeles history began when a housekeeper left the home of an elderly bedridden couple.

Clinic ordered to compensate man who sued it for administering electric shocks intended to make him heterosexual.

Politician claims he was offered at least $2.5m to vote in favour of government's presidential candidate.

Things to know about the flurry of news around Major League Baseball on Friday

A panel investigating the agency's search of a computer network used by staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who were looking into the C.I.A.'s use of torture will recommend against punishing anyone, offici...

Federal court finds protesters in contempt for ignoring order to halt anti-whaling campaign

President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to respond to a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures that he blamed on North Korea, and scolded the Hollywood studio for caving in to what he described as a foreign dictator im...

Sure, traveling to Antarctica sounds cool, but visitors may be leaving behind a tough time for the region's adorable inhabitants, The Atlantic reports. A paper published in the journal Polar Biology notes that penguins a...

Several states are using their agreement with EZ Pass to monitor and punish speeders, adding to the increasing number of electronic speed-monitoring devices facing motorists.  

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