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Four killed in shooting at home in northern Illinois city of Rockford

Joe Cocker's death is being felt all over the entertainment world

North Korea Sunday accused the U.S. government of involvement in the making the comedy-satire "The Interview," the movie that sparked the cyberattack against Sony Pictures and caused a firestorm. North Korea threatened t...

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces, aided by U.S.-led airstrikes, retook control of huge chunks of territory around Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq from the Islamic State group late on Sunday, according to media reports. Mount...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate -- finally broke his silence on President Barack Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba in a letter to the President issued ...

Neighbors and business owners recalled Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as law enforcement colleagues visited the Brooklyn homes of the fallen officers.

This war on law and order is as dangerous as any global enemy we face. And it's built on a lie.

Over the last several months, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have repeatedly exhorted the People's Liberation Army to "be ready to win a war." Xi has repeatedly called for greater military mode...

And what to look forward to in 2015

Of all the countries whose leaders were felled by the Arab Spring, Tunisia is alone in that it is hailed as a model for democratic reform

Things have gone so deeply wrong so quickly, it is hard to keep track of all the mistakes that led us here.

A man who fatally shot two New York police officers before killing himself told bystanders to "watch what I'm going to do" moments before the attack, according to police

Investigation completed in the case of soldier held by Taliban for 5 years.

A funny new version of that 'To Me, You Are Perfect' scene

The practice known as "manspreading" on subways is apparently such a problem that New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is focusing on it in a new campaign to curb the obnoxious behavior.

Pope Francis slammed the Vatican's bureaucracy on Monday and listed 15 sins of the Curia that he said he hoped would be atoned for and resolved in the New Year. The pontiff used his annual Christmas address to deliver a ...

Pope Francis has unleashed a blistering critique of the Vatican bureaucracy -- or Curia -- criticizing its "illnesses" ranging from the "disease of feeling immortal" to vainglory and excessive planning.

Teaching intolerance at University of Michigan?

Reaction from Dr. Alveda King

A quarter of a million participants in a Chicago game-maker's holiday fundraising campaign can now lay claim to small pieces of an island in Maine that the company bought this year and renamed "Hawaii 2," according to Ma...

The Republican establishment is determined not to repeat the mistakes of 2012, but Ben Carson is riding a groundswell of support from outside the mainstream.

A Hinsdale Central High School teacher resigned Dec. 15, after a student reported inappropriate communication between the teacher and another student.