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Natalie Anderson lights up as two former neighbors, Paul and Kristoffer Neumann, step into her newly opened barbershop for the first time. She runs to greet the men, who drove an hour from Vernon Hills to Beardsgaard Bar...

Puerto Rico police officer hits 2 US university professors with motorcycle; both survive

After only 25 days in office, the ISIS-appointed governor of Mosul, a major city in northern Iraq, was killed Thursday by U.S.-led airstrikes, according to a high-ranking Iraqi police commander. U.S. security officials h...

As New York mourns, New York leaders and protesters previously critical of the department did an about-face and protests seemed out of place.

While some banks are fixing the problem today, Bank of America, Citizens Bank, and Santander have refused to correct the teacher bank accounts until Monday.

The suspected arson attack comes as Sweden grapples with a political crisis caused by the rise of the extreme right.

It was quite a Christmas delivery.

A man who put a gun to a teenage girl's head during a home invasion in the Canaryville neighborhood this week was arrested after another resident of the home overpowered him, according to court records.

A man or boy who had been threatening suicide was shot by police and critically wounded after attacking an officer with a knife Thursday night in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, police said.

(Reuters) - Two more men have been arrested for threatening New York police, including one who called the precinct headquarters of two officers killed as they sat in their patrol car and asked to speak to one of them, a ...

During a recent trip to China, my family and I caused quite a commotion in the Forbidden City. It also happened at the terra-cotta warriors museum and again in Tiananmen Square.

The U.S. Secret Service responded to a New York Times report on the use of citizen volunteers to drive certain vehicles in presidential motorcades.

Jazz clarinettist who developed a flawless technique for bebop The role of the clarinet in jazz changed from vital to marginal in little more than a decade, between the last hurrahs of the big swing bands at the end of t...

'It's amazing how much you can recognise: big cities like London and Paris; the beautiful Amazon rainforest; sandstorms 50 miles wide' This STS-116 space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 2006 was my ...

Memorials and religious services are held across Asia to mark a decade since the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on Boxing Day 2004.

The ageless tree is waiting for the man's oldest son to come home for Christmas

With six of the 21 chairmanships, Texas will have the largest number from a single state since 1979.

Footballers play on despite Ukraine conflict

A group called Lizard Squad takes credit for a Christmas Day attack on Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's Playstation networks.

Criminals are setting up shop in people's homes after being sent to towns around the country by crime bosses in London.

A leading Russian elected official on Thursday called for an investigation of the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II as a "crime against humanity."