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STAMFORD, Conn. -- A former Connecticut high school teacher awaiting sentencing over a sexual relationship with a student has been arrested again after allegedly threatening a student connected with her...

French police are on the hunt for the 26-year-old burqa-wearing, crossbow-shooting wife of kosher-grocery-store shooter and cop killer Amedy Coulibaly. Hayat Boumeddiene, who police say is "armed and dangerous," trained....

US judge throws out a case filed by human rights groups that blamed the UN for a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti.

Some of Missouri's top leaders tried unsuccessfully to pressure Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson to resign after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, interviews with several elected officials and records released Friday...

The killings will reverberate throughout the European Union, where nationalist parties are warning of the dangers of too much immigration.

Before you dismiss President Obama's proposal of two years of free community college as frivolous government spending, let me toss a number out at you: 500%.

Nations will likely see more of terror attacks, sasy a U.S. official and the head of Britain's MI5.

From New York to Beirut, thousands plan to stand in solidarity with Paris for "Je Suis Charlie" rallies scheduled over the weekend. The Je Suis Charlie rallies are being held in support of free speech and to mourn the de...

Canadian authorities arrested twin brothers on terrorism charges while Australian officials announced the arrests of two men following counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and...

A former al Qaeda associate who spied on the group for Western intelligence agencies said that the men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre could have been a "sleeper cell," that spent years preparing for the attac...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid said Friday that an exercising accident has taken away the vision in his right eye. The Nevadan is the top Democrat in the Republican-controlled Senate...

It would have been easy to dwell on the negative - and there were times it was tempting.

World leaders breathed a big sigh of relief on Friday after two terrorists who staged a murderous attack on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a gunman who seized a...

The downfall of Easter Island may have had more to do with preexisting environmental conditions than degradation by humans, according to a new study of the remote speck of land made famous by its enormous stone-head stat...

French Police raid a kosher grocery store where four hostages were killed Friday. Reuters

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged Friday that his officers participated in a work slowdown since the fatal shootings of two NYPD officers late last month, but he said that cops are "beginning...

More than 30,000 people in northeast Nigeria have been displaced after Boko Haram attacks killed hundreds, possibly thousands of people over the weekend, officials said.

The FBI and Justice Department recommend criminal charges be made against retired general David Petraeus (pictured). Reuters

Friday was a day, like the previous two, of violence in and around Paris, one that ended with France unsure whether this drama is now truly over or a predictor of more cultural, religious and political violence to come.

Commissioner William J. Bratton ordered the department's top commanders to do what they could to end the slowdown.

The City Council in Hyattsville, Md., approved giving 16- and 17-year-olds a voice in local government.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor can immediately start a preliminary examination of war crimes allegations stemming from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.