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The slower-than-expected process of choosing a jury for the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has delayed the opening presentation of the case, the US District Court said on Thursday morning.

Officials in Newtown, Connecticut, voted Wednesday night to tear down the former home of Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate are widely divided about how the nation should respond to the threat of climate change. But at least they can agree on one thing: It is happening. Senators voted 98-1 on Wedne...

CNN has learned that the Syria-based terror group ISIS is active and recruiting inside the Middle Eastern state of Yemen, already a hotbed of terrorist activity.

Russia is scaling down its hugely successful cooperative effort with the U.S. to secure its nuclear materials, raising concerns over the safety and security of tons of dangerous nuclear materials. Security and non-prolif...

If you or someone in your family hasn't received a measles vaccine, you should strongly consider staying away from Disneyland.

US calls for Myanmar to probe killings of 2 ethnic Kachin women

Police are investigating whether to charge Pegida chief Lutz Bachmann

Probes involves alleged affair, suspicious death.

And another denier of manmade global warming wiggles free of the Democrats' show vote

AP source: FBI completes federal civil rights probe of Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting

Jamaica official says marijuana reform bill ready, should soon be introduced in Parliament

The Senate was set to vote on a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline today, but first it voted on a couple amendments. One of these was pure symbolism, stipulating that climate change is "real and not a hoax." Oddly,...

The coalition fighting ISIS has killed more than 6,000 fighters including half of the top command of the terror group, U.S. diplomatic officials said Thursday.

Pelosi says Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu is inappropriate, unhelpful to Iran talks

A New Jersey police officer's fatal shooting of Jerame Reid in the city of Bridgeton in December is being compared to the violent officer-involved incidents that led to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner last ye...

The commanding officer of the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay was relieved of duty Wednesday due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, the Navy said, and officials say he's under investigation in connection with...

Do smartphone apps facilitating easy meetups for casual sex with near-strangers increase risky sexual behavior? For most people, the answer might be "probably." For the federal government, though, the answer is, "Let's s...

The father of the Minnesota twins who allegedly left a racist Snapchat videos on a teenage girl's phone lost his job Thursday after his former employer learned about the allegations.

The board that oversees Arkansas' mortuaries suspended a Jacksonville funeral home on Wednesday after finding that its cooler was filled beyond capacity and that seven bodies were left outside to decompose.

Down from 33.3 million in 2014

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. In the dead of night, they swept in aboard V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Landing in a remote region of one of the most volatile countries on the planet, they raide...