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​NEW ORLEANS — ​Multimillionaire murder suspect Robert Durst was ordered held without bail Monday at a Louisiana hearing where prosecutors revealed he had a flesh-tone mask with salt-and-pepper hair, stacks...

"Scandal" star Kerry Washington stood up for same-sex rights in a fiery speech Saturday night that brought a cheering crowd to its feet.

Ashraf Ghani to meet with President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry in his first trip to Washington as president.

Archaeologists have uncovered a secret Nazi lair deep in the Argentine jungle -- which was built for leaders of the Third Reich in case they needed to flee Germany.

Pope Francis has said that all he wants is to go out one day to a pizzeria "without being recognized."

Glenn Houston was 10 months old when he was carried into a courtroom and handed over to his grandmother, along with his three older siblings.

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The U.S. military issued a statement Sunday urging its personnel to maintain "vigilance" after a "kill list," allegedly made public by hackers sympathetic to the Islamic State group, went online this weekend.

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore, died early Monday morning, according to a statement released by the office of Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He was 91.

Park officials had warned that the cliff was unstable.

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Focus shifts to the challenges of building up security against regional threats while also forging a new democracy.

Jamal Benomar warns UN Security Council that Yemen could become a conflict similar to Iraq, Syria or Libya.

Lee turned a fractious city-state into a paragon of order and prosperity, but dissatisfaction is rising among its population as regional competition threatens to sap its economy.

Kenneth W. Ford, who helped devise the weapon more than 50 years ago, has refused the federal agency's request to delete parts of his memoir.

Five years ago this week, Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, and we've been debating it ever since. Like many Americans, I oppose Obamacare, and I think we ought to repeal it and replace it. Over the p...

In "Base Appeals," David Remnick writes that recent actions by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have broken his country's long alliance with the United States.

Three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured Monday when scaffolding collapsed at a high-rise building under construction in downtown Raleigh.

A giant tide on France???s North Atlantic coast on Saturday enabled paleontologists to find hundreds of dinosaur footprints on a beach.

A controversial South African mosque performed its first interfaith marriage between a Muslim woman and a Christian man, in a ceremony that is being criticized this week by local Islamic leaders. However, the imam of the...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will formally launch his campaign for president of the United States on Monday. And now there are photos to prove it.

It also said the key piece of equipment that failed had been tested only a day before the accident.