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The big brother of Fox sitcom star Mindy Kaling reveals that he got into medical school by pretending to be African American. Fifteen years ago, Vijay Chokal-Ingam shaved off his...

In the wake of the devastating terror attack in Garissa, Kenyan police put the bodies of the alleged gunmen on a gruesome parade through the town.

Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison apologized Sunday for directing an obscenity and a racial slur at Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky during a postgame news conference at the Final Four.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — The former drummer and a founding member of the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert Burns Jr., died late Friday in a single-vehicle crash in Georgia,...

A gay Louisiana high school student says she is going to skip her prom because the school's principal will not let her wear a tuxedo.

A senior Iraqi security official in Tikrit says homes were set on fire and shops were destroyed, hours after the city's liberation. Arwa Damon reports.

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Many U.S. Jewish leaders are unnerved both by the new Iran nuclear agreement and the public falling out between President Barack Obama and his Israeli counterpart, developments that are creating a rift in the durable all...

Driver injured in attack on Fenerbahce's bus which sports minister condemned as "cowardly and barbaric".

Traffic accidents kill 26, injure 9 people in 2 Chinese provinces

A man or boy was shot to death by Zion police Saturday afternoon, police said.

A city with a pattern of racial discrimination faces elections and other changes.

"City out of control," a senior Iraqi security official says as looting by militias and individuals from Iraq's army happened just hours after ISIS militants were driven from the city.

Put away the Ouija board and take out the Pledge. Ghostbusters at Clarkson University in New York are investigating the link between indoor air quality and ghostly sightings, according to Medical Daily. They say toxic mo...

Discovery of the body of a young girl who may have been dead for weeks has led to the arrest of her teen sister -- herself a mother -- and a search for the girls' parents, who may be in California with five other childre...

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Police make arrest after human remains found in duffel bag in Cambridge, Massachusetts

After at least eight young men from a single neighborhood in Norway left for Syria, local officials were left pondering: Why it is that certain areas generate a disproportionate number of jihadists?

Cuban state media Saturday released images of a rare public appearance by former leader Fidel Castro, who met with a group of Venezuelans who were on a solidarity mission to the island.

The winner for best musical at the 2014 Tonys has recouped its $7.5 million capitalization, a feat a producer attributes to a good awards night.

The young woman was washing clothes by the river, as many people in the Indian village of Thikariya Mubarak do, when the beast struck.

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