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Pro marijuana advocates in Maine are expected to start collecting signatures to get recreational pot on the ballot in 2016 following approval Tuesday of a petition by the Secretary of State's office, the Associated Press...

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In East Baltimore on Monday night, a community center and senior housing complex still under construction went up in flames, and authorities say they do not know if it is linked to the rioting across the city. Baltimore ...

A report by a prominent national professors group says the University of Illinois violated the principles of academic freedom when it withdrew a tenured faculty appointment to a professor because of critical and profane ...

Several officers were injured as police cars were damaged and rocks were thrown. Protesters smashed windows, and a CVS drugstore was set on fire.

Kennedy is considered key to how the case is decided, Roberts could be a wild card.          

The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in South Korea last April, has been found guilty of murder on appeal and sentenced to life imprisonment, according to a court in the southern city of Gwangju.

Japan police investigate suspected projectile launch aimed at US base near Tokyo; no injuries

Unrest and violence in the streets Monday forced the postponement of a matchup between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox—but an impassioned speech on Twitter from one Orioles exec days earlier puts the o...

Hundreds of decomposed corpses were discovered buried in shallow graves in the streets of the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak this past weekend, according to local officials and a resident.

Man convicted of killing Texas corrections officer asks US Supreme Court to block execution

On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) met with about 30 Orthodox Jewish leaders at the Brooklyn, New York, headquarters of the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, and he raised some eyebrows with his thoughts on foreign...

In Kenya, talk of war masks a multitude of sins on the part of the government and security agents.

Baltimore officials lashed out at protesters who ransacked stores, threw rocks and bottles at police officers, and set cars and buildings ablaze Monday evening. The unrest began hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a...

Hong Kong's visible and historic Nepali minority is united in its determination to help loved ones back home

In the days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday and killed more than 4,300 people, dozens of aftershocks of 4.5 magnitude and greater have hit as well, and the U.S. Geological Survey warns that ther...

As Baltimore protests escalate, rioters are vandalizing police cars and throwing projectiles at police. CNN's Athena Jones and Jake Tapper report.

It started Monday morning with word on social media of a "purge" -- a reference to a movie in which crime is made legal. It was to begin at 3 p.m. at Mondawmin Mall, then venture down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Inner Har...

White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, doesn't believe he has much longer to live and wants to plead guilty to capital murder to avoid a lengthy trial

Kenton Cool, who has summited Mt. Everest 11 times, lost 3 Sherpa friends in Saturday's avalanche. He describes the "mind-numbingly frightening" fear they must have felt.