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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called Sunday for civil disobedience to undermine the Supreme Court's ruling last week upholding same-sex marriage throughout the country. Invoking Dr. Martin...

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Detroit mom pleads guilty to killing 2 kids whose bodies were found in home freezer

Tama was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan in 2007.

On Sunday, a North Carolina prison worker was charged with helping a convicted murderer escape from the Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina. Escaped inmate Kristopher McNeil was serving 14 yea...

India's Prime Minister has led the campaign to boost the standing of women in India's highly patriarchal society

The FBI is investigating fires at black churches in Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, to see if they are connected. The fire at the black church in NC was no accident. Fire department ruled it an ar...

In dissent from Monday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the use of a death penalty drug, Justice Sonia Sotomayor likened the drug to methods of medieval torture, including the burning of heretics at the stake and the slo...

Thousands are fleeing fighting between the Islamic State group and Syrian army in the city of Hassakeh

A car bomb killed Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday, ripping through his convoy in a Cairo neighborhood, in the first assassination of a top official in the country in a quarter century, marking an apparent escalation by ...

The Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal injection executions Monday, as two dissenting justices said for the first time that they think it's "highly likely" that the death penalty itself is unc...

It has swept away old Portuguese colonial laws in a victory for campaigners for gay rights in Africa.

Atlanta police say they've apprehended a suspect accused of stealing a hearse with a body inside.

Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his analysis of asset prices, and his name is half of the much-watched Case-Shiller Index of housing prices. It turns out, he's not too enthusiastic abo...

An Omani man who became Thailand's first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been declared free of the deadly virus, Thailand's health ministry said on Monday. The 75-year-old man, who had travelled to Ba...

Activists say the "Marianne" was approached by Israel's military around 100 nautical miles from Gaza's shore.

The Federal Railroad Administration is hoping its new measure to integrate grade-crossing locations into mapping technology will curb the recent increase in crashes and fatalities.

Three people were feared dead Sunday after a small plane crashed into a home in Plainville, Massachusetts.

Sgt. Jay Cook was on a routine patrol when he saw Sweat.

Attacks in Tunisia and Kuwait further complicate the complex combination of religion, conflict and extremism?

With same-sex marriage now a right, some companies are likely to deliver what feels like an ultimatum: Marry within a certain time frame, or lose your partner's health care coverage.

Matt and Sweat may have used pepper shakers to throw dogs off their scents.