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Defenders say convict was a teenager when he killed a boy in 2004 and that he was tortured into confession.

An Indian rapper has gone viral with a music video calling on consumer products giant Unilever to clean up alleged toxic waste from a forested southern hill station. Sofia Ashraf’s...

The creators of hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot that was decapitated in Philadelphia share how the robot will live on in future projects.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer was ready to discuss everything from gun control to drones during a press conference in his Midtown office Monday -- except his position on the...

The ban is on all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo "trophies"

Forget umbrellas: The newest symbol of protest in Hong Kong is the bra.

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken released a letter from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday which sees the surveillance agency objecting to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on the grounds that it...

A study says homicide rates are down. But 2015 rates--especially for gun violence--are very different.

BERLIN -- A fire and a subsequent explosion at a former air-raid shelter in the northern German city of Hamburg left 38 people injured on Tuesday, authorities said. The city’s...

A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has ignited a firestorm of criticism from animal-rights activists for flaunting online images of herself posed with the carcasses of a giraffe and other...

Most of the Republican Party's presidential field squared off in a New Hampshire candidate forum Monday night for a preview of the 2016 primary season's first debate. The candidates aimed...

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath has been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy whom he had picked up while the youngster was hitchhiking, a published report revealed Tuesday.

The "incidence rate" has quadrupled since the 1970s

One man, an army of musicians and volunteers, and a viral video spell success: Dave Grohl, the front man of the band, replies.

A decade later, the city is arguably a better place to eat than it was before the storm.

A baby girl was born early Tuesday morning at the World Trade Center train station.          

On Aug. 14, 1945, a 17-year-old boy from Ross County, Ohio, stumbled upon something historic.          

Republican 2016 hopefuls preparing for Thursday's debate are wrestling with one strangely important question: How do you take on Donald Trump?

North Korea has released video footage of a Canadian pastor purportedly confessing before a Pyongyang church to committing crimes against the state.

"It's not just about clothing. It's the idea that there is no freedom for women in general."

The group has been at war with the Indian government for over 60 years

Paul Christiano was convicted in 1999 of purchasing child pornography through the mail. The offense, committed when Christiano was in his early 20s, obliged him to register as a sex offender in the State of Illinois. In ...