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Shave off a few years -- and a few pounds -- and I could easily be James Blake. Which is why his arrest this week outside Manhattan's Grand Hyatt hotel...

Marches in Europe and Australia come as UN official says one million more Syrians could be displaced by end of the year.

A 24-year-old mother is in custody Saturday after her two young children were found barefoot, dirty and living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave on the eastern edge of Kansas City, Missouri.

Nine dead after PKK bombing of police checkpoint sparks helicopter and shelling raids in Sirnak province.

Amid the fray and all the bodies pressed against the razor wire along the Greece-Macedonia border, fingers dig into my arm.

Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage will continue despite a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca's Grand Mosque -- an accident being blamed on high winds during heavy rain. Crowds...

28, half children, drown off Greece when boat capsizes in high wind; Hungary sees record flow

The tech company handling the private email server Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state has "no knowledge of the server being wiped," a Platte River Networks spokesman told The Washington Post on Saturday. The Demo...

Four firefighters were injured Saturday as wildfires spread across California and forced evacuations, officials said.

Who are Uighurs? A look at repressed Chinese minority seen as having motive in Bangkok bombing

Authorities identify special needs student found dead on school bus; investigation launched

Iran has reportedly found an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, following assessments that the country is running low on the nuclear raw material and just days after President Obama essentially secured an internationa...

Hundreds of people rushed to escape a massive wildfire charging across the tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another fast-moving blaze that broke out in Northern California Saturday, sending four firefighters to the...

When Dean Karnazes ran 135 miles nonstop across Death Valley during the height of summer, the heat was so intense it "caused the epithelia in my mouth and throat to slough off, like a reptile shedding its skin."

Free to travel abroad once again, the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei speaks with Christiane Amanpour in London.

The rhetoric between Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., is heating up on the campaign trail ahead of the next GOP debate.

Radioactivity, the greatest threat to life on earth, is easy to ignore. Recent activity by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission reinforces ignorance. This article seeks to raise awareness, educate about, and demystify th...

Moses Malone, a three-time NBA MVP and one of basketball's most ferocious rebounders, died Sunday, the Philadelphia 76ers said Sunday. He was 60.

The word "disconnect" is the appropriate way to describe the chasm between America's government and its citizens. We all have our favorite examples, but none can match the events of...

Photos of the top five on the Forbes list of highest-paid television actresses.

The next Republican presidential primary debate is still four days away, but Donald Trump and Rand Paul are eager to get the brawling off to an early start. Following an interview Saturday in which Paul said the media's ...

Ground troops from the Saudi-led coalition loyal to exiled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi launched a "decisive" operation against the Houthis Sunday, hours after Yemen pulled out of U.N.-brokered peace talks wi...