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When I met Ashima Shiraishi, whom Nick Paumgarten profiles in the magazine this week, it was not like meeting a fourteen-year-old. It was like meeting an adult. Ashima, a world-class rock climber, is uncommonly focussed ...

North Korea detonated some sort of bomb last night. Pyongyang says that it was a hydrogen bomb, although, as Barbara Demick notes, the seismological readings don't really support that claim. The tremor from the explosion...

At least 106 women have come forward to file criminal complaints of sexual assault

Workers have recovered a total of 58 bodies from a landslide caused by the collapse of a massive waste dump in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Larycia Hawkins said Muslims and Christians pray to the same God

Joe Biden knows he made the right decision by not running for president, but he admits that still doesn't keep him from feeling disappointed he isn't. "I regret it every day," the Vice President told an NBC affiliate Wed...

On Wednesday afternoon, the House voted to approve a bill that would pull about $450 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The bill—passed by the Senate late in 2015—will now head to President Obama's d...

Two Yemeni detainees held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were transferred to Ghana, the U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday, years after both men were recommended for rel...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday it investigated a woman's claim that she was drugged and assaulted by Bill Cosby in 2008 at the Playboy Mansion, and will not file criminal charges ag...

When the temperature drops, we say it's colder than in Alaska. But just how often are parts of the U.S. colder than Alaska during the winter?

Days after he announced executive actions on guns, the president will answer questions from both gun rights advocates and gun control activists in a session moderated by CNN.

How will Hillary Clinton respond to rape allegations against her husband without contradicting her own support for alleged sexual-assault victims?

Michigan man who pleaded guilty to shooting his dog in the head with crossbow to be sentenced

French Muslim Moussa Tchantchiung says he was in the country to help Rohingya refugees there when he was arrested.

The Latest: El Nino storms bring heavy snow to northern Arizona,

Flint has faced a lead-saturated drinking water "disaster" affecting almost 100,000 residents over the past 18 months.

He allegedly tried to enter the police station.

A Paris police official says the incident is "more likely terrorism" than a standard criminal act

Germany's justice minister says asylum-seekers could be deported if they're found to have participated in a string of New Year sexual assaults in Cologne. …

The latest on North Korea's announcement that it conducted a hydrogen bomb test Wednesday (all times local): …

Iran issued a warning to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, accusing the kingdom of sabotaging Tehran's interests by opposing its nuclear deal with the West, driving down oil prices and "adding fuel to the fire" in their escalat...

A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos.