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U.S. and South Korean officials vowed Wednesday to make North Korea pay a high price for its defiant nuclear test earlier this month that caused worries about advancement in the North's bomb program. …

Images of an impoverished city where no one dares to drink the tap water have put Republican Rick Snyder on the defensive

North Korea has announced it has successfully conducted a hydrogen nuclear test, a marked step towards the nation's ambitions to be a "nuclear weapons state both in name and reality."

Twenty-six former students allege in a lawsuit that a now-deceased Kamehameha Schools' psychiatrist repeatedly sexually abused them

The leader of the world's biggest Muslim country is offering to ease relations between longtime rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran

IRBIL, Iraq -- The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State’s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 years the compound surv...

WASHINGTON

A letter by the intelligence agencies' inspector general says that a review of emails on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private computer server found information that would place it among the government's mo...

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A gruff retired Chicago police detective who worked for a time under disgraced former Cmdr. John Burge returned to the witness stand Tuesday to defend his work that sent a South Side teenager to prison for murder decades...

Police across Illinois would need a warrant to use controversial cellphone trackers under a measure Democratic lawmakers will unveil Wednesday, a move that comes a little more than week after a judge ruled the Chicago Po...

Officials Tuesday suspended the massive search for 12 Marines who were aboard two helicopters that crashed off Hawaii last week.

Peter Dahlin's supporters insist that his confession was scripted

A controversial Danish zoo dissected another lion for a public audience last weekend -- despite widespread worldwide outrage a few months ago for pulling the same stunt. People of all ages -- many of them young children ...

A ninth planet may once again be part of our solar system, according to researchers who said Wednesday they have "good evidence of its existence." Nicknamed Planet Nine, the giant orb -- which has a mass about 10 times t...

When the mercury drops in Minneapolis, the forecast calls for scattered frozen pants. A Minnesota man is posing frozen blue jeans on his lawn and around town to make things sunnier for his neighbor. "I mostly do it for�...

He will make you smile no matter how frozen your face is

It was a case that seemed like it could have been a Hollywood political thriller full of intrigue, possible links to the highest levels of the Russian government and radioactive material. A decade after the murder of Rus...

Satellite photos show Iraq's St. Elijah's has been wiped out Generations of monks tucked candles in the niches, prayed in the cool chapel It also was recently a place of worship for U.S. troops …

Your cat kneads you because she needs you. Her cute though sometimes painful behavior is an action that shows love and trust.  As explained in the SciShow video posted above, kneading is a behavior only domesticated cat...

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced Wednesday that they have found new evidence of a giant icy planet lurking in the darkness of our solar system far beyond …

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican says it is offering a place to stay to a homeless woman who gave birth near St. Peter’s Square. She’s thinking about it. Italian police say a patrol stopped to help the woman after she gav...