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Thirteen and just married, Jie looks at her wedding picture framed in white. Next to it, incongruously, are stickers from the Pixar movie "Cars."

Pilot Andreas Lubitz -- who intentionally crashed the plane into a mountainside, killing all 150 people aboard -- had been treated for depression

Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump have made their peace. The Fox News anchor secretly spent an hour with the Republican presidential candidate yesterday at the Trump Tower, where she tried to charm him into appearing with her...

China is punishing 357 officials as it deals with the fallout from a nationwide public health scandal over the sale of improperly handled vaccines. …

An open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon signed by more than 1,000 people, including financier Warren Buffett, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and rock star Sting, says the war on drugs has failed and calls for a ...

Microsoft filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department Thursday, alleging that laws that prevent the company from telling its customers when their data -- specifically their email -- is being accessed by the federal go...

The firm agreed to help scrub records of the incident from Google

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday that the violent influence of the Islamic State group could be emboldening militants in the southern Philippines who last week killed 18 Filipino troops. …

A year after Europe's top human rights body said France was not doing enough to prevent corporal punishment of children, the French government is sending guidance to all future parents. …

European Union lawmakers approved Thursday a scheme to share airline passenger information that nations hope to use to track foreign fighters travelling to and from conflict areas like Syria and who might pose a danger i...

The Israeli military says it has shot and killed a Palestinian assailant who attacked a soldier with an ax in the West Bank. …

WASHINGTON – The U.S.-led coalition staged 21 strikes on Wednesday against the Islamic State militant group, according to the coalition leading the operations in Iraq and Syria. In a statement released on Thursday, the...

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 has struck southern Japan

It would seem that this year science and math are king on the job market. Positions that require skills in numbers and sciences are some of the top positions to hold, according to a recently released ranking of the best ...

Evanston police have arrested a 29-year-old Chicago man on a gun charge in connection with a Howard Street parking lot shooting Feb. 10 stemming from an argument over a traffic altercation. Christopher D. Lawson, of the ...

Chinese authorities said Thursday that 18 people were killed and another 18 were injured in an accident at a construction site in Dongguan city in the eastern Guandong province Wednesday. The accident occurred after a cr...

The deportations have outraged Taiwan, which does not recognize Chinese jurisdiction

The campaign manager of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be prosecuted over charges of misdemeanor battery over allegations he grabbed the arm of a reporter, according to a published report.

Canada's new assisted suicide law to be announced on Thursday will exclude non-Canadians, which means Americans won't be able to travel to Canada to die. …

Celebrities including Rosario Dawson and Spike Lee were also spoke.

Nearly six years after being paralyzed from his chest down, Ian Burkhart has regained control of his right hand and fingers with the help of a computer chip implanted in his brain and other technology that bypass his spi...

Bernie Sanders has pulled to within 10 points of Hillary Clinton among New York voters, according a new poll Wednesday -- slashing her lead from 21 points just a month ago in the same survey. Clinton leads, 52 percent to...