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Many of the foreigners who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State, at least in ISIS's big recruitment push in 2013 and 2014, had only rudimentary knowledge of Islam, with two Britons who joined ordering The Koran fo...

Kurdish officials say Peshmerga forces attempting to capture Mosul from the Islamic State launched an attack against militants early Sunday. A commander said 12 villages have been taken from ISIS, and Kurdish forces are ...

More than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes

Nearly 1 million gallons of clean water were pumped into the pool to clear it up

Two climbers, a paraglider, a hanglider and a wingsuit jumper all lost their lives in spate of tragedies over two days in France Five people have died in a deadly weekend for extreme sports in the French Alps that claime...

Three Hong Kong student protest leaders have avoided prison time for taking part in an illegal rally that sparked pro-democracy street protests two years ago. …

Shots are fired during new protests in Milwaukee, police say, as demonstrators take to the streets for a second night.

Most of us feel pretty guilty about wasting food.  Yet as much as 40 percent of the food produced in America goes uneaten. Many restaurants are reluctant (for no good reason) to donate leftovers. Consumers turn their no...

The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhe...

At least seven paramilitary troops were wounded, three critically, after suspected rebels sprayed them with gunfire in the main city of troubled Indian Kashmir on Monday, officials said. …

The New York Times reports today on the latest about Paul Manafort, favored lobbyist of sleazy dictators worldwide and currently Donald Trump's campaign chairman: Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s ...

Horse dancing (also known by the far more boring name of "dressage") is one of the stranger Olympic sports, right up there with duet synchronized swimming and race walking. Like the women's gymnastics floor routines, dre...

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to declare end to nation building if elected president, the candidate plans to announce in a Monday speech

"Unfounded, silly, and nonsensical"

In southern Louisiana, at least 20,000 people have been evacuated amid what Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) calls "unprecedented" and "historic" flooding that followed up to 24 inches of rain in 48 hours. That number includes ...

Protests in Milwaukee following the police shooting of an armed African American man intensified as demonstrators reportedly threw objects and fired shots Monday shortly after midnight, according to police.

A pilot issued a distress signal Sunday morning with the small aircraft going down moments later short of a runway

Killers wielding assault rifles shot eight men to death on the outskirts of the capital before dawn Sunday, Honduran authorities said, blaming a territorial dispute between rival street gangs. …

On Monday, Rudy Giuliani — the mayor of New York City from 1994 to Dec. 31, 2001 — told the audience attending Donald Trump's foreign policy speech in Youngstown, Ohio, that "before Obama came along, we didn't have a...

Austrian authorities have arrested nine Iraqi men on suspicion of rape for an attack on a German tourist in Vienna on New Year's Day, police said Monday. …

The mother of a kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl is demanding that Nigeria's president free detained Boko Haram militants in exchange for the more than 200 girls held captive, as the Islamic extremists have offered. …

Phelps and Bolt are two of the most recognizable Olympic athletes in the world and have the endorsement deals and career earnings to prove it.