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Oxford University got caught up in the fake news epidemic this week when international media began to circulate a report that the school's student union told people to use gender neutral pronouns when speaking.

Architects know that a hole isn't always empty.

A Toys 'R' Us executive who embezzled nearly $2 million from the company was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in prison. Daniel Chon, 29, who was the director of transportation at the company, used debit card...

At a league meeting, owners showed signs of grudging support for relocating the teams to Los Angeles and Las Vegas as soon as next season.

The officer, Dominique Heaggan-Brown, killed Sylville K. Smith just after Mr. Smith threw a gun away and he lay on the ground, prosecutors said.

People living illegally in warehouses in Oakland, Calif., are worried since the Ghost Ship fire, but lawmakers are working on legislation that might allow them to stay.

"I should probably tell you something now, to get it out of the way," cautions Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring present-day actress, to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a stoic young jazz pianist, at a turning point in La La Land,...

Intense traffic, a strong multicultural vibe, big global businesses -- and yet you can still feed giraffes and elephants within the city limits.

Aleppo has fallen. And much of the West is awash in a considerable amount of guilt over the Syrian city's fate. The Eiffel Tower was dark yesterday in honor of the victims of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Aleppo. In Britai...

Putin arrives in Japan to discuss row over islands that prevents the two countries from formally ending World War II.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has its fair share of challenges--no one disputes that. Still, over the last two years under Secretary Bob McDonald, VA has made irrefutable progress through the MyVA transformatio...

TIME looks back on this year's most striking weather photos, from the beautiful to the extreme

The most important thing Donald Trump can do for the United States is bigger than making America great again. It's something far more ambitious and historic, something that benefits not just Americans, but the entire hum...

“Barry,” Netflix’s new original film on President Barack Obama’s junior year at Columbia University, follows a young Obama navigating relationships with his estranged Kenyan father, his Kansas-born mother and cla...

U.S. Intelligence has a Jan. 20 deadline to complete the investigation into attempts to disrupt the election

A Cuban activist warned President-elect Donald Trump Thursday not to accept Cuban leaders as equals, saying that Cuban officials are unlikely ever to do anything that doesn't benefit their interests. …

The city discriminated on the basis of religion when it refused to approve the mosque, the DOJ said

Despite international pressure, human rights abuses in Thailand's fishing industry persist on ships active in remote, unpoliced waters, a new Greenpeace report claims.

No group has claimed bringing down Flight 804 after it crashed as it approached Egypt's northern coast on May 19.

From giraffe kisses to country music, spend some time with the delights of Kenya's capital.

Attack targeting security forces kills at least five soldiers and wounds a dozen others with al-Shabab group suspected.