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Little-known pol Barack Obama had his credit card declined at a rental car counter 16 years ago -- an embarrassing moment that nearly led him out of politics, the outgoing president revealed. Obama, then an Illinois stat...

This ginger-bearded jihadi casts a spell of doom on an elderly prisoner - ordering his execution after accusing him of being a wizard. The red-maned radical reads the charges against the blindfolded pensioner in a town s...

The fastest mammal in the world is racing toward extinction. A disheartening study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the world. “Gi...

The story of Robert Durst, awaiting trial in the killing of his friend Susan Berman, is familiar. But her story, that of a skilled storyteller racked by depression, is only now emerging.

It was a jailhouse crock. A gang member accused of killing one of Gov. Cuomo's top aides targeted the city Department of Correction commissioner with a bogus excessive-force claim -- and it took the jails boss weeks to c...

The public in the United Kingdom is growing concerned over Queen Elizabeth II's health after the British monarch skipped mass on Christmas Day for the first time in decades. Buckingham Palace said the queen had a "heavy ...

Americans just can’t stop sticking things in themselves and each other. Renewing an inward-looking annual tradition, Deadspin has released an inventory of items that people stuffed, shoehorned or otherwise deposited in...

President-elect tweeted Monday afternoon in response to President Obama's comments saying he would have been able to "mobilize" Americans in 2016 - if only he had been allowed to run again

Police in New Delhi, India, announced Monday they had arrested four men over drugging and raping an U.S. tourist at her five-star-hotel on April 9. The woman in her early thirties, who had been sightseeing in India with ...

Carrie Fisher: A Life in Pictures

A resident at the San Diego Zoo came within inches of becoming a poaching victim instead of part of a conservation program. Zoo authorities say that after southern white rhino Wallis came to the zoo from South Africa in ...

Is Remy Ma feuding with Nicki Minaj? While Ma has not directly addressed the issue, many believe that her verse in the remix of the song "Wait a Minute" is directed at Minaj. In the song, Ma says: "Same [people] call me,...

Some "Sense8" fans were a bit shocked when they tuned into the Christmas episode. When Capheus was last seen, Aml Ameen was in the role. Now, however, Toby Onwumere is playing the bus driver. Audiences had a quite a few ...

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A peek at the long runs of the closing shows "Fiddler on the Roof," "The Color Purple," "Something Rotten!," "Matilda the Musical" and "Jersey Boys."

A high-end Manhattan carpet store might be selling a reconstruction of a tapestry owned by King Henry VIII, according to a Cambridge professor. The tapestry may date to the late 1500s and was based on one originally comm...

Booby-traps and surveillance cameras help in the fight against "porch pirates."

Questions remain after the president of Nigeria praised the army for forcing fighters from their forest stronghold.

A Mexican girl’s 15th birthday party, which had turned into a viral sensation, also turned tragic Monday - when one of the thousands of guests was fatally trampled by a horse. About 1.3 million people RSVP'd when Rubi ...

It looks like Chris Brown is still not over Karrueche Tran. The "Party" singer made sure that the model knows that he still thinks about her by commenting on a photo she posted on Instagram. In a photo of Tran wearing re...

"Shadowhunters" star Isaiah Mustafa is ready to settle down. The actor took to Twitter to share the news that he asked his girlfriend Lisa Mitchell to marry him during their vacation in New Zealand. Mustafa shared a vide...

A California tech genius affiliated with Facebook was busted in a sex sting involving an undercover detective posing as a 15-year-old girl, according to published reports. Dov Katz, a top computer engineer at the Faceboo...