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Welcome to Slate's weekly news quiz. It's Friday, which means it's time to test your knowledge of the week's news events. Your host, Ray Hamel, has concocted questions on news topics ranging from politics to business, fr...

The flag ritual comes comes from military history

Lawyers for a death row inmate are asking Ohio Gov. John Kasich to spare their client's life, arguing that the 69-year-old killer of an 18-year-old man is in such poor health that he should be spared. Alva Campbell uses ...

UNION CITY, N.J. -- A New Jersey woman accused of hitting a man in the head with a coffee mug has been indicted on a manslaughter charge months after his death. The Jersey Journal reports that 55-year-old Alina Lescaille...

For this new mom, what were supposed to be the happiest days of her life quickly escalated into a terrifying ordeal that left her as a quadruple amputee. Lindsey Hubley, from Canada, didn’t seem to face any complicatio...

'The strength of the Army does not come from its technology, but its soldiers'

Four drug couriers, including a former New York-based model, were sentenced Friday to jail for importing cocaine into Australia in a trip organized by a former Vice Media editor. The men - disc jockey Jordan Mykel Gardne...

SONOMA, Calif.

Federal officials say a pipe bomb that detonated in an East Chicago post office and bullet with a threatening note attached were both the work of a Munster man arrested and charged Thursday. Eric Krieg, 45, of Munster, w...

Sen. Susan Collins will remain a thorn in President Trump's side in Washington - after announcing Friday that she will stay out of the Maine governor's race. "I am a congenital optimist. I continue to believe that Congre...

From Iran to Obamacare, here's what mattered

As the United Nations wound down its 13 1/2-year peacekeeping operation in Haiti last month, Sandra Honoré, the Trinidadian diplomat who had steered the country through a deadly hurricane, a …

UNESCO's next chief will come from either Qatar or France as candidates were winnowed down ahead of a decisive vote Friday on the future of the U.N. cultural agency. The …

Trump will announce that the pact is not in U.S. national security interests

A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted three times in one hour as she walked home from a night out in London last month, local police said Friday. The terrifying trio of attacks unfolded between 11:55 p.m. Sept. 29 an...

Nothing yet. But it could matter for people who buy their own insurance or get it from work in the long-term.

Several employees were injured after a fire was set in the prison's sewing room.

Final destination believed to Aleppo as convoy of 12 armoured carriers carrying 80 soldiers cross border to enter Idlib.

At least 28 people died in one of the deadliest California wildfires on record.        

Dozens of people, including refugees and Kurdish Asayish members, reportedly killed near Deir Az Zor-Hasaka border.

John and Jan Pascoe spent six hours in a neighbor's swimming pool while the fires raged around them.

For the first time, MGM Resorts International is providing specific details about the shooting