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Stephen Hawking, author of "A Brief History of Time," died at 76.

President Donald Trump is souring on his embattled Veterans Affairs secretary, David Shulkin, and telling aides he might replace him as part of a broader shake-up of his Cabinet, according to three advisers to the presid...

About half of all plants and animals in 35 of the world's most biodiverse places are at risk of extinction due to climate change, a new report claims.

SPANAWAY, Wash. -- A member of the U.S. Air Force in Washington state fatally shot his two young children and his wife before killing himself, authorities said Tuesday. The Pierce County sheriff’s office said they foun...

The United Nations has been in the spotlight for several years over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers

TOKYO/SEOUL – Japan’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he personally regretted the departure of “frank, trustworthy” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of a proposed summit between President Donald Tru...

Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking has died at age 76, according to his family.        

Lee Myung-bak is the fifth former South Korean president to be questioned by prosecutors on corruption accusations since the 1990s.

"I figured since the word 'education' is literally in your job title, you'd probably like to fix this."

One person was being questioned after a man was stabbed to death Tuesday evening in an apartment building in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side, police said. Police were called to the 2500 block of W...

The doors to NFL free agency officially open at 3 p.m. Wednesday. But Bears general manager Ryan Pace has already scratched off some of the most notable items on his shopping list during the pre-order phase by agreeing t...

Students at more than 2,800 schools were staging walkouts Wednesday hoping to spur changes in gun laws.        

Prosecutors said she knew his plans in advance; lawyer says she was coerced to sign confession.        

Israel's government watchdog has taken aim at the military's "Hannibal" directive -- a controversial tactic used when soldiers were abducted. The directive, used most recently during a 2014 war in …

Yogi, a dog with human-like expression and piercing eyes, has caused an Internet sensation.        

That's one way to make a meal last. The owners of a restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam where former president Barack Obama and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain feasted for $6 have enshrined the table and blue plastic stools whe...

At just 17, Draylen Mason had the "chops" to study music in college and one day play the bass or piano professionally, his instructors said. The Austin teen, in fact, was well on his way to making that dream a reality, h...

Students from hundreds of schools across the city walked out of class Wednesday in honor of kids who were gunned down in Florida.

A month after massacre, emotional and physical wounds of students still raw.

A Florida Department of Citrus employee has been arrested for improperly using the agency's computers to mine for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, the Tampa Bay Times reports. The computers are typically reserved for matte...

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A Pennsylvania man has been charged with killing his wife after a priest said the 44-year-old dad confessed to the murder.