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Only a handful of indusrial spills have been investigated by federal regulators

OMAHA, Neb. -- Police say a 30-year-old Omaha, Nebraska, man accidentally shot his pinky finger after falling asleep holding his new handgun. The Omaha World-Herald reports the accident happened early Tuesday. Police say...

BRISBANE, Australia -- A helicopter carrying American tourists crashed at a coral-viewing site on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, killing two and injuring two others, police said. The helicopter pilot pulled one passen...

In the small community of Tysfjord in northern Norway, sexual abuse was rife for decades. How come it was never stopped?

One lawmaker called it a "major breakthrough."

Airports get $1 billion in new federal grants in the spending bill unveiled Wednesday, but not a hike in fees they sought for construction projects.        

Garry McCarthy, who was unceremoniously fired by Rahm Emanuel in 2015, announces he will take him on.        

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Dashcam video captured the moments a pedestrian bridge near Florida International University collapsed on top of cars that killed six.

Footage released on Wednesday shows the moment a self-driving Uber killed a person crossing the street in Tempe, Arizona. The self-driving vehicle appears to proceed at a normal pace while a woman walking with a bicycle ...

Katy Waldman writes about a new crop of literary advice columns, such as the New York Times' "Match Book," the Paris Review Daily's "Poetry Rx," and Lit Hub's "Dear Book Therapist."

Naperville entrepreneurs may shape the next generation of technology in the world. Plans are in the works to transform a 200,000-square-foot section of the Nokia campus in the Interstate 88 corridor into an incubator for...

Explosion hits busy road outside popular hotel in central Mogadishu.

The 2018 Olympic Winter Games may be over, and the Paralympic Winter Games may have also come to a close in PyeongChang, but Prince William and Kate Middleton haven’t forgotten about their nation’s sports players, po...

A finance professional and a teenage bass player were killed in a series of bombings that left five others injured and Texas' capital city on edge.

Social media important for conveying Labour message, says party leader during campaign launch Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not be closing down his Facebook page after revelations about the site allowing the massive mis...

A national parks worker on a quest to find a gingerbread treehouse in a Washington forest discovered the storied cabin — and in it, a stash of kiddie porn that led to one creep’s arrest. The cabin - tucked deep in th...

At least nine people have been killed and seven others are wounded in a car bomb blast near a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, a Somali police officer said Thursday. …

A South Korean court says it has approved an arrest warrant for ex-President Lee Myung-bak over corruption allegations. Thursday's decision by the Seoul Central District Court means prosecutors can immediately …

Body-camera footage shows the moment Sacramento police open fire on an unarmed black man, killing him in a flurry of bullets. Stephan Alonzo Clark, 22, was shot as many as 20 times by two police officers who chased him i...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, or twice the size of Texas.