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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...

Police hunting for the person who gunned down a suspended Pennsylvania teacher are reportedly focusing on the teenage boy who was caught in a steamed-up car with the 33-year-old woman two years before she was shot to dea...

A total of 45 cases of Ebola have now been reported in Congo in this outbreak

World Health Organization has called for an emergency meeting to decide whether the virus is likely to spread internationally.

Jennifer Aniston is headed to the White House in an upcoming Netflix comedy film, and she's bringing her wife with her.

He said he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members

A road sign with "strange" messages, including one about zombies on it, caught the attention of drivers and police Thursday.        

A Michigan woman was fired after she baked brownies laced with laxatives for a co-worker's sendoff, authorities said.

"So I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," the tech mogul said.

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Cops in New Jersey came under fire this week for allegedly harassing fellow officers and employees with a large blue dildo, dubbed “Big Blue” — and now there’s a video that shows it. Footage obtained by NJ Advanc...

In a country where there is no Twitter but lots of fake news, North Koreans are getting a very different take on what got Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump to the negotiating table

Paul Manafort's former son-in-law has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department, according to media reports.The deal, according to Reuters, requiresJeffrey Yohai, Manfort's former business partner and son-in-law, to co...

UN Human Rights Council decides to urgently dispatch investigators to probe Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

(Reuters) - Police rushed to a high school in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday after an assailant with a gun wounded people in the latest shooting to rock a country still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in Febru...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken office for a third straight term and used the moment to call for beefed-up borders to cope with migrants.

A Texas father was arrested Wednesday for allegedly covering his 18-month-old daughter with a blanket and leaving her in a car as the temperature inside reached 112 degrees, authorities said. Gene Curry, 24, left the car...

By raising the prospect of a spy in his 2016 campaign, the president weighed into a simmering battle between federal law enforcement officials and his allies on Capitol Hill.

The Israeli prime minister's success has proved that illiberalism can prevail.

South Korea said Friday it believes North Korea remains committed to improving relations despite strongly criticizing Seoul over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and insisting it will not return to …

Now that's an explosive lawsuit! A US defense contractor inadvertently got a bomb-loaded military drone past TSA agents and onto a Delta flight in 2015, endangering the lives of about 230 passengers, according to a whist...

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