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The dog days of summer are here. Which portions of the country experience "oppressive" heat/humidity during the afternoons of the core summer months?

Brock Turner, whose sexual assault of an incapacitated woman drew national headlines, lost his bid for a new trial, paving the way for him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.        

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit Indonesia's Lombok island on Thursday, causing some buildings to collapse, according to witnesses and the Southeast Asian nation's meteorology and geophysics agency.

President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have learned the hard way that breakups are rough. Ever since Sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation into whether Trump's campaign was involved with ...

Billy Ray Irick was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl. Tennessee must follow a strict procedure to carry out execution.        

An offshore typhoon brought rain and strong winds to Japan's northeast coast Thursday, but no major damage was reported as the storm did not make landfall. Typhoon Shanshan weakened somewhat …

Pentagon and NATO brass have issued fresh warnings about increased Russian naval activity in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, with the top U.S. Navy admiral saying this week Russian submarine operations are curr...

Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza after Hamas militants fired rockets into its territory amid efforts to achieve a long-term ceasefire agreement.

The city of Charlottesville declared a state of emergency ahead of the one-year anniversary of a violent white nationalist rally

For two brothers, a single dog tag belonging to a man they never knew brought a flood of unexpected emotions when it was returned last week by North Korea. Charles McDaniel Jr. was home in Indianapolis when he got a phon...

President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said there is collusion going on – by special counsel Robert Mueller – and it’s “going to blow up on them.” “The reality is, the real story is not that this c...

A 16-year-old girl was lucky to be alive after getting pushed off a three-story bridge at a park in Washington state, relatives said. In a jarring 9-second clip, Jordan Holgerson is seen hesitating atop a bridge in Moult...

The farmer plucks a cannabis flower from a long stalk. He presses it against his nose, inhales deeply and begins to extol the therapeutic -- if not necessarily scientific -- properties of his crop.

The Gaza Health Ministry says a pregnant woman, her 1-year-old daughter and a Hamas fighter have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The ministry said Thursday that …

PAYSON, Ariz. -- Authorities say a woman is undergoing a medical evaluation after allegedly abandoning her three young children along a north-central Arizona highway and later being found wandering naked. Arizona Departm...

US imposing new sanctions against Russia over poisoning in Britain

Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in last September, journalists and researchers have insisted that the island's official death toll of 67 was far, far too low. The government now admits that there were "1,427...

"So triggered"

Dozens are dead after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a school bus in Yemen on Thursday, and most of those killed are believed to be children. The bus was struck while driving through Houthi rebel-held northern Syria on its wa...

Former hard-line Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked President Hassan Rouhani to resign. In a video published on his Telegram account Thursday, Ahmadinejad said that Iranians do not trust Rouhani. …

An Afghan official says an attack targeting a local police commander in western Hirat province has killed two people and wounded the police official and 10 civilians. Gelani Farhad, spokesman …

Last year'sUnite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought together white nationalists. However, women were noticeably underrepresented.