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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says car sales faced a "perfect storm" of uncertainty over Brexit and supply shortages.

President Donald Trump confirmed that a U.S. military strike last week killed Jamal al-Badawi, an al-Qaeda operative involved in the deadly 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

In June 2017, the police came to Alan's house around 6 a.m. with a warrant. Alan, a 51-year-old father and IT professional in New Jersey, had never been arrested before. So he was baffled when the police told him he had ...

Wow! Wow! I don't know what to say! This is such an honor! I have to be honest, I wasn't actually watching the Golden Globes when Christian Bale gave his acceptance speech for winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Mo...

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea in what China called a "provocation" as U.S. officials joined talks in Beijing during a truce in a bitter trade war.

The government shutdown is going to keep hundreds of scientists from attending what has been called the “Super Bowl of Astronomy.”        

On Sunday, Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought sent congressional leaders a letter requesting $5 billion for a "steel barrier on the Southwest border," saying the White House believes a "physic...

Only a handful of asylum seekers are let across the border each day. Many are now weighing the risks of hiring "polleros" to sneak them in.

Jose Ramon Fernandez was key to forming the young communist country's army

Ritual animal slaughter has been banned in part of Belgium despite outcry from leaders in the Jewish and Muslim communities.

A repository of Holocaust-era documents says it has uncovered a trove of photographs of survivors of the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp and will make them available online in a searchable …

Briton, 39, died in Poland after taking a Turkish equivalent of Xanax, inquest hears A conspiracy theorist died in Poland after taking a Turkish equivalent of the drug Xanax, an inquest heard. Maxwell Bates-Spiers, widel...

Former Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Christian Zerpa has fled to the United States to protest President Nicolas Maduro's second term that will begin with his inauguration this week, the onetime Maduro backer told a Mi...

The floating boom will be hauled back to dry land for repairs

DiJonai Carrington knocked down a key jumper with 24 seconds left and scored 30 points, Alanna Smith hit consecutive 3-pointers during a key third-quarter burst, and No. 6 Stanford rallied past scrappy UCLA in the second...

In a defiant address on Israeli TV, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded to have the chance to face the state's witnesses in a multi-pronged corruption investigation that may lead to his indictment. "Today, I revea...

The quack Soviet "scientist" Trofim Lysenko used politics to destroy Soviet genetics. Lysenko represented the unscientific view that environment, not genetics, was the explanation. In 1948 the Soviet government banned sc...

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Eric Ayzenberg is producing a five-part series about VR.

A Venezuelan Supreme Court justice who has been a longtime government loyalist has fled to the U.S., saying he's protesting President Nicolas Maduro's plans for a second term. Christian Zerpa …

Mexico's new president has shut down some pipelines to stop fuel thieves who he says had established an illegal distribution network. The fight against thefts of $3 billion per year …

Amnesty International is calling on Poland not to deport a Chechen video blogger and critic of Chechen authorities who is being sought by Russia. The human rights group says that …