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Spike Lee finally won his first non-honorary Oscar, and the filmmaker's reaction, both in his powerful words and in his joyful dance moves, was the most memorable of the night.

South Korean officials hinted that U.S. and North Korea may declare war end.

Hello, Slate readers. I'm reporting to you from an alternate universe where everything on Earth is more or less the same: Donald Trump is still the president, Amazon is still not opening a headquarters in New York City, ...

President Trump's relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has come a long way since the former mockingly referred to the latter as "Little Rocket Man" and Kim returned the favor by calling Trump a "mentally der...

Three senior Trump administration officials told The Washington Post the White House is planning on creating a working group comprised of specific federal scientists who will counter that the burning of fossil fuels is b...

He said there was "substantial progress" in weekend talks between the countries.

52-year singer was charged Friday with 10 counts​ of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four women, including three minors

The ongoing struggle between Venezuela’s authoritarian government, the opposition and the international community reached dramatic new heights over the weekend. Attempts to bring foreign humanitarian aid into the count...

Donald Trump Jr. made up his own Oscars category Sunday night: “Best performance in a politically motivated hate crime hoax.” In an Academy Awards-themed tweet, the first son asked his followers to choose between the...

A woman who worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign alleges in a lawsuit he kissed her without consent, The Washington Post reports. Alva Johnson claims that in August 2016, Trump grabbed her hand and kissed her outsi...

Hours before flying to Vietnam for another face-to-face meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, President Trump predicted a "tremendous summit."        

Morocco's equine therapy program for disabled kids looked a success with Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan as they wrapped up their visit to Morocco.        

Six American troops were hospitalized Sunday - two in serious condition - after the van they were riding veered off the road and rolled over in southwestern Poland. A seventh was treated at the scene.

"No other sentence in the U.S. Code," technology scholar David Post has written, "has been responsible for the creation of more value than" a little-known provision of the Communications Decency Act called Section 230. B...

Prime Minister Theresa May stepped up her warnings on Monday that delaying Brexit was no way to solve the impasse in parliament over Britain's departure from the European Union, saying a timely exit was "within our grasp...

President Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is set to testify before Congress this week. CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid joined CBSN from the White House with what to expect from his testimony...

The National Rifle Association is facing backlash over an ad with the headline 'Target Practice' next to an image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.        

A 13-year-old cheerleader at a Kentucky middle school died suddenly after getting sick just before a competition on Saturday, district officials said. Lilliana Schalck, an eighth-grader at Highlands Middle School in Fort...

The city of Simi Valley, California, has reached a $21 million settlement with a man who spent almost 40 years behind bars in the 1978 killings of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son. Craig Coley, 71, was released from...

Wall Street's three major indexes ended higher on Monday but well below the session's highs after President Donald Trump said he would delay a planned hike in tariffs on Chinese imports.

Nobody in Hollywood really wants to host the Oscars, but if Sunday's hostless telecast taught us anything, it's that someone certainly needs to.        

Well-known disability rights advocate Carrie Anne Lucas dies at age 47. Who was she and why you probably didn't know her.