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A silent stranger of indeterminate age, gender and ethnicity holds up a mirror to the oddness and hypocrisy of a small American town Catherine Lacey's puzzle of a novel begins with its main character waking up in an Amer...

The Little Fires Everywhere author on rereading Arundhati Roy once a year, and her love for Agatha Christie The book I am currently readingOn Immunity by Eula Biss. I'm rereading it as a reminder of how immunity and well...

Expand Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2018. © 2018 Reuters United States Secretary of State Mi...

Help get this pup out of the Middle East. American soldiers stationed in Syria were on a mission when they heard a small whimpering puppy crying. They stumbled upon a litter of five dead puppies, but one was still alive ...

A proposed new security law has senators calling for sanctions. But the president is reluctant to jeopardize his ties to President Xi Jinping.

CBS unveiled its primetime lineup for the fall during a presentation in New York City on Wednesday. Meg Oliver has the scoop on all the new dramas and comedies coming to America's most-watched TV network.

New Regency will bring to the screen the true story of six Tongan teenagers who survived for 15 months on a remote Pacific island in the 1960s The Hollywood studio behind 12 Years a Slave and The Revenant has won the bat...

The founder of travel website The Points Guy explains how donated airline miles helped LGBT Chechnyans escape persecution and violence.

Illinois House votes for expanded voting by mail, but a budget plan remains elusive

China's proposed new legislation for Hong Kong requires the territory to quickly finish enacting national security regulations under its mini-constitution, the Basic law, according to a draft of the legislation seen by R...

A former Philadelphia election official has pleaded guilty to taking thousands of dollars in bribes to stuff the ballot boxes for Democrats in local races between 2014 and 2016. Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, a former judge of ...

Several people on the Zoom video conference called 911, and the police arrested the son less than an hour later.

Both Caesars Palace and the Flamingo will offer hotel rooms, dining options and access to pools - as well as slot machines and table games.       

A 6-year-old South Carolina boy who was "magnet fishing" in a lake caught a locked safe that was stolen from a nearby resident eight years ago. Knox Brewer reeled in his surprise catch at Whitney Lake with the help of a ...

Todd Muller takes top job in National party ahead of September's election against popular Jacinda Ardern The leader of New Zealand's opposition has been removed by his party in a desperate bid to install a figurehead who...

"Empire" actor Bryshere Gray was a "nuisance tenant" who clogged toilets with condoms and let his dog relieve himself indoors, according to a lawsuit filed last month by his Chicago landlords.

Joe Biden told the host of a New York City-based syndicated radio show that he "ain't black" if he was still pondering whether to support the presumptive Democratic nominee or Donald Trump.

“What do you have to lose?” President Donald Trump asked reporters last week while, once again, promoting the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential coronavirus treatment.  It turns out, as experts hav...

An Airbus plane with 99 on board crashed into a residential area of the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday while on approach to the airport, with at least one passenger surviving but many others feared dead, officials s...

On this week's FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with two experts about the different reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and in China.

You may be picking up on something in your son you recognise, and giving it more meaning than it deserves A few years ago, I sought help for my obsessive-compulsive disorder, which I could trace back to when I was about ...

Femke Halsema angers hoteliers by warning against an excessive return to 'regional, national and international traffic' It might have lost 90% of its hotel bookings but Amsterdam shouldn't rush to welcome back internatio...