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His name is synonymous with his field: He was a founding editor of "Schwartz's Principles of Surgery," a seminal textbook for medical students.

Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi was accused of conducting a rivalry with the queen and was stripped of her titles last year.

The Rock said it has been "one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family."

They say he is sowing confusion about systems that already have robust checks against fraud.

A 36-year-old Seattle man threatened to blow up a Portland police station with an “undetectable” bomb unless police stood down from Black Lives Matter protests in the Oregon city, the US Attorney’s Office announced...

The Chicago Zoological Society is working to save rare and endangered Blanding's turtles by breeding the turtles and releasing them into a DuPage County forest preserve west of Chicago.

The US, which began formal withdrawal from WHO in July, owes some $62m to the agency in membership dues.

A prominent Venezuelan opposition figure said he is supporting congressional elections in December that Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader backed by the U.S., has pledged to boycott.

A shooting involving Cook County sheriff's police happened on Wednesday evening.

A Minnesota man who attended South Dakota's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last month has died of coronavirus, health officials announced Wednesday. The man, in his 60s, had underlying health conditions and was hospitalized be...

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is backing Joe Biden for president, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to support the Democratic nominee over President Donald Trump

A missing Los Angeles firefighter may have been violently kidnapped in Mexico, city officials said. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that the city is working to ensure Francisco Aguilar, a 20-year Los Angeles Fire Depa...

A German mom killed her five kids Thursday and then tried -- but failed -- to end her own life by jumping in front of an oncoming train, reports said.

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Two paranoid parents in Sweden locked away their three kids in separate rooms for four months -- and even nailed the front door shut -- to protect them from catching the coronavirus. The extreme measures began in March, ...

The new head of New York City’s sex crimes unit is a veteran investigator and forensic nurse who has conducted the physical exams and evidence collection that are vital to solving such cases

A Florida woman stabbed a police officer and was then fatally shot as she lunged toward another officer, dramatic bodycam video shows. The footage, released Tuesday, shows Leah Baker, 29, storming out of a northwest Jack...

What is the political fallout of urban violence? And is the media just buying into it?

MacKenzie Scott -- philanthropist, author and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos -- is now the wealthiest woman in the world.

Dwayne Johnson revealed in an Instagram video that he and his family members have tested positive for COVID-19.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling on President Vladimir Putin to provide answers after confirming that one of the Russian leader's top critics was poisoned. Alexei Navalny was attacked with the same military-gra...

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has arrived in Wisconsin, where he’ll meet with relatives of Jacob Blake and hold a discussion with business figures, civic leaders and law enforcement officials