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Here’s something a little perplexing. It’s state Rep. Ted James (D-Baton Rouge), one of the more irresponsible and inflammatory leftists in Louisiana, running his trap about...

A professor at the Corpus Christi Del Mar Community College, Adrian Clark, posted on Facebook that he was offering extra credit to his political science students if they voted for...

Splinter Is This Our Idiot President’s Most Pathetic Response To a Very Bad News Event Yet? | Deadspin Skateboarder Says Former Pro, USA Skateboarding Executive Abused Her...

The first time I stepped inside my studio apartment in New York City, I knew it was perfect. It had three closets (big find for NYC). It had an alcove, so the bed wasn’t, like, in the sink...

Hours before a Donald Trump rally in Wisconsin, several of the president's favorite verbal punching bags became targets of very real threats.        ...

Merril Hoge, a former NFL player and ESPN analyst, says "there's no scientific evidence" that football causes CTE.      

Potential explosives sent to homes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as CNN’s New York studios and Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s offices in Florida were evacuatedPipe bombs...

Country is in ‘clear and present danger’ of mass deaths from starvation, top aid official saysYemen is sliding fast toward what could become one of the worst famines in living...

Fan translations of movies and video games, while wildly popular in many different countries, have also come under recent attack. Claims of copyright infringement have been leveled...

Turkey's government has already locked up more than 70 journalists -- most of them in the wake of a failed coup. President Recep Erdogan says the imprisoned journalists are terrorists...

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The US president was speaking after a series of suspect packages were sent to high-profile figures.

US stock markets plunge on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq suffering its worst day since August 2011.

The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, says a new...

A diverse coalition representing health care providers, non-profit organizations, workers, seniors, patients and academics has come together to issue a statement of consensus...

President Trump called for unity after suspicious packages were sent to multiple people and organizations including the Obamas, Clintons and CNN's New York office...

The suspicious package sent to CNN's New York offices at Time Warner Center was addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan. CNN's Evan Perez has more...

Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: Breitbart Prepares to Sue Sleeping Giants Over Lost Advertisers  —  Breitbart has lost hundreds of advertisers because of the group's campaign. ...

Jim Geraghty / National Review: The 2018 Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ May Be a Dud  —  Making the click-through worthwhile: Some big media voices sound the alarm that the 2018 “blue...

Redmond runs rampant, reaps ridiculous record revenues If Microsoft is sweating from the heat it's taking on Windows 10 release quality, its financial figures certainly aren't...

Disinterest in GPU gear spurs selloff, but x86 biz insists all's well, nothing to see here AMD stock plunged following the release of the chip designer's third-quarter financial...

Photographer Mathieu Stern made a camera lens from a chunk of an iceberg.

Software is being used to scrape phone numbers and send thousands of messages in minutes.

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Over 90 percent of bird species in Southeast Asia have seen their populations decline due to habitat loss and hunting. Sign the petition to demand these rare, exotic, and beautiful...

Over one billion agricultural workers suffer from starvation. The men, women, and children working to feed the planet are the planet's hungriest. Something must be done to protect...

Ekurhuleni Metro Police have arrested a Grade 11 pupil at Fumana High School in Katlehong after he allegedly attempted to stab fellow pupils.

Jabulani Tsambo, better known by his stage name Hip Hop Pantsula, has died at the age of 38.

Enough oxygen could exist within salty subsurface water on Mars to support oxygen-breathing microbes. In a new study, planetary scientist Vlada Stamen...

The life-size replica of the ill-fated vessel will retrace the route taken by the original Titanic on its maiden voyage. With an estimated price tag o...

Agents at Liverpool flats faced 13 prosecutions last year as housing benefit flowed abroadA Liverpool tower block that had more housing prosecutions in 2017 than any other building...

Official U-turn after revelation that database is empty and would be secret anywayTheresa May has pledged to give tenants access to the government’s new rogue landlord database...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will never return to Earth — but it can still look back on where it came from.

Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among the targets of suspected package bombs delivered to several high-profile Democrats...

Two people were shot dead at a grocery store in the U.S. state of Kentucky and one suspect was detained

The FBI is warning there could be more suspicious packages moving through the system after pipe bombs addressed to former U.S. president Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN and other...

Quebec's new government wants to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab...

President Trump began his campaign rally in Wisconsin by addressing the suspicious packages, saying that "any attacks or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy...

U.S. stocks moved sharply lower in later afternoon trading on Wednesday. The Dow lost more than 600 points. The major U.S. indexes are all negative on the year now...

Presidential challenger Sean Gallagher attacked the Government as candidates in the race for the Park struggled to make an impact as the incumbent stayed away from the final debate...

The event took place ahead of election day on Friday.

Shares of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd were set to fall 2.5 percent on Thursday after the airline said data of about 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and its unit, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines...

DATIAN, China: A Chinese entrepreneur is reviving old ways of wok-making and hopes to tap into growing demand for niche, handmade goods from China's young, affluent consumers. Tian...

Asthma is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease worldwide; affecting 358 million people in 2015—including 14 percent of the world’s children. Pollutant concentrations...

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Broomsticks, pointy hats, black cats and big noses: there’s no costume more timeless and classic than a witch. But even more important than her famous accessories, the modern-day...

Romaine lettuce is a healthy, popular variety of head lettuce, which is relatively easy to grow in a home garden or planter. Romaine can be harvested in 1 of 2 ways: you can harvest the...

by John Feffer In his recent speeches and articles, Bernie Sanders has been talking about forming a Progressive International. It’s about time. The alt-right, thanks in part...

by Sam Hamad As the world continues to follow the murder of Jamal Khashoggi with a sense of horror and outrage, you might forgive the relative silence surrounding the arrest of...

A shocking new investigation by immigrant rights groups reveals how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting Trump's incarceration...

In Kansas, local officials are under fire for moving a majority-Latino city's single polling site outside of city limits, more than a mile from the nearest bus stop. Dodge City, Kansas...

The president addressed the recent wave of suspicious packages targeting prominent Democrats and CNN at the beginning of a campaign rally in Wisconsin Wednesday night...

As thousands of migrants move toward the U.S., these are the programs President Trump is threatening to cut in retaliation.

The drug's approval was based on two clinical trials of more than 1,800 patients who took either Xofluza, a placebo or another antiviral flu treatment within 48 hours of experiencing...

In a new study, scientists reported an increase in heart attacks in low temperature, strong wind, fewer hours of sunshine and low atmospheric pressure...