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Militants claiming loyalty to ISIS have seized the university in the central Libyan city of Sirte, residents said, days after a video showed them staging a convoy parade.

Two news studies found Neanderthals likely bred longer with ancestors of Asians than Europeans, resulting in higher levels of Neanderthal DNA in modern East Asians.

Under the agreement, U.S. officials plan to train about 5,000 fighters a year for three years.

The U.S. attorney's office says Minnesota teen Hamza Naj Ahmed tried to board a plane in New York bound for Istanbul.

American allies on the ground in Iraq aren’t getting weapons, and some of them are even defecting to ISIS.

As the deadline nears, Greece's largest debt-holder denied a request for extra time to negotiate loans.

In the U.S., few Chinese New Year celebrations are as big as those thrown in the San Francisco-Bay Area region of California.

The huge retailer is boosting wages to $10 an hour, but critics say the company can afford a more generous increase.

The highest class of drugs is reserved for those considered highly addictive and thought to have no medicinal value.

HBO, AMC, Warner Brothers and other global entertainment companies have started to look for patterns in the piracy.

Samsung's Apple Pay competitor may be vastly different from NFC systems after all.

Medicinal pot is already legal in Vermont, but experts say regulated recreational weed could earn the state more than $125 million.

The nonlethal drones will help the Ukrainian military's reconnaissance operations.

U.S. intelligence officials say one factor that could bar an alliance is that "the Arab world is incredibly racist."

The attack ad against Jeb Bush features a ceremony where he gives Hillary Clinton a public service award.

Wal-Mart says profits will be impacted by “additional strategic wage and training investments for U.S. associates that were announced today.”

A sign the world of glossy magazines is going to take Apple Watch seriously as a fashion accessory.

Global crude prices dipped below $59 a barrel Thursday after reports of growing U.S. crude inventories and rising Saudi output.

The program will launch in the fall to coincide with the National Parks Service's 100th birthday.

“The world is heading towards a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries, which have been treatable for decades, can once again kill.”

A Justice Department lawsuit against the Ferguson, Missouri police department could spur reforms in policing nationwide, some civil rights leader have said.