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Experts started destroying the regime’s chemical-weapons arsenal Sunday, witnesses say.

“Grand Theft Auto V,” a visit to the doctor’s office and a bike ride are highlights of one darkly funny, yet boring, day during the shutdown.

Crafty National Weather Service employees -- who are working without pay as the federal government shutdown continues -- hid a covert plea to "please pay us" within a forecast dispatch posted on the agency's website Friday.

The HuffPo's Weird News team has acquired a fish with a scary reputation.

The video reveals police approaching a black sedan with guns drawn before the vehicle speeds away from the scene and down a street.

Meet Miriam Carey, the dental hygienist identified in news reports as the suspect in the shooting incident that left Capitol Hill on lockdown.

Capitol police are "essential employees," who must report to work despite the lapse in funding for federal operations, but they're still not being paid.

Meet Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, Tom Clancy's wife, who was a freelance journalist and is now a widow following the author's death on Tuesday.

I may be the only person on earth who didn't watch the "Breaking Bad" finale, if my Facebook feed is to be believed.

The "Monsanto Protection Act" is set to expire at the end of this month after an amendment was approved to remove it from a Senate spending bill.

Nigeria’s space ambitions are expensive but necessary (according to the government) despite the country's unimaginable poverty.

The always-funny Tracy Morgan of "30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live" fame crashed a comedy show Tuesday night in New York, where he delivered some hilarious new material.

State Rep. Bill O'Brien, a Republican, fired back at Obama hours after he criticized his comparison of Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act.

The massacre in Nairobi illuminates the necessity of the security state that has gripped Abuja, Nigeria, in response to terror attacks there.

With “GTA 5” frenzy sweeping the U.S., some people who can’t get their hands on a copy of the ultrapopular “Grand Theft Auto V” video game have turned to real-life crime.

A French mother who sent her 3-year-old son named Jihad to school wearing a shirt that said, “I am a bomb,” has reportedly been sentenced to a one-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay a €2,000 fine after being convicted of “glorifying a crime.”

Who exactly is Brian Holloway, the ex-NFL star whose New York home was trashed by teenagers who documented the destruction on Twitter?

Visiting Lagos as a New Yorker was a revelatory experience defined by stunning displays of wealth and poverty, among other things.

Here's everything you need to know about open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchange, which begins Oct. 1.

Meet former Florida A&M University football player Jonathan Ferrell, the 24-year-old who was shot dead Saturday by a police officer in Charlotte, N.C.

The booming Nigerian start-up Jumia has established itself as one of Africa's leading online retail portals in just 1.5 years.

In signing a socially inclusive Olympic Truce, Russia appears to be backing off anti-gay discrimination at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

At least 25 people were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Saturday that included the bombing of a funeral service.

The good life has gone a little sour for Kanye West now that he faces a year in jail on charges arising from a July scuffle with a paparazzo.

The pending launch of a Shanghai free-trade zone aimed at testing Chinese economic reforms has analysts cautiously buzzing.

Gay life in Nigeria is evolving, even as the country considers a measure to make homosexuality a crime punishable by 14 years in prison.

A day after Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's stunning win in the New York City Democratic primary, people are asking how he was able to pull it off.

Read the full text of journalist Michael Hastings' autopsy report, which was released Tuesday by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office.

Journalist Michael Hastings' cause of death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles Coroner's office, which said the reporter had drugs in his system when he died.