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Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

Willy Herteller didn't miss a Mass for 25 years and became a fixture at the Vatican, earning the respect of Catholic leaders there.

The former White House press secretary was rumored to take over Apple's lobbying arm before he joined Amazon's shop.

The New Jersey governor and potential U.S. presidential candidate isn't bothered by all the negative campaign coverage.

New York authorities promise to get tougher on banks and be kinder to whistleblowers.

Scientists long thought that the tendency of the virus to lay dormant for a decade or longer was merely an error.

A quarter of the countries surveyed still report high levels of religious hate crimes despite declining levels of hostility.

One more step toward a lasting ceasefire, but not all weapons are silent in eastern Ukraine.

Republicans railed against the executive order, which aims to improve labor standards at federal contractors.

The FCC just approved unprecedented new open-Internet rules that would reclassify broadband as a public utility.

CAGE, a group founded by a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, says U.K. intelligence turned a "beautiful" man into Jihadi John.

China's government ban on U.S. tech companies is part of a long-running plan to wean off foreign tech services.

Republicans want to see the deal the New York governor got from Murdoch's News Corp. after he backed initiatives helping the company.

The fact that Loretta Lynch's attorney general nomination won bipartisan support argues for her approval by the full Senate, a civil rights group said.

House Speaker Boehner appeared tired of questions about a Homeland Security shutdown. So he blew some kisses.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will not face a criminal investigation for allegedly covering up Iran's role in a 1994 bombing in Argentina.

A Department of Homeland Security shutdown means 1,800 firefighters will lose their pay and response times will skyrocket.

NATO members are being asked to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense. That is a pipe dream for most member nations.

Mexico's government denounced the police shooting of an unarmed Mexican immigrant in Texas, the second incident of its kind this month.

Buhari is widely viewed as an anti-corruption leader, despite allegations of human-rights abuses during his regime.

The Nobel Prize winner accused of sexual harassment had his arrest protection, which was due to expire on Thursday, extended until the end of March.

Mouhannad Droubi is seen beating a Syrian soldier in a video, which Swedish authorities found after he was granted asylum.

"Mommy, why did they erase the little girl's face?" reads an advertisement in a new awareness campaign in an Israeli city.

Beyonce does standing oblique crunches, sit-ups with a medicine ball, punches with weights, lunges and jump squats.

“Make this the year you discover a new destination,” the video says before revealing images of the extensive destruction in the territory.

His family said he eventually told them he was helping Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Police departments around the nation have embraced Spanish-language learning for officers.

Russia is again leveraging its gas monopoly in Ukraine to pressure the government in Kiev.

“Despite our diversity, despite our differences, we are a country, we exist and we deserve respect," a protest leader said.