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Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, 74, spent 2½ years in a federal jail without being convicted.

Telling stat: Citigroup analysts estimated that existing platinum supply rose 95 percent over the past six years.

Both sides of the conflict in the world's youngest country report ongoing clashes.

The president knows sweeping legislation will likely fail. But he signaled he's ready to use executive orders to get things done.

Teaching manuals will claim disputed islands as Japanese territory while highlighting the government’s stance on the issue.

Brazilians love soccer -- but protests against the 2014 World Cup turned violent in Sao Paulo.

The Florida state Supreme Court is sending a constitutional amendment for medical marijuana to the ballot box in November.

Social investor Harrington Investments Inc. has asked that Monsanto report on risks stemming from its GMO business.

Rep. Mark Takano has called for more oversight of rental-backed securities, a new financial innovation introduced by Blackstone late in 2013.

By cuddling and kissing babies in the hospital, Trierweiler made her first public appearance in several weeks since the sex scandal erupted in Paris.

Cornelius Gurlitt, through his lawyer, said he would consider restitution claims as officials investigate his $1.3 billion collection to see if any of it is Nazi-looted art.

Last month, China earned another ignominious pollution stat, and the government is now taking a stronger stance to correct the problem.

And other nuggets from the U.S. Secretary of State’s New Orleans visit to the auto dealers expo.

Nebraska has nation's highest rate of black homicide victimization, according VPC.

The first-term Florida Republican, who was convicted of cocaine possession, will resign his post on Monday.

China's 2012 drilling in the South China Sea, with its first deep-water oil drilling rig, triggered tensions with the Philippines and Vietnam.

Will funding for the food stamp program, which serves 47 million Americans, be cut by a proposed $9 billion as part of the bill’s provisions?

While delegates at the Syria talks in Switzerland reached a minor agreement, Homs continued to witness fighting and shelling.

The bill is named after Avonte Oquendo, 14, who ran away in October and was recently found dead.

The former NSA contractor on German TV made startling new claims about the scope of NSA spying.

The Egyptian Health Ministry said on Saturday that 29 people have been killed in Cairo protests held on the third anniversary of the Arab Spring.

The family of a recently executed Ohio man filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state for what they say was a “cruel and unusual punishment” that should not be allowed to continue.

In exploring Laura Jane Grace’s struggle with gender dysphoria, Against Me! has created their most radical album, and their best in at least a decade.

Previously forced to stay on life support because of a Texas law prohibiting the withdrawal of treatment from a pregnant patient.

Since her release from the hospital, Trierweiler has refused to discuss the scandal with French media.

Following his much-mocked comments about women’s libidos, former Gov. Mike Huckabee made a plea for donations to his political action committee, Huck PAC. It worked.

The blasphemy laws in Pakistan are believed to be the strictest in the Muslim world.

"Revenge Porn King" Hunter Moore and his associate Charles Evens face up to seven years in federal prison if convicted.

Let's just say some Republican candidates would benefit from a course in basic anatomy or human sexuality.