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If the Boston explosions are the work of terrorists, it would represent the first such attack on American soil since 2001.

Media outlets around the world scrambled to gather information following the bomb explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday.

President Barack Obama said "people shouldn't jump to conclusions" about the Boston Marathon explosions during his first public remarks Monday.

New York City police officials have beefed up security at strategic locations in the city.

Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly personally calling senators to support the background checks compromise.

Last year, about 37,500 people ran in the London race.

Saddam's former foreign minister and deputy premier says the dictator was "mentally ill" when he invaded Kuwait.

Alleged murderer Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius is accused of getting drunk and inappropriately flirting with women at a bar.

The suspect shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend before shooting a police officer in the ensuing chase.

The governor recently released a controversial statement about a rural high school's students that resulted in effort to end the town's two segregated proms.

The employees were reportedly removed based merely on physical appearance.

Taxpayer ombuds(wo)man outlines the biggest problems facing tax policy today, and where tax cheats tend to lurk.

Two old buddies sharing stories: Fidel Castro and Diego Maradona, who dropped in after paying his respects to Venezuela's Maduro.

In the United States, at least at the highest level of politics, being short appears to be a distinct disadvantage.

The Gulf kingdom is cracking down on protesters just days before the F1 motor race is scheduled.

Audrie Pott committed suicide after photos of her allegedly being sexually assaulted were posted online.

Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, whose career in Congress was launched in 2006 by a successful write-in campaign, died on Sunday.

Such “contract marriages” for the purposes of sex are illegal under Indian law and forbidden by Islam.

Kids from China's Hunan province have to climb unsecured ladders to cross mountainous terrain to get to schools miles away.

A court in India convicted Mirza Himayat Baig, the only person arrested in connection with a bomb blast at German Bakery restaurant in February 2010.

Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez’s preferred successor, narrowly won the presidential election.

North Korea rejected an offer from South Korea to hold talks on the future of the joint Kaesong industrial complex.

"It will be fun to see Obama forced to sign [the [Manchin-Toomey legislation]," says the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

A recent Bloomberg.com headline claimed bitcoin mining is a "environmental disaster," but the relevant figures do not appear to add up.

The NRA doesn't support the background-checks compromise, but the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms does.

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas had been considered strong suspects in the murders of the Texas prosecutors.

Prisoners were being moved into single cells in a bid to break their hunger strike when they fought back.

The senator from Florida contended the measure would prod illegal immigrants to go home and seek entry to the U.S. legally.

Sgt. Ron King claims the Trayvon Martin lookalike targets were a teaching aid.