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Between 2015 and 2019, researchers discovered 31 new carbon minerals, most of them vividly colorful. Edscottite is one of the least flashy new finds,…

A young, bright star has been acting a little erratic lately. The star, Betelgeuse, is suddenly dimming. It may be a sign, astronomers say, that the…

At least two people were injured Thursday and several buried in snow when an avalanche hit a ski resort in the Swiss Alps. The avalanche started at…

A South Carolina church kicked off Christmas week by learning that a suspected arsonist set its executive building on fire, but that didn’t…

For weeks, your Christmas tree has sat twinkling quietly in a corner of your home, carefully decorated with the dazzling bits and baubles you so…

Christmas might be over, but Kwanzaa is just getting started. Thursday marked the start of Kwanzaa, also spelled Kwanza (with one ‘a’ at…

As he prepared to host his family for Christmas, Michael Rosenbrock loaded up his shopping cart with all the holiday feast fixings: Ham, stuffing,…

The Minneapolis community has made so many donations for the more than 200 people displaced on Christmas by a four-alarm fire that officials had to…

Ari Behn, an author and the former husband of a Norwegian princess, died by suicide on Christmas Day, Behn’s family’s spokesman Geir…

Two female plane passengers allege in a federal lawsuit they were sexually assaulted in separate incidents in 2018 on Frontier Airlines flights and…

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has said one of his employees was “kidnapped” from his Moscow apartment and sent to a remote…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken off the stage at a campaign event in southern Israel Wednesday night as a rocket was fired from Gaza…

The father of a Texas baby who disappeared with her now-deceased mother has been reunited with his child, according to a photo posted Tuesday morning…

Lindsey Vonn has an engagement ring and now her fiancé, NHL star P.K. Subban, has one too. The greatest female ski racer of all time posted a…

The suspect in the stabbing death of two men, including the younger brother of San Francisco 49ers player C.J. Beathard, has been arrested northwest…

More than 200 people were evacuated from a low-income residential hotel after a fire broke out early Christmas morning and quickly grew to four…

A man from Miami has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime after he allegedly punched and kicked a 65-year-old man in midtown…

Dallas Cowboys tackle La’el Collins, 26, was able to make a Christmas dream come true when he surprised his mother, Loyetta Collins, with the…

A Philadelphia woman was stabbed to death in front of six children who lived with her in the early hours of Christmas Day, police said. The…

Mother Nature was bringing some warm Christmas cheer to much of the country, though a few cities encountered thick morning fog and a storm system…