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Christmas is just around the corner. This year, instead of jumping into endless political conversations at the dinner table, try throwing some…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new law on Thursday making it illegal to discriminate based on hairstyles associated with race, his office said.…

James Wiseman, a potential No. 1 pick in the next NBA Draft, has left the University of Memphis to prepare for his professional career. Wiseman was…

A man driving a pickup truck crashed through the wall of a Florida airport, rode through baggage claim and ran into a rental car stand early Thursday…

Picture a world made out of cotton candy, and you can add “super-puff” to the list of weird and wonderful exoplanet types. This new type…

Two robbery suspects and 21 law enforcement officers exchanged nearly 200 bullets in this month’s deadly shootout at a busy Florida…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is calling on a Jersey City school board member to resign after she posted a comment on Facebook calling Jewish people…

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has designated former education minister Hassan Diab as the country’s next prime minister, according to a…

The mother of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee said she had waited years for this moment. A pair of reputed gang members convicted in the shocking 2015 revenge…

A Denver radio show has been canceled after one of the hosts wished for “a nice school shooting” to break up the coverage of President…

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Three unvaccinated children with measles likely exposed travelers at Denver and Los Angeles airports to the virus, health officials have warned. The…

Two Wyoming high school students were disciplined Wednesday after coming to school in white robes that officials say were “designed to…

Children at Vienna’s prestigious ballet academy were routinely humiliated and told to smoke in order to stay slim, an investigation has…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual marathon press conference is a major media event in Russia, designed to show the country’s…

When director Rian Johnson visited Ireland’s Skellig Michael, where Luke Skywalker made his self-imposed exile in “The Last Jedi,”…

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was on his way out of office when he dropped a huge batch of pardons and commutations of sentences of hundreds of…

Over the weekend, Ryan Matthews — a loving dad, husband and a “gentle giant,” as his family describes him — graduated…

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China’s ambassador to Australia has defended Beijing against accusations of human rights violations in a rare press conference Thursday, saying…