Gale force winds predicted for parts of Greece, some exceeding 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph), have prompted authorities to halt ferry services and shut down schools on three islands
An anti-torture group says state and local officials in North Carolina should prosecute participants in a CIA program that ferried terrorism suspects to secret sites where they were tortured in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks
San Francisco's $2 billion transit terminal has shut down after a crack was found in a support beam of the facility that opened just last month
Attorneys head to court Thursday to argue over whether the criminal case should go forward against a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home
Attorneys head to court Thursday to argue over whether the criminal case should go forward against a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home
U.S. Secretary of State will travel next month to North Korea to prepare for a second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump meant to jumpstart stalled efforts to rid the North of its nuclear bombs
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's confident President Donald Trump will sign a spending bill that averts a looming government shutdown, even though the bill does not pay for Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
Ryder Cup notes: Spieth says winless season will be a good season with a Ryder Cup victory; Koepka officially wins PGA of America award for best player
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says his administration will accept a truth commission to investigate the case of 43 teachers-college students missing since Sept. 26, 2014
A Chicago police officer has told jurors at the trial of a white officer charged with murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald he once told officers to beware people possibly carrying guns disguised as knives
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University(THE CONVERSATION) Italy is not the only country with an organized crime problem. But movies and TV shows like “Scarface,” “The Godfather” and “Gomorrah” have made the Italian mobs – in both their southern Italian and American incarnations – world-famous. Such pop culture portrayals tend to romanticize a dangerous phenomenon that’s all too real
Trump calls Michael Avenatti a 'third rate lawyer' pushing 'false accusations' against Kavanaugh and himself
Ted Cruz is again talking about chaos in Washington, only this time he's not the one causing it
St. Louis is facing another lawsuit over the police response to protests last year, this time from a city alderwoman
Russia is determined to keep Syria solidly anchored in its sphere of influence over the long term _ both as a foothold in the Middle East and as a warning to the U.S. and its allies against future interference
Brett Kavanaugh denies new allegations of sexual misconduct, says they're from 'Twilight Zone,' and 'never happened'
Second-seeded Hyeon Chung and fourth-seeded Adrian Mannarino both lost at the Chengdu Open
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Atkinson, University of Florida(THE CONVERSATION) There are about 100 trillion cells that make up the human body. A new megascience endeavor will catalog and image each of the 200 or more types of cells from the 80 known organs and identify the genes that are active in these cells. This new effort follows on the heels of the Human Genome Project that engulfed biology during the
Kavanaugh in prepared testimony for Senate hearing denies 'sexual or physical encounter of any kind' with Ford
Attorneys for Deborah Ramirez are engaged in an escalating dispute with Senate Judiciary Committee GOP over how to bring forward her allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself at a party when they were Yale students
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