Slain Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov knew criticizing the Kremlin was dangerous, but thought his fame would protect him. The 55-year-old was walking home from dinner with his girlfriend Anna…
Social Security is most Americans’ largest retirement asset, but the system is “maddeningly complex, and if you don’t figure it out, you can lose big bucks,” says one of the…
BUENOS AIRES — Tens of thousands of Argentines flowed into the center of this city on Wednesday for a demonstration in honor of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death…
Family members of the three young Muslims shot to death in North Carolina on Tuesday are grappling with the senseless tragedy. During a powerful speech at a vigil on Wednesday…
Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. Read the whole…
Making a portrait from thousands of tea bags would find most artists steeped in frustration. Not Red Hong Yi. – H/T Digg
The U.S. government has quietly created a second-class federal prison system specifically for immigrants. For years the Department of Homeland Security has been known as the agency that houses immigrant…
READ: Obama says terror fight is not a religious war “These investments will increase infrastructure funding by over a third, support hundreds of thousands of American jobs and lay the…
Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched through Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in the first major rally since mass protests last year. – Police had raised no objection to the march, though…
Five centuries after burning thousands of Jews at the stake, forcing them to convert to Christianity or expelling them, Portugal is granting citizenship rights to their descendants as part of…
Every week, tens of thousands of cats and dogs are euthanized in U.S. shelters. That’s millions of healthy, adoptable animals that are put down each year. The Lucy Pet Foundation…
BERLIN — The protest group that shook up German politics and spawned large rallies around the country for and against immigration announced on Wednesday that several of its leaders had…
During the cold walk to the subway, your nose starts running and you casually dab it with your gloved hand. On the train, you hold onto a railing, touched by…
Since the 1990s, home builder Peter Cohen has spent tens of thousands of dollars transforming his Goleta, Calif., house into a kitty paradise for his many rescue cats. The result?…
As Ebola raged through West Africa last summer, an experimental drug was tried for the first time on two American aid workers in Liberia who were gravely ill with the…
However, he also defended police officers saying, “I also worked with thousands of honorable women and men wearing a uniformThe people I grew up with my entire career.” – RELATED:…
The horrific twin attacks in Paris last week have sent shockwaves throughout Europe. Political leaders from across the EU joined millions of French mourners on Sunday, and Europeans-at-large continue to…
Tens of thousands were killed, and hundreds of thousands displaced, in a three-decade conflict between the state and separatist insurgents in the north, known as the Tamil Tigers. Peace is…
“The joy and the happiness it brings to little kids and adults is fantastic,” Lynch said. After 18 years of decorating, the retired New York City firefighter has no plans…
Abdel Mouin told CNN by phone from Tripoli that the family was notified by his lawyer in the United States that al Libi, whose real name was Nazih al-Ruqaii, died…