The long awaited report the US Senate compiled on the interrogation practices of the Central Intelligence Agency has been made public, revealing horrendous criminal conduct and abuse that cannot be described as anything but torture.
Chris Hadfield, retired 55-year-old astronaut who was the very first Canadian to walk in space, said that the next giant leap for humanity should be back on the moon, not on Mars.
The presidents of France and Russia held an unexpected and unplanned meeting in Russia to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine, where a ceasefire is scheduled to take effect Dec. 9.
A Swiss man who was held captive by Islamist radicals in the Philippines has escaped from captivity after two years of being a hostage.
A civilian engineer employed by the U.S. Navy is alleged to have tried to steal the blueprints for the newest and largest generation of the U.S. aircraft carriers, the Gerald R. Ford class.
Luke Somers, a U.S. journalist who has been held captive by militants in Yemen since Sept. 2013, was killed in a raid as U.S. Special Forces attempted to rescue Somers and other hostages.
Zhou Yongkang, the former head of China's domestic security apparatus and one of the country's most powerful actors, has been arrested on charges of corruption, seemingly bringing to a climax a purge of Communist Party officials by President Xi Jinping.
Rolling Stone Magazine has apologized to its readers after it was revealed that a bombshell expose the magazine published about a horrifying rape at the University of Virginia may not be true.
Fast food workers across the United States walked off their jobs to strike and demonstrate for an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The Justice Department has discovered that the Cleveland Police Department routinely used unreasonable or excessive force, necessitating the creation of an independent monitor to enact reforms throughout the department.
The city of Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, witnessed its worse violence in years as radical jihadists laid siege to the city and battled with police.
A New York City grand jury has refused to indict a police officer who was captured on camera using excessive force that resulted in the death of Eric Garner, spurring protests across the United States.
The government of Iran has been carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq, illustrating that the group is such a threat rivals such as the United States and Iran both seek its demise.
Leaders instrumental to the occupation of streets in Hong Kong by pro-democracy protesters have turned themselves into the authorities, further weakening a movement that has begun to wane after more than two months of direct action.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has announced that it will no longer field a football team due to the ever increasing costs of remaining competitive with college football's dominant institutions.
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