(Reuters) – Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Minneapolis arrested two professional football players on trespassing and other charges, authorities and local media reported Sunday. The arrests of Miami Dolphins defensive end Derrick...

Racist death threats emailed out to a substantial number of Harvard students and graduates were the work of  “my little brother” claims the owner of the originating email account, reports The Boston Globe. On Friday, hundreds of...

As part of a promotional campaign for the upcoming Theodore Melfi film, St. Vincent, the producers have released a brief clip of Bill Murray, who plays a scruffy war veteran neighbor, singing along with Bob Dylan on Shelter From The Storm. St....

This story first appeared at Climate Central. The RV Kaharoa motored out of Wellington, New Zealand on Saturday, loaded with more than 100 scientific instruments, each eventually destined for a watery grave. Crewmembers will spend the next two...

There’s something in the water for moms-to-be to be afraid of because it’s causing stillbirths and other pregnancy complications. Researchers from the Boston University Medical Center found a dangerous chemical in drinking water, and published...

HONG KONG — A week after students started occupying public spaces in three points in Hong Kong, some protest groups agreed Sunday to give up some of their ground, but hundreds of rank-and-file occupiers refused to comply. Protest leaders hoped...

IRBIL, Iraq — A former French intelligence officer who defected to al-Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. airstrikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and identity. Two...

Victims of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s brutal regime vowed Sunday to pursue posthumous prosecution for crimes against humanity — but most of the country seemed unmoved by the former dictator’s sudden death....

A British millionaire goes on trial Monday accused of masterminding the murder of his wife during their honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago. Businessman Shrien Dewani’s case is finally up for judgement after he lost a three-year...

Incumbent Dilma Rousseff will face Social Democrat Aecio Neves in a run-off vote on October 26 after they topped an Ibope Institute exit poll following Brazil’s presidential election Sunday. The exit poll showed Rousseff taking 44 percent...

A hospital technician has died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Kampala, the Ugandan government announced on Sunday. The man, aged 30, died in the Mengo hospital where he worked in the capital of the east African country on September 28, 11...

Attendees at Saturday night’s performance of the St. Louis Symphony were treated to an addition to the evening’s scheduled  program when a flash mob of protestors serenaded the audience with a civil rights song dedicated to slain...

Miles O’Brien, the science correspondent for PBS Newshour, lamented on Sunday that he was embarrassed at some of the coverage of Ebola on Fox News that had a “racial component,” and seemed intended to scare viewers. On the...

A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the woman blew...

The former general counsel and executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party is coming under fire for the novel solutions to the Ebola epidemic he is posting on Twitter. The vehemently pro-life Todd Kincannon began by arguing that...