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Turkey, a member of NATO, shot down a Russian fighter plane on Tuesday, creating a new diplomatic crisis over the civil war in Syria.
Mali once again reeled Friday under a terrorist attack, the latest violence in a country that has been racked by war for more than half a century.
Adrianne Haslet-Davis, the professional dancer who lost her leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, sent out an urgent tweet Thursday that attracted a lot of quick attention.
Speculation that one of the suicide bombers involved in the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe as a political refugee has touched off a firestorm in the United States and focused attention on how the State Department chooses and screens refugees.
In a case of apparent jitters over a possible terrorist attack, four passengers were taken off a Spirit Airlines flight in Maryland after another passenger reported suspicious activity, but the group was later released without charges, officials said Tuesday.
Perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but when it comes to names on an official map and today’s sensitivities on race and gender, Shakespeare would have come up against a society that sees words in a new light.
Assailants turned Paris into a deadly combat zone Friday night, launching a series of explosions and shootings at popular nightspots that resulted in the deaths of more than 120 people and led to a bold counter-attack by security forces at a concert hall to free scores of hostages.
Tim Wolfe, the embattled president of the University of Missouri System, resigned Monday after months of turmoil with faculty, students and his economically powerful football team in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions.
The children of same-sex parents will be banned from blessings and baptism until they turn 18 and disavow gay marriage under a new Mormon Church policy that deems homosexual parents to be apostates, or people who have renounced their faith.
The largest branch of Judaism in the United States passed a far-reaching resolution supporting transgender rights Thursday, the latest step in a year that has seen the issue move from the shadows into the limelight.
