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Peter Bergen: Terrorists have turned to a frightening weapon that often is within easy reach and is particularly hard to guard against: Using cars and trucks as killing machines

The Chinese government has returned the US unmanned underwater drone it seized last week in the South China Sea, according to Chinese and US officials.

2016 will be remembered as the year that Donald Trump, a reality TV star and real estate mogul with zero political experience, was elected president. But it will also be remembered as a year of heightened, vicious online harassment.

British tourist Emma Rushton was sitting with friends, soaking up a quintessential German Christmas market scene.

In 2014, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a series of laws to create a series of new state agencies. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory deemed the move to be a power grab launched by his own party. So he did the only thing he could think of to protect his office: Sue the legislature.

A man suspected of injuring three people in a shooting at an Islamic center in the Swiss city of Zurich was found dead near the site of the attack, police said Tuesday.

The apparent violent truck assault on Berlin's crowded Breitscheidplatz Christmas market had all the hallmarks of Islamic State terrorism -- the same type of semitruck, the same high speed of 40 miles an hour, the same mass of holiday revelers -- as the horrific attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice last summer. In both cases, there were multiple deaths and scores of maimed and injured left in their wake.

On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired into an open-top car traveling through the streets of Sarajevo, carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungarian Empire.

President Barack Obama on Monday granted clemency to 231 individuals, the largest single day act of his presidency and totaling 1,324 total while in office.

By 2020, investments for over $3 billion will see the wind power sector grow in Ethiopia by more than 1,000 percent.

Airport hotels are better known for being convenient and practical than they are for luxury.

Put in place by President Obama six years ago, DACA has helped hundreds of thousands of young people come out from the shadows and get valid driver's licenses, enroll in college and legally secure jobs.

The weekend shopping trip wasn't supposed to end like this. One minute, the grandmother of 3-year-old Acen King steered them toward the JC Penney in Little Rock, Arkansas. The next, the boy was fatally shot in the seat of her maroon Dodge Charger.

In the desert in Northern Cape, South Africa lies Orania, an Afrikaner-only community. Founded in 1991 by the son-in-law of H.F. Verewoerd, the architect of apartheid, it's legal, constitutional -- and growing. So what future lies ahead for this parochial enclave?

Two thin tubes that connect the ovaries to the uterus have assumed an outsize role in the battle against ovarian cancer.

Teams searching for missing aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have very likely been looking in the wrong place, a new Australian government report confirmed.

Smartly-dressed in a dark suit and tie, he blended in with all the other guests at the modern art center in the Turkish capital -- an upscale neighborhood of luxury hotels and embassies.

Michelle Obama talks with Oprah about her life as first lady, and what the future holds for her and President Barack Obama.

Researchers have observed humpback whales defending smaller sea animals from killer whale attacks.

Three people were shot and injured in an "ongoing situation" near an Islamic center in Zurich, Switzerland, according to police.