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"When was the last time you heard from Arwa or Brice?" I asked.

Europe's rapidly expanding -- and increasingly frightening -- radical right is looking to unspool a similar game plan to the one Donald Trump used to ride to power in the US. The moderate, but rapidly shrinking, center on both sides of the Atlantic had better watch out.

After years of declining use of the death penalty across the United States and declining public support for capital punishment, last week's election gave hope to death penalty proponents. The results of balloting in California, Oklahoma and Nebraska as well as the election of Donald Trump seem to foretell a comeback of capital punishment.

Just last week, five more states voted to legalize recreational marijuana, but users may want to be cautious. A study released Sunday suggests that marijuana use can weaken heart muscles, particularly in young men. The study was presented at the annual scientific conference of the American Heart Association in New Orleans.

US Customs and Border Protection is sending 150 extra agents to the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as authorities report a surge in the number of undocumented children and families trying to cross into the United States from Mexico, the agency said Saturday.

Computer programmer and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012 as he tries to dodge an international arrest warrant.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's South Island on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), the USGS said. No tsunami warning has been issued.

The Trump administration scored its first legislative victory months before taking office when congressional leaders said they would not now be taking up ratification of a massive trade deal at the center of President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy.

One of China's first female fighter pilots and a member of the country's Air Force Aerobatics Team was killed in a training accident over the weekend, according to Chinese state-run media.

If you look up at the moon in the next day or two, you might notice it looks bigger and brighter than usual.

Former Breitbart spokesperson Kurt Bardella calls Trump's rhetoric on the free press "one of the most dangerous things happening right now."

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro discusses the hundreds of hate crimes that have taken place nationally since President-elect Donald Trump's victory.

Former NBA star turned activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is denouncing what he called "voter suppression" tactics he says influenced the results of last Tuesday's presidential election.

Eight thousand people angry about President-elect Donald Trump's policies on immigration, the environment, LGBT rights and other issues marched in the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, the fourth day of anti-Trump demonstrations.

Australia will transfer hundreds of refugees currently held in offshore detention centers to the United States in a landmark deal announced Sunday.

The first 7.8-magnitude killed at least two people and triggered a tsunami.

Do you feel your head as a sandwich—as layers of bone, skin and hair? Probably not. The brain integrates ourselves into a functioning, unconscious whole. We feel the cladding only when something goes wrong, something as simple and universal as an infestation of lice. Then the contours of the head become very apparent and our goal—eradication and oblivion—becomes imperative.

A rare blue diamond has hit the auction market and could fetch $25 million.