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In October 2014, several officers responded to a call of a man with a knife. Compounding things is that McDonald is black while Jason Van Dyke, the officer who shot and killed McDonald is white. It has also been alleged that the department attempted to cover up the killing, even...

Apple has released sweeping updates across its operating systems, bringing further improvements to its software and devices. For starters users who speak Arabic will be pleased to learn that Siri will finally be able to understand them.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut its official cash rate for the fourth time this year, reducing it a quarter percentage point to 2.5 per cent, saying the economy needed a boost and inflation was low.

“By making precise adjustments to the quantity of reserves in the system, the Fed was able to exercise very tight control over the federal-funds rate and was able to keep that market perfectly balanced so that the quantity of reserves in the system was exactly the same as...

Researchers said Monday they believe global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels declined in 2015.

The Recording Academy announced nominations for the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards, reflecting a diverse blend of talented music makers.

Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson revealed that he had ‘cancer’ removed from his face!

Although many other cities in China and elsewhere in the world typically see levels of smog even worse than Wednesday’s pollution in Beijing, the Chinese capital’s latest bout has triggered its first red alert under a two-year-old system of alerts and restrictions to...

On the upside, self-driving cars share more than a few components with smartphones, so it makes sense that Samsung’s know-how would transfer across.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicted “a great day” as he revealed the first planeload of Syrian refugees would arrive at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Thursday evening.

Cameron’s office said for its part that the prime minister would “consider President Putin’s request to send British experts to assist the investigation”.

U.S. Supreme Court justices dissected and debated the University of Texas at Austin’s unusual admissions procedures on Wednesday, questioning whether Texas’ flagship campus should keep using race as a factor when evaluating some of its applicants. It reviewed the case...

A call for an International Tribunal of Climate Justice to punish rich countries that fail to live up to their commitments was also dropped, as were references to emissions from aviation and shipping.

Terrorism suddenly rivals the economy as the single most important issue to Americans in the 2016 presidential election – and a year out, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds more people paying close attention to the contest than at this point in any race back to 1988.

And the luxury for the Astros is that Giles should be the closer for the foreseeable future since he isn’t eligible for free agency until 2020. Ken Giles of the Philadelphia Phillies appears to be their main target. Earlier in the day Salisbury pondered if the Phillies were...