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Following two controversial decisions by grand juries in New York and in Missouri, New York's top judge is calling for an overhaul of the system.

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman called the grand jury system a "relic of another time," and said that the way it has worked so ...

Just as he prepares to return after a one-season suspension, Major League Baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez is saying he is sorry.

"I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season," Rodriguez says in a handwritten letter. "I regret that my actions made the ...

Just four hours after they started, talks between Greece and the European Union collapsed. The two sides were trying to hammer out an agreement that would allow Greece to continue receiving bailout help from its Eurozone partners.

But both sides walked out of the talks and reiterated their hard lines: ...

Putting in place a sophisticated digital racket, hackers were able to steal millions of dollars from up to 100 banks in what the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is calling "the most successful criminal cyber campaign we have ever seen."

Kaspersky, which helped uncover a piece of malicious software ...

A new winter storm is working its way across the country's midsection and is forecast to bring rain, ice and snow to a wide swath of the Mid-Atlantic before potentially bringing another round of snow to New England.

For the the country's midsection, Accuweather reports that this may be ...

Retaliating for the mass killing of 21 of its Christian citizens, Egypt launched airstrikes against the self-declared Islamic State in Libya.

Al Arabiya reports:

" 'Your armed forces on Monday carried out focused air strikes in Libya against Daesh camps, places of gathering and training, and weapons depots,' ...

Apple hasn't been the subject of flashy rumors in a while. The Wall Street Journal remedied that with a story today that says the maker of the iPhone is currently working on producing an electric car to challenge Telsa for the market.

The Journal's story is based on unnamed Apple ...

Gary Owens, the voice-over star known as the announcer on Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In, died on Thursday at his home in the Los Angeles area.

NPR member station KPCC reports that Owens parlayed his role on Laugh-In into a long career of voice-over work. KPCC adds:

"Owens hosted ...

It's just won't stop for our poor neighbors in the northeast.

Boston, for example, has already seen the snowiest February on record after a parade of three storms dumped more than three feet of snow. Well that record is about to be crushed: The National Weather Service is predicting another ...

Consumed by an influence-peddling scandal, John Kitzhaber, Oregon's only four-term governor, has resigned.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Kitzhaber made the announcement in a statement. The station reports:

"'I apologize to all those people who gave of their faith, time, energy and resources to elect me to a ...

An Argentine prosecutor has formally accused the country's president in a cover up involving one of Argentina's worst terrorist attack.

Opening another dramatic chapter in what's already an international tale of intrigue and possibly murder, prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita said President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Foreign Minister Héctor Marcos Timmerman ...

Buzzfeed had a super serious interview with President Obama.

But, Buzzfeed being Buzzfeed, also got the most powerful man in the world to take a picture using a selfie stick.

Obama did it because he wanted young people to know that it's open enrollment time for Obamacare.

Here's ...

The U.S. military has decided that it will provide Chelsea Manning with hormone therapy while she is a prisoner at the Army's Fort Leavenworth prison.

If you remember, Manning, the army private who was convicted in the biggest leak of classified information in American history, announced that she ...

If you want to know just how surreal Oregon politics have gotten in the past few months, consider this statement released by Secretary of State Kate Brown today:

"Late Tuesday afternoon, I received a call from the Governor while I was in Washington, D.C. at a Secretaries of State ...

A battle between Alabama and the federal judiciary just turned another page, when a federal judge on Thursday ordered a state official to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Reuters reports:

"U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade's order sought to clarify that Mobile County Probate Court Judge Don Davis ...

Ashton Carter will be the country's 25th secretary of defense, after the Senate confirmed his nomination Thursday with an overwhelming vote of 93 to 5.

As we've reported, Carter, 60, had served as the No. 2 defense official under Leon Panetta and he was tapped by President Obama after ...

After a 17-year back story that involved politics and agency peacemaking, the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, has now begun a million-mile journey that will take it to a place where the gravitational forces between the sun and Earth are balanced.

Riding a SpaceX Falcon rocket, DSCOVR took off ...

Sudanese army forces raped some 221 women and girls during a 36 hour period in Darfur last October, a new report from Human Rights Watch found.

"The deliberate attack on Tabit and the mass rape of the town's women and girls is a new low in the catalog of ...

Flanked by his vice president and the secretaries of state and defense, President Obama said he was asking Congress for authorization to launch a war against the so-called Islamic State.

Obama made clear that the draft authorization sent to the legislators does not signal a new ground war for the ...

Most of the American military personnel who were sent to help with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will be back home by April 30, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

"Over the past several months, the Department of Defense delivered critical life-saving resources, constructed Ebola Treatment Units, trained hundreds of ...