The Confederate battle flag has been lowered from a pole on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol, ending more than 50 years of the banner flying at the property.
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Pope Francis on Thursday urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a “new colonialism” by agencies that impose austerity programs.
Buckle up, baby. Volvo Cars debuted a new concept for their luxury, family-friendly vehicles — a swivel child seat built into a console that sits where the front passenger seat would normally be.
More than half a million people downloaded an Android game that stole their Facebook usernames and passwords, according to researchers.
The mystery of three Wisconsin sisters who went missing during a Wyoming camping trip has a happy ending.
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are trading barbs on Twitter after Bush said in an interview Wednesday that “people need to work longer hours.”
Nearly two weeks after the remains of a young girl were found along the rocky shoreline of Boston Harbor, more than 45 million people have seen or shared a computer-generated image of what she may have looked like in life. But authorities are no closer to identifying her.
A Georgia appeals court heard arguments on Thursday but did not issue an immediate ruling in a Ku Klux Klan chapter’s lawsuit against the state for refusing the white supremacist group’s application to “adopt” a stretch of highway.
Tony Moreno, whose 7-month-old son died after Moreno allegedly threw him off a Connecticut bridge, has been charged with murder, prosecutors said Wednesday.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed a bill that will authorize the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse grounds.
U.S. authorities thwarted plots to kill people in the United States around the July 4 holiday, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday.
Shahidullah Shahid, a former Taliban spokesman who pledged allegiance to ISIS, has been killed in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, that nation’s intelligence agency reported Thursday.
A 12-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the shooting death of an Omaha, Nebraska, man in what officials said on Wednesday appeared to be a trend of gangs using children to help carry out crimes.
A NASA satellite has detected the first sign of a black hole 8,000 light years away from Earth.
The South Carolina legislature passed a bill early Thursday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds after an emotional 13-hour debate over the controversial banner.
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