A new study reveals that children who sleep in the same room as a portable electronic device get around a half hour less of sleep per night than children without such devices.
Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian blogger and politician, has removed an ankle bracelet meant to enforce his house arrest on trumped up fraud charges.
On Sunday, millionaire hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert Sr. was shot in the head at his Beekman Place residence located on Manhattan's East Side. Officers who arrived at the scene found Gilbert's body in his bedroom along with a handgun lying next to him.
Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor who controversially provided every single piece of evidence to the grand jury in the Michael Brown case, including information he knew to be untrue, has been sued by a juror, while a number of St. Louis residents formally filed a complaint to the Missouri Bar.
Tragedy in Austrian Alps left 2 young members of the U.S. ski team dead on Monday.
A Florida man is in custody after he cut off his mother's head because he claims she would not stop nagging him.
The historic Cologne Cathedral, a German landmark on par with the Brandenburg Gate, has announced that it will go dark in response to a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment throughout Germany.
In a lawsuit, Prince Andrew, the fifth in line to be the King of England, has been named as one of many well connected individuals in the realms of business and politics who participated in a sexual slavery ring run by Jeffrey Epstein.
Israeli settlers have attacked a group of US diplomats who were touring Israeli settlements in the West Bank that are illegal according to international law.
President Barack Obama has given the Department of the Treasury the authority to impose new sanctions on the government and economy of North Korea for its role in a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Indian authorities are currently hunting down two of their own, police officers accused of raping a 14-year-old girl.
The government of the Gambia was able to prevent a coup by members of the armed forces who sought to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh.
After failing to secure the necessary support for a United Nations resolution to establish an independent Palestinian state, Palestine has joined the International Criminal Court with the goal of having Israelis arrested and tried for war crimes, despite the fact that a number of Palestinians may soon also find themselves in the court's crosshairs.
As prices of oil continue to drop, the Obama Administration threw a bone to domestic oil producers by allowing the export of lightly refined oil collected in the United States, reversing a ban on oil exports in place since the 1970s.
After years of organizing and demonstrating by labor advocates that led to successful ballot measures increasing the minimum wage, 20 states will see their minimum wages increase in 2015.
