Newly declassified U.S. intelligence documents revealed Thursday that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the 1976 assassination of one of his country's diplomats in Washington. … [Read more...]

The U.S. will change the failed Syrian rebel training program to focus efforts on working with capable Kurdish and other forces in Syria, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. No details were immediately available, but the $500 million program to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group is widely considered a failure. … [Read more...]

The family of the man who was shot five times in the back by a cop now charged with his murder has reached a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement with North Charleston, S.C. It started out as a routine, discretionary traffic stop. … [Read more...]

There still is some positive news to report in the world. Tennessee honeymooners experienced two acts of kindness in one day when their car broke down and strangers paid for their repairs. Whitney and Sean Moore of Columbia were on their honeymoon in Gulf Shores, Alabama, after their Sept. 25 wedding when their car broke down. … [Read more...]

The man in charge of protecting the German state of Bavaria's wooded areas, Forestry Minister Helmut Brunner, accidentally started a forest fire over the weekend, according to Germany's The Local. … [Read more...]

For the third time in recorded history, a massive coral bleaching event is unfolding throughout the world’s oceans, stretching from Hawaii to the Indian Ocean. A group of ocean scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), XL Catlin Seaview Survey, the University of Queensland, and Reef Check, confirmed this bleaching event is being brought on by a … [Read more...]

When the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services release their updated dietary guidelines this year, one highly-publicized section will be missing. The dietary guidelines, a government document that provides details on what makes up a healthy diet and lifestyle, won’t include discussions of how sustainability relates to diet. In a blog post Tuesday, … [Read more...]

The potential consequences of climate change are pretty well known: rising sea levels, global food insecurity, more frequent and extreme wildfires, stronger storms. But what you might not know is that climate change could also threaten your holiday slice of pumpkin pie. … [Read more...]