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No one is projecting World War III. Yet, to quote Dickens, this is far from "the best of times."

In an Oval Office interview for POLITICO's Off Message podcast, the president offers his most expansive comments yet on the race to succeed him in the White House.

The “butterflies of the ocean” are beautiful, deadly, and strange.

A giant Hebrew version of the Coca-Cola sign signals the entry to this city, a center of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel.

It looks like the schematic for a new theme park ride: plummet from a lofty height through a series of stomach-churning twists.

Locked in a tight battle to win next week’s opening nominating contest of the 2016 election, the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, will seek whatever edge they can in front of voters Monday at a town hall in Des Moines.

At a packed hearing at City Hall more than a year ago, South Los Angeles residents argued that oil drilling had caused foul smells, thunderous noise and other nuisances in their neighborhood west of USC.

Kelly Reichardt and James Schamus are stalwarts of the independent world, and both debuted excellent films Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. And though Schamus is, in his own words, "at the tender age of 57 a first-time director" and Reichardt is a veteran who has been behind the camera for...

In a drumbeat that gets more insistent every week, viewers in early primary states have been subjected to a ceaseless cycle of ads for presidential candidates, courtesy of the big checks donors pour into super PACs and "dark money" groups.

Mark Lindquist needed just 66 seconds. That was all it took to persuade a judge to sentence William Grisso to prison for the next 31 years.

Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was stumping for Hillary Clinton in southeastern Iowa on Sunday when a union leader extended a hand and a question in Spanish.

Elaine Harmon was one of about 1,000 female pilots who served stateside during World War II to free up male pilots for combat. After the war, she fought to persuade Congress to recognize the women's service and grant them veteran status and benefits. Harmon died last year at 95. Her ashes are sitting...

I'm Christina Bellantoni, rested and ready to go as your Essential Politics host after a little vacation. Subscribe to the newsletter I'm back stateside after eight days in South Australia, and it turns out Donald Trump is the hottest political story in the Land Down Under, too. Just about every...

An 82-year-old former scout camp leader has been accused of sex offences involving three children dating back several decades.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his father and seriously injuring his brother in an alleged knife attack is due to begin today.

A man's body has been found in a village playing field after officers were spotted searching the area.

Failure of implantation is the main limiting step in IVF success. Now, a new study finds the genetic pattern of the uterus may predict whether this step will succeed or not.

The gut needs to balance resistance to dangerous microorganisms with tolerance to avoid damage to tissue. Now, a study of mice shows gut neurons play a role in this balancing act.

With markets in turmoil, WSJ's Jerry Seib examines how voter sentiment about Wall Street and the broader economy will play in the presidential election. Photo: AP

Out of 18 stocks that hit new 52-week lows on Thursday and Friday, 14 were financial companies.

The Revenant storms to the top of the US box office in a weekend affected by the East Coast snow storm.

Three wickets before lunch brought England back into the game with South Africa enjoying a 254-run lead.

What Arthur Eisenkraft -- a distinguished professor of science education and director of the Center of Science and Math in Context (COSMIC) at the University of Massachusetts -- displayed in Bengaluru was the art of science teaching.