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Bandleader Trevor Powers brings his smart, beguiling bedroom pop to the World Cafe studios.

The move allows legally married same-sex couples to apply for Veterans Affairs benefits like health care and disability payments.

Ariel Castro, the man convicted of kidnapping and abusing three women and holding them prisoner in his Cleveland home, hanged himself in his cell on Tuesday night.

A Syracuse University political science expert says the maneuvering by Onondaga County Republicans to keep a ballot line open in November without naming a…

The campaign of the embattled New York City mayoral candidate continues to be rife with drama. This time, a war of words broke out at a Brooklyn bakery.

Congress is trying to fashion language that would restrict U.S. involvement in Syria from escalating. But lawmakers often find it uncomfortable to rein in the commander in chief once U.S. forces have been committed.

Syrian President Bashar Assad's Instagram account includes images of his smiling first lady. It makes no mention of the country's civil war. Instead, it show his wife helping out in a soup kitchen, and congratulating top achieving students.

Also: Lemony Snicket on poetry and playground slides; tiny secret paintings on the sides of books; Lorin Stein on John Hollander.

The man who tortured three young women for about a decade inside his Cleveland home apparently took his own life Tuesday in an Ohio prison. As Americans wake up to that news, many are expressing their outrage over his crimes and the way he reportedly chose to leave this world.

Incoming students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst were greeted this week with 15,000 pounds of fresh fruit. It was the world's largest fruit salad — setting a Guinness record. It was served from a small swimming pool with shovels.