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A second suicide bombing occurred at a restaurant in the city's Rabweh district. The attacks, on the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, are the latest to target the country's capital.

The alternative minimum tax was passed to target the ultrawealthy, but today it is more likely to affect the upper middle class.

President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. It's such a big number that it's hard to wrap your head around it. We try to figure out what that actually buys.

After someone heard a bang in Berlin, police found a home-made cannon that shoots coconuts with compressed air. A man said he built it for an art project to be used in Antarctica and was testing it.

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life is as much a doorstopper as any young adult fantasy novel, but the world it builds is inside the head of teenaged Sal, who's struggling with difficult new emotions.

An executive assistant suffered minor burns after a letter exploded at the International Monetary Fund's office in Paris on Thursday.

State agriculture officials are banning poultry sales in Alabama over concerns about avian influenza.The Cullman Times reports Alabama Agriculture…

Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.

The tardigrade, a strange animal smaller than a grain of sand and with hooks for feet, can survive in a dried-up state for a decade. Its secret might help improve how drugs are shipped and stored.

The White House's proposed federal budget cuts everything from research to regulation, and makes clear that the administration doesn't view climate change as a priority.