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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In This Episode Fire up the grill-it's 4th of July weekend! From a massive scrap metal eagle to Mike Drummond's miniature Statue of Liberty carved into a t...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Harry Houdini A child immigrant from Hungary, the man who would become known as Harry Houdini got his start in the entertainment world in 1891 traveling wi...

JERUSALEM - As Syrian government forces press on with a furious offensive against rebel-held areas in the country’s south, Israel is quietly acknowledging that President Bashar Assad’s for...

UKHIYA, Bangladesh - Tucked away in the shadows of her family’s bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world. She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her h...

AMESBURY, England - In this normally pleasant town of 10,000 residents a stone’s throw from the mysterious Stonehenge monument, the new reality is sinking in: Novichok, again. Four months had pa...

MAE SAI, Thailand - With more rain coming, Thai rescuers are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave before they can extract 12 boys and their soccer coach with minimum risk, officials said Thurs...

TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to arrive in Pyongyang on Friday for his first visit since last month’s summit in Singapore, and one of his biggest tasks will be to dispel gro...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrats and Republicans once largely agreed that the upcoming midterm elections would hinge on the economy, health care and President Donald Trump’s popularity. Not anymore....

BEIJING - Chinese telecoms giant ZTE Corp.’s brush with death after Washington barred it from buying U.S. components was a stark reminder that China’s industries still depend on American t...

NEW YORK - A protest against U.S. immigration policy forced the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, with a group unfurling a banner from the pedestal and a woman holding police ...