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Americans bowed their heads in silence this morning to mark the anniversary of 9/11, but the Islamist militants who follow al Qaeda’s violent ideology continue to celebrate what the 2001 attacks’ mastermind once declared was the “Holy Tuesday” operation. In Pakistan, a Taliban group today…

A key component of the Obama administration’s strategy to “degrade and destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria is the training and arming of moderate Syrian rebel fighters.  But the biggest hurdle might be how the United States would vet those  fighters to make sure they…

If you haven’t heard of Juno Temple yet, you soon will. The up-and-coming British actress starred opposite Angelina Jolie in the summer blockbuster “Maleficent” and has a role beside Johnny Depp in the upcoming Whitey Bulger flick, “Black Mass.” Part of a crop of hot…

I’m not a doctor, nutritionist or trainer. I’m an ordinary woman who lost a lot of weight, more than 60 pounds in a year — and kept it off — after trying and failing at every diet under the sun. I’d fail because I always…

Even if you have the cash to spend, do you really need to pay big bucks for makeup to look great? To find out, ABC News’ “20/20″ tested out products from a drugstore and from a department store on two identical twin sisters. Former cosmetic…

Morning Money Memo… There’s good news about the cost of energy: It’s getting cheaper. The cost of oil has been falling for weeks on global markets. West Texas crude is now just under $91 a barrel. The International Energy Agency has again cut its oil…

If you think sharks are terrors in the water, wait until you hear about the Spinosaurus. Fossils from Morocco have provided the most complete skeleton of the aquatic dinosaur, which roamed the waterways during the Cretaceous period, according to research published in the journal Science. The…