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On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the rationale and legal framework for the controversial CIA drone program and his plans to wind down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

The Red Sox are in the top 10 of Joe Lemire's Power Rankings. So is their former manager. Terry Francona has the surprising Indians in playoff position as he returns to Beantown.

Luck of the schedule draw can be a huge edge in the SEC. But finding a 'fair' model in a 14-team league is not easy, writes Andy Staples. Can the SEC balance tradition and equality?

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Fan fiction, in which aficionados of existing books and movies write characters into new storylines, has long been popular fodder on Internet forums -- but stories based on copyrighted works are essentially impossible to sell. Amazon wants to change that with its new "Kindle Worlds" program.

It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception.

It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a mystery of the brain that causes people to forget faces.

Jackie MacDougall, executive editor of TheRickilakeshow.com talks about her own decision to have a double mastectomy.

What was Indiana doing? Where was Roy Hibbert? LeBron James' far-too-easy Game 1-winning layup at the buzzer raised many questions. Rob Mahoney breaks down the final play.

Peter Bergen says there's a great deal of misinformation about the counterterrorism policies President Obama will address in a speech Thursday.

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An uneasy calm prevailed Thursday morning in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli where days of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left 16 people dead and wounded more than 156.

A right-wing historian and author killed himself inside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Tuesday in front of horrified tourists, police said.

Rioting has broken out for the past three nights in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, with scores of cars set alight and violent clashes between police and youths.

When former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 80 years in prison this month, it was not expected to be the end of story.

Claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, signaling the job market may be strengthening slightly in May.

In his first television interview, photographer Pierre Borghi describes his kidnapping and escape from a Taliban prison.