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Beyoncé's latest song is for the black Southern woman, says National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, who's from Mississippi. It's a message she needed to hear.

When you pull up to the gas pump, low oil prices may make you smile. Low prices are wreaking havoc in oil states. We check in with a big oil field services firm based in Texas to assess the damage.

The Ohio governor's second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary has refocused attention on his presidential bid.

Testifying for the first time since the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, Janet Yellen says volatility in the global markets means that "as is always the case, the economic outlook is uncertain."

The meeting after the senator's New Hampshire primary victory was a not-so-subtle recognition of his pivot to South Carolina and an effort to broaden his appeal to the state's African-American voters.

She plans to run seven marathons on seven days in seven continents. She'll start with an "easy" one: 26.2 miles in Antarctica.

In Pakistan's capital, teenagers in a group called Route 66 get their kicks drag racing illegally on the city's wide avenues. They're worried more about punishment from their parents than from police.

More than 35,000 were wounded during the same period. "The violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering," the report states, pointing to the "scourge" of ISIS.

Mikhail Kasyanov says he was sitting in a Moscow restaurant when about 10 men burst in, threatened to kill him and then attacked with the baked good. The Kremlin is downplaying the attack.

Fabius presided over December's landmark climate agreement and helped to negotiate the nuclear deal with Iran.