Show a picture of Blackbeard to someone unfamiliar with One Piece and tell them it’s the concept art for ... a buttoned-up vest, a scarf, and a big fat cigar to complete the mafia boss look.

The rising West Coast rapper was stabbed to death backstage at hip-hop festival Once Upon a Time in L.A. Witnessing and writing about the slaying, journalist Jeff Weiss reckons with complex feelings ...

Donald Trump is no Marlon Brando when it comes to delivering a memorable line but his dismissal last week of Volodymyr Zelensky with “You’re not acting at all thankful” before chucking him out of the ...

A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York ...

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 71-year-old former mafia boss on a motorway near Grenoble in south-eastern France. Jean-Pierre Maldera, described by French media as a "godfather ...

A cryptocurrency promoter is set to helm the nation’s commodities regulator. An online-payment entrepreneur has been nominated to lead its space program. An electric-car, aerospace, and social ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

South Africa’s growing crisis with mafia-style extortion rackets has hit a new target, with criminals locking down public taps and toilets in informal settlements, demanding payment for their use.

Segovia goes into lockdown when a new gold war begins as Colombia’s broader conflict enters a new chapter. But is this an ...

Larry Snelling. The West Beverly community had breakfast together to raise critical funds for Chicago Police Memorial Foundation's Get Behind the Vest campaign, which purchases bulletproof vests ...