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Traders on Wall Street were full of doom and gloom this holiday season. Shoppers on Main Street, meanwhile, were busy buying stuff. Retailers delivered their biggest holiday sales increases in six years, as shoppers shru...

Australians are suffering a brutal post-Christmas heatwave, with temperatures in most parts of the country's southeast up to 14 degrees Celsius (24 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the average for this time of year.

The endurance athlete took 54 days to walk 1,500km across the frozen continent, dragging a 170-kg sled An American has become the first person to traverse Antarctica alone without any assistance, trekking across the pola...

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will keep open through early 2019 a tent city in Texas that now holds more than 2,000 migrant teenagers, and also will increase the number of beds at another temporary detention...

Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA) criticized President Trump's remarks during his visit with US troops in Iraq for Christmas.

President says missile system, which will enter service next year, to ensure Russia's security for decades to come.

While speaking to service members at al-Asad airbase in Iraq on Wednesday, President Trump spread two falsehoods about military pay. He asked the crowd if anyone there was "willing to give up the big pay raise you just g...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- Authorities say two men were surrounded by customers with guns while attempting to steal tools from a Washington store. The Daily Herald reports the men, ages 22 and 23, allegedly took four nail guns...

Will Leitch, contributing editor at New York magazine, national correspondent for MLB.com, film critic for Grierson & Leitch, host of Sports Illustrated's "The Will Leitch Show" and founder of Deadspin, is doing his year...

A popular former Israeli military chief jumped into the political fray Thursday, announcing he would run for office in the upcoming election and instantly injected perhaps the strongest challenge to …

A judge in Nevada was arrested by Las Vegas police on a domestic violence charge after an incident involving her 18-year-old son, an attorney for the judge's estranged husband told police. Clark County District Judge Ste...

It seems Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's resume needs a fact checker. Whitaker, who took over for ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November, seems to have exaggerated his accomplishments as a Universit...

Williams is accused of lying to investigators and filing a false insurance claim related to a break-in he reported in May at his campaign office.        

Saudi Arabia's King Salman issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts on Thursday, including naming a new foreign minister, following international fallout from the killing of Saudi writer Jamal …

Opposition candidates call the delay a ploy to hurt their chances at the polls

Madagascar's electoral commission has announced provisional results in the runoff presidential election, saying Andry Rajoelina received more than 55 percent of the vote while Marc Ravalomanana received more than 44 …

German authorities say customs officials in the Hamburg area have destroyed nine tons of drugs with an estimated total street value of about 520 million euros ($592 million). The Hamburg …

Clashes in Tunisia have continued between protesters and police for a second night as anger grew over the death of a journalist who set himself on fire.

Federal data released this week shows that 41,000 people have applied for Public Service Loan Forgiveness –but as of Sept. 30, only 206 had received it.        

If the bill is passed, Thailand would become the first country in Asia to recognise same-sex civil partnerships Thailand's military government has backed a bill that would make the country the first in Asia to recognise ...

The United Arab Emirates will reopen its embassy in Damascus seven years after withdrawing its diplomatic representation from Syria, the Emirati government said Thursday.

It was the first elephant birth at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in almost 10 years.