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Pictures from a camera mounted on the front of a derailed freight train show that the train went off the tracks after it struck a garbage truck that crossed the tracks while the train's horn was blasting warnings.

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada is banning nearly all exports to and imports from Iran.

Squash, baseball/softball and wrestling remain on the shortlist for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games.

Stacy Keibler got social media sites swirling this week after a photo of her flashing her pink G-string hit the web. George Clooney's other-half suffered the embarrassing wardrobe malfunction while at the Monaco Grand Pr...

Apple's Irish operation has a multi-billion dollar profit - and a tiny tax bill. How does it do it? Eileen Stokes and her family live a basic life, one of 16 Irish Traveller families settled on an established halting sit...

Facing a mounting investigation into her presidential campaign's alleged campaign finance improprieties, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Wednesday morning that she won't seek reelection in 2014. Here's a quick ...

Police were evacuating people Tuesday evening at Disneyland's Toontown after a report of an explosion that appeared to have involved dry ice, authorities said.

According to The New York Times, two letters testing positive for ricin were apparently sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control group he founded late last week. At least one police officer investigating the let...

ILOPANGO, El Salvador (AP) -- Young men come around once a week to collect $20 from store owner Carlos Tevez, the "tax" he pays to continue operating his business and to keep his family safe.

PHOENIX (AP) -- A mother from Arizona accused of trying to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. had a court hearing Wednesday where her lawyer pushed for her release from a Mexico prison on the grounds that she was set up.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Democratic legislative leaders on Wednesday called for a delay in tax cuts that were enacted last session, saying it's needed to balance a $6.3 billion, two-year budget without shifting tax increas...

Somebody tell this dog he can't possibly eat every piece of hail. Uploaded by YouTube user Doug Burg on May 29, this video shows "Nemo the Lab playing in the hail storm." The video was taken south of Denver, Colo. in Cas...

What is it about Psy? The K-Pop sensation and ambassador of all things Gangnam Style is approaching 400 million YouTube views with his latest thrust-worthy hit, Gentleman, while adding serious won to his bank account wit...

GENEVA (AP) -- Switzerland said Wednesday it will allow its banks to skirt the country's strict client secrecy laws in order to end a long-running dispute with the United States over tax evasion by American clients with ...

Well, I'm technically top-0.21%, but I have a Stack Overflow unicorn shirt, so can I squeak by with that?

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's health department has approved a permit for the state's second medical marijuana dispensary.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A raven-sized creature that lived about 150 million years ago is back on its perch, a new study says.

Anonymous letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the director of the organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in Washington, D.C., contained material that initially tested positive for ricin, accordin...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian court has ordered the release before trial for four people jailed since January for their alleged roles in a nightclub fire that killed 242 people.

Newcastle beat Bedford in the Championship play-off final second leg to secure promotion to the Premiership.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A state police spokesman says "it could be as long as September" before a report on the investigation into the Newtown school shooting is finished.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings, part of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett, agreed on Wednesday to buy Nevada's largest electric utility, NV Energy, for about $5.6 billion.