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Elderly Miami imam Hafiz Khan could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for four terrorism convictions based on his financial support for a U.S. enemy, the Pakistani Taliban.

Computer Bug Halts NASDAQ Trades for 3 Hours

FORT HOOD, Texas

Scott Rasmussen no longer works for the right-leaning polling company that he founded and will move into becoming a Republican pundit in a new venture.

An Israeli-Palestinian peace deal might mean sharing the sacred city

A 23-year-old photojournalist has been gang-raped by five men in the Indian city of Mumbai, police say, in another case sparking outrage.

NY sanctuaries take in animals escaping urban slaughterhouses; survivors see beautiful reward

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Police in Spokane, Wash., say they have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the Battle of Okinawa.

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is acknowledging he must "do a better job" of giving Americans confidence in the programs the National Security Agency has deployed to guard against terrorism.

Russia backs UN probe of alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, urges Assad to cooperate

A U.S. man kidnapped in Syria describes falsely confessing to being a CIA agent to stop his al Qaeda captors torturing him. He escaped but had to leave another American behind.

Children make up half of the refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries after two years of civil war in Syria, the UN says.

North and South Korea begin talks on resuming the reunions of families separated by the Korean War, after a three-year stop.

Airstrike hits target south of capital Beirut in retaliation to four rockets earlier fired from Lebanon towards Israel.

Georgia school employee is heard on 911 tapes calming down standoff suspect

One of the Oklahoma teenagers charged in the murder of Australian baseball player Chris Lane tweeted "time to start taken life's," three days before police said the athlete was gunned down by the teens because they were ...

Amid outcry over euthanized dog, leadership changes at Nevada city's animal services agency

Tens of thousands of ethnic Kurds have streamed into northern Iraq in recent days, where they have got a warm welcome and a measure of hope.

Robert Bales, the US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers last year, is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Thousands demonstrate in Bahrain against government during permitted protest in Gulf kingdom

TRIPOLI, Lebanon

Bolivia police chief says at least 10 inmates killed 50 hurt in prison melee