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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

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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

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.

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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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

US appeals court upholds ruling ordering Argentina to pay bond debt from 2001 default

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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York police have been given two layers of oversight in two weeks that are intended to balance the force's culture of aggressive crime prevention tactics with the civil liberties of the New Yorkers th...

DETROIT (AP) -- U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints of ceiling fires in some Jeep Grand Cherokees.

Democratic National Committee members meeting in Arizona call for San Diego mayor to resign