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Al-Shabab took credit for the Nairobi mall attack, but Kenyan officials and other observers say they had outside help

The Justice Department's internal watchdog says the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mounted dozens of undercover investigations into illicit cigarette sales without proper approval.

12 people, including an army officer, were killed

KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush has served as an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends in Maine.     

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- "No more Hiroshimas!" ''No more Fukushimas!" Those slogans are chanted together at rallies by Japanese who want both an end to nuclear power in the island nation and an end to nuclear weapons aro...

Assad doesn't rule out US attack, says he has given Russia evidence of rebel chemical weapons     

Federal prosecutors are recommending that a former head of the Boston FBI office serve no prison time and pay a $15,000 fine in exchange for pleading guilty to an ethics violation.     

The group responsible for the Kenya mall attack has recruited dozens of Somalis in the city in recent years. Residents say a lack of acceptance in mainstream America allows young men to fall through the cracks

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials: Triple bombing at market in village near Baghdad kills 14.     

Spacecraft carrying American, 2 Russians docks with International Space Station     

The Randolph County school board in North Carolina has rescinded its ban on Ralph Ellison's highly revered Invisible Man following a little over a week of intense criticism from free speech and literary advocates.  ...

Turkey says Israel hasn't met all conditions for normalizing ties after 2010 ship attack     

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Two Cambodian men wrongly convicted for the 2004 murder of a prominent opposition activist walked free on Thursday, one day after the country's Supreme Court ordered their release.     

Sandra Bullock is one of the highest-profile actresses in Hollywood and also one of the world's most photographed moms. It's hard to pick up a tabloid that doesn't feature a photo of the Oscar-winner with her adopted 3-y...

BEIJING (AP) -- A Beijing court has convicted the teenage son of two celebrity military singers of rape and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.     

WASHINGTON -- Ruth Patrick, whose studies of freshwater ecology in the 1930s helped galvanize the later environmental movement and whose success in a profession dominated by men charted a course for other female scientis...

Harvard scholar Ben Urwand thinks so. His claims in his new book The Collaboration have outraged New Yorker film critic David Denby, among others.      

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut man charged with killing his wife in 1984 went on trial Thursday, three years after her skeletal remains were found under a barn floor on their former property in Newtown.     

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapons, but the text will not threaten the use of force, officials said.   ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Navy on Thursday ordered an in-depth investigation into the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the events that led up to it, including a detailed look at the shooter, his mental health background an...

Today in showbiz news: Steve Carell plays sinister, more Boardwalk Empire is on its way, and Michael B. Jordan has big things ahead.     

Senator Bob Corker fought with Ted Cruz on the Senate on Thursday afternoon — at one point Corker called him "confused" — giving us an in-person confrontation to cap off months of increasingly angry criticism of...