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The first shutdown in nearly two decades follows jockeying over funding the Affordable Care Act.

South Korea is staging what officials describe as the largest military parade in a decade, as its president warns of a "very grave" threat from North Korea.

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Obama signs legislation ensuring military will get paid during any government shutdown     

US reacts with alarm to news that Turkey chose Chinese company, slapped with US sanctions, to build air defense system.

The head of the US Marine Corps orders two generals to retire over their failure to defend Camp Bastion in Afghanistan from a Taliban attack in 2012.

In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Syrian FM denied the violence in his country was a civil war.

A return to the site of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster

Venezuela expels top US diplomat, 2 others, alleging they plotted to sabotage economy     

New book suggests yes

In a speech at the U.N., Israel's prime minister maintained a hawkish stance against his country's most determined enemy

Here's how a government closure will affect travel.

NYC Opera online fundraising campaign fails; bankruptcy filing expected this week     

The shocking story of nine defectors who tried to flee North Korea, only to be sent back.

A massive explosion that followed a power outage on the UC Berkeley campus Monday night resulted in several possible injuries and forced a campuswide evacuation.

Launching off a 300-meter-high tower platform with only seconds to pull your rip cord might sound like the act of an insane person.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- U.N. officials say an "exhaustive study" will be undertaken to determine whether a Dominican Republic court decision to strip citizenship from children of Haitian migrants violat...

Lawyers said oil giant understated the amount of oil leaking from its Macondo well during 2010 catastrophe.

FAA furloughing thousands of airline safety inspectors, union officials complain     

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- A pilot walked away after crash-landing his small airplane on the Seward-Meridian Parkway in Alaska.     

DALLAS — Sen. Ted Cruz is pledging to donate his salary to charity during any federal government shutdown. Cruz announced his pledge in a statement Monday evening. On Friday, Cruz had told an Austin conference that he ...

Amanda Knox's third murder trial began in an Italian courtroom today with a written appeal from the sister of Meredith Kercher, Knox's former roommate who was slain in 2007, saying that Kercher "deserves at least the dig...