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BRUSSELS (AP) -- European lawmakers are trying to tighten rules governing the multi-billion dollar tobacco market by imposing bigger and bolder warnings on cigarette packs, banning most flavorings like menthol and beefin...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Doctors prepared to drill into President Cristina Fernandez's skull Tuesday morning to siphon out blood that is pressuring her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head injur...

TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese court has ordered a group of anti-Korean activists to pay a Korean school in Kyoto 12 million yen ($120,000) in compensation for disturbing classes and scaring students by shouting "kimchi stinks...

NAIROBI -- American interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan Al Qaeda operative linked to the bombings of US embassies in Africa, as new details emerged Monday about...

US president calls on Congress to pass legislation that would end shutdown that has stalled government services.

A peaceful march turns into fiery chaos as demonstrators torch a bus, break into buildings and set cashpoints alight.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, repeatedly requested a lawyer when he was being questioned at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center following his arrest in Watertown, according to court documents fi...

Powerful Typhoon Fitow has killed at least five people in China, with four others missing, Chinese media report.

The UN chief highlights the looming threats to experts as they try to destroy Syria's poison gas stockpile during a civil war.

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President Obama's top technology adviser said the failure occurred in the part of the Web site that lets people create user accounts at the beginning of the insurance sign-up process.     

The NSA's huge Utah data center is supposed to help U.S. intelligence collect billions of bytes of intelligence when it opens this fall.     

WASHINGTON -- The conservatives who have helped propel the first federal shutdown in 17 years have argued that they are fighting for smaller and less bloated government. But a vote over the weekend to grant back-pay to f...

A few faint glimmers of hope surfaced on Monday in the U.S. fiscal standoff, both in Congress and at the White House. An influential GOP senator was floating a plan to cut federal spending and reform the U.S. tax code as...

After signing into law numerous measures praised by immigrants' rights groups, Gov. Jerry Brown denied noncitizens what he called a "responsibility of citizenship."     

The first Senate vote on raising the debt ceiling could come as early as Friday, but there have been no bipartisan meetings on ending the partial government shutdown.     

Today was the 12th anniversary of the U.S. invasion  Afghanistan. Very few people noticed.     

SANDOWN, N.H. (AP) -- Officials at a New Hampshire elementary school are hoping for colder weather, so students can go outside.     

Archie Comics veers into horror with 'Afterlife' and new territory for publisher's famed teens     

The head of Bolivia's coca control agency is arrested over accusations of illegally selling seized coca, document fraud and extortion.

The news from Nasa's highly productive solar observatory