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For the local sheriff's department, the death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson is a closed book: A tragedy, but an accident.

A suburban Chicago woman is charged with murder in the death of her 6-month-old granddaughter.

Starbucks Makes Big Bet To Sell Food With Coffee

How nine months of horror ended for a 14-year-old kidnap victim.

Pyongyang warns the U.S. of 'horrible disaster'

An education company co-founded by Goldman Sachs is at the centre of a corruption probe that has ensnared the head of a leading Chinese state-owned corporation.

Brazilian-US relations have also been ruined by the recent leak, with Rousseff postponing a state visit to Washington in response to the US spying on her communications with top aides. Rousseff has demanded a full public...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is planning to suspend a substantial portion of U.S. military aid to Egypt, several administration officials said Tuesday, after summer's deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft will swing by Earth for one last visit before speeding to the outer solar system.     

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, administration officials said Tuesday night, ending an unusually public search to fill one of the most import...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Just how to define a glacier is at the heart of a Chilean congressional battle that could determine the future of mining in the world's largest copper-producing country.     

SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says he would support a minimum wage above $15 an hour.     

6th arrest made after NY motorcyclists accused of beating SUV driver; detective among arrested     

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP) -- The driver of a monster truck that careened into a crowd of spectators, killing nine, was charged with manslaughter Tuesday.     

Advocates for Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic that afflicted the country three years ago are suing the United Nations, saying its peacekeepers introduced the disease through sewage contamination.     

Police have given the all-clear after gunshots were reported at a historic building on Princeton University's campus Tuesday night. 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Congress to give him special decree-making powers that he says he needs to fight corruption and economic sabotage.     

Michigan charity taking donations for low-income residents gets mastodon tooth in donation box     

In the past when the CIA targeted a troublesome government, a key part of the strategy was to make the economy "scream" to get the people ready for regime change. This tactic now appears to have come home to roost in the...

A New York City police officer was arraigned Wednesday on gang assault and other charges in connection with last month's alleged beating of an SUV driver by a group a motorcyclists.

A Broward Sheriff’s deputy found a burlap bag with cocaine worth $700,000 while out on manatee protection duty Wednesday morning.

Buried underground about 30 miles from El Salvador's capital city, police made a staggering find this week: 213 grenades.