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Relief around world as US lawmakers reach agreement to avoid default, reopen government     

MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A prosecutor in Missouri who's faced intense criticism over his handling of a case involving a 14-year-old girl who says she was raped by a 17-year-old acquaintance says he wants a special prosecut...

The Newark mayor is headed to Washington

Yosemite National Park reopening immediately after Congress bill to end government shutdown     

A local Chinese official was fired after a photo of him receiving a piggyback ride while in a flooded town went viral.

Adly Mansour, Egypt's interim president, is reviewing a proposed protest law approved by the Cabinet that has drawn the ire of human rights groups and political factions.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hoping to survive an earthquake, many Californians and people in earthquake prone regions around the world were gearing up for a major earthquake drill.     

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Technology to track the endangered animal expected to boost police's ability to prosecute poachers or traffickers.

BANGKOK (AP) -- A plane from Laos' state-run airline crashed in bad weather into the Mekong River in the Southeast Asian nation, apparently killing 49 people from 11 countries, the government said.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Agency has been extensively involved in the U.S. government's targeted killing program, collaborating closely with the CIA in the use of drone strikes against terrorists abroad, T...

Mexican authorities reach wreckage of plane that went down with 14 aboard; no survivors     

Wayland Bicycle Accident Caught On Camera     

Raw video: California man's close encounter with ocean predator

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- The "Black Peter" tradition in the Netherlands is under fire from opponents who believe the figure is a racist caricature and who asked Amsterdam officials Thursday to revoke the permit for a popular ch...

The despised Chengguan, or Urban Management police, are trying to improve their image with a new courtesy campaign in the southern city of Guangzhou

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A long-awaited deal to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctica appears to have survived a last-second obstacle -- the U.S. government shutdown -- and could be approved ne...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Black-clad police toting submachine guns entered the slum of narrow streets lined with wooden shacks and crumbling concrete buildings in Jamaica's capital. As usual, they were looking for fugiti...

TOKYO (AP) -- Rescue workers were combing through piles of debris from mudslides that buried people and destroyed dozens of homes on a Japanese island, as officials acknowledged Thursday that an evacuation could have sav...

Armed Robbery At Rockland Dunkin' Donuts     

Two papers revisit the work of a Columbia researcher who conducted invasive surgery on skid row residents in vain hopes of curing cancer.     

BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts Senate has approved a $94 million spending bill that includes additional funds to help low-income families pay their winter heating bills and provide shelter for homeless families in hote...