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Authorities Saturday were investigating reports of an active shooter at a shopping mall in Columbia, Maryland.

Judge gives Texas hospital until Monday to remove brain-dead pregnant woman's life support     

Chinese state media say six people have died in explosions and another six were shot dead by police in fresh violence in the far west region of Xinjiang, home to the restive ethnic minority Uighurs.     

Afghan President Hamid Karzai again says he will not sign a US security deal until peace process is under way with Taliban

Bombing in Egyptian capital damages 1 of the world's rarest collection of Islamic artifacts     

With a successful acting career and numerous accolades under her belt, what's next for Goldie Hawn? "There's so much left. You know if you lose wonder, you've lost everything," she told HuffPost Live from Davos on Saturd...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation plans to use a $2.25 million grant to help with a new substance abuse screening program for young adults.     

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- A police officers executing a search warrant at a New Bedford apartment has been shot and wounded after someone opened fire from inside the barricaded home.     

Now that Republicans have moved their convention forward by up to two months -- somewhere from the last week of June to the second week of July 2016 -- outside political groups will be able to air attack ads in late summ...

Russia hires hundreds of former horsemen, known as the henchmen of the tsars, as guards for the Olympic Winter Games.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's intended presence as chief guest of honor at India's Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Sunday symbolizes the significance India places on an ever-closer relationship with Japan in t...

Amid an effort to compete with Costco, Amazon

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Only 16 of 125 members of an Arizona State University fraternity chapter attended a distasteful party in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day that had racist stereotypes and offensive costumes...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych offers what appear to be concessions to the opposition as anti-government protests spread across the country.

Violence involving army-backed government's supporters and opponents signifies deep divisions, three years after revolt.

In the span of eight hours, a man moved into a Naperville townhouse, became sexually intimate with his new roommate, and then strangled the roommate, a DuPage County prosecutor said Saturday at a bond hearing.     

Li Na beats Cibulkova to win Australian Open title in her 3rd appearance in the final     

Arizona authorities searching for 14 who fled from vehicle after I-40 rollover near Flagstaff     

Jordan's planned smoking ban and hookah crackdown lights a fire under country of smokers     

Scientists in Norwich have developed a genetically modified purple tomato, which is being produced in Canada due to European hostility to GM foods.

The BBC's Duncan Crawford reports on protests in the centre of Kiev, next to piles of tyres that were later set alight by protesters.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- It's pond hockey season in New Hampshire, with the fourth annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey tournament in Concord continuing through this weekend and the New England Pond Hockey Classic slated for n...