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Raymond "Jerry" Roberts - the last surviving codebreaker to work on high-level Nazi communications at the World War Two listening post Bletchley Park - dies aged 93.

Jeffrey Ferguson's death marks state's 5th execution in 5 months.

Li Wufeng, a high-level minister in China, reportedly fell from the sixth floor of his office building and was killed by the fall, Caixin, a local news site, first reported Wednesday before taking the story down from its...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he's more concerned about the prospect of a nuclear weapon exploding in New York City than Russia's recent actions and called President Vladimir Putin's country ...

Yolanda Cerrillo, granted immunity by prosecutors, tearfully told jurors that she helped Michel Escoto in scheme to get $1 million in life insurance.

Deliberations by jury in al-Qaida spokesman's trial set to resume for a second day

A desperate Oscar Pistorius will take the stand when his defense lawyers present their case in his premeditated murder trial in the fatal shooting of his pretty blond girlfriend, Reeva...

Three agents of the U.S. Secret Service, who were present in the Netherlands ahead of President Barack Obama's arrival there, were sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary issues, Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman ...

How Washington state, victims are getting help after deadly mudslide

HOUSTON -- A large apartment complex under construction in Houston has been consumed by fire, sending thick, black smoke billowing into the sky and drawing hundreds of emergency personnel. Much...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations is marking a day of solidarity with the dozens of staffers around the world who remain in detention or in the hands of their abductors.     

Today, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund announced 10 photographers who have been awarded grants to focus on budding crises and underreported issues around the globe, from gang violence in Venezuela to the legacy of s...

A New Jersey saleswoman slapped her boss with a federal lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting her in his chauffeured car and threatening her job if she reported him, according...

Obama, dismissive of Russian influence and power, still rallies opposition to its aggression

Launch of three Rodong missiles takes place as leaders of US, South Korea and Japan discuss how to deal with regime

City Of Boston Trying To Collect 27-Year-Old Excise Tax Bill     

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is gathering in Yokohama, Japan, to explore the array of impacts climate change is having on the natural world. For one of Earth's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, th...

Days after a top NATO commander warned of Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's eastern border, Russian troops staged military exercises in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria, which borders Ukraine on the southw...

In a stunning ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation's first union of college athletes.

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Poll: Ukraine crisis sinks Obama's already-low approval rating, but sanctions draw support

The loner who inherited a hoard of art stolen under the Nazis