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NEW YORK - Two-time defending champion Serena Williams rode her big serve to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Kaia Kanepi of Estonia to advance to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open on Monday.

Missile reportedly launched towards Sea of Japan amid high military tension between North and South Korea.

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WASHINGTON -- The current Congress is on track to be the worst ever at passing laws since modern record-keeping began, with three of its lawmakers failing to introduce a single...

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From Scarlett Johansson to Jennifer Lawrence, the victims of hack attacks are almost never men--part of a bigger problem with sexist internet culture

Israel blasted a Syrian drone out of the sky as it flew over the Golan Heights on Sunday. Military officials in Jerusalem are unsure whether the unmanned aircraft was aimed...

Man stabs students, teachers at central China school, killing 2 before jumping to his death

A New Mexico shooting range is coming under fire for allowing children to practice shooting semi-automatic weapons.

Arab satire tries to puncture mystique of Islamic State group as it marches across Syria, Iraq

September is expected to be hard month for Atlantic City, as three of its casinos deal out their last hands

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said a 16-year-old girl was allegedly planning to travel to Syria join Islamist militants, NBC News reported Sunday. Before the teen was able to board a flight to go to Turkey S...

Social upheaval in Pakistan turns deadly after at least one woman is killed in clashes between protesters and police. Opponents of Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are demanding the premier step down and say they w...

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Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun wearing body cameras after weeks of unrest over the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white officer and sharply differing accounts of the incident, officials s...

Official describes as counterproductive Israeli announcement to appropriate 400 hectares of West Bank land.

But those two campaigns offer clues on how it should be done

Robots still lack a critical element that will keep them from eclipsing most human capabilities anytime soon: a well-developed sense of touch.

Eric Burkett, who is a master archer, leaves for London next week to compete in the Invictus games - an international Olympiad of Wounded Warrior games conceived by Prince Harry.

The British couple arrested in Spain after pulling their cancer-stricken son out of a Southampton Hospital told a judge they will not return to the UK voluntarily, according to a Madrid court where they appeared on Monda...

Three Americans detained in North Korea spoke out about their conditions and asked for U.S. help in interviews with CNN.

ABC hopes that David Muir's blend of youth, approachability and off-the-cuff tweets will attract young viewers to "World News Tonight."