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Pope Francis, who succeeded a resigning pontiff just two years ago, told a Mexican television network that he expects his pontificate will be brief.

WASHINGTON -- A knife-carrying Army veteran who scaled a White House fence and dashed into the executive mansion before being caught took a plea deal Friday. Omar Gonzalez, 43, pleaded...

Proposed project, unveiled at investors’ conference in Sharm el-Sheikh , expected to cost at least $45bn.

"We need to expose just how murderous and psychopathic these individuals are"

Scientists cheered by birth of 6 endangered Pinzon tortoises in wild on Galapagos island

No criminal charges for Oregon father whose baby died after he left her in car

Woman breaches San Francisco airport security, gets on runway with plans to stow away on jet

State of emergency declared as warm temperatures and strong winds fan flames spreading towards the Pacific.

A woman who says Bill Cosby victimized her decades ago asked Nevada lawmakers on Friday to support a bill removing the state's statute of limitations on sexual assault -- a provision that prevented her from pursuing a cr...

The families of eight victims killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 have filed lawsuits against the estate of Nancy Lanza, alleging that she carelessly allowed her son access to the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle th...

Des Bishop, who left Flushing, Queens, for Ireland and then Beijing, is back in his hometown with language skills, a one-man show and a hope to build a comedy scene.

Mexican gov't may pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages to army-slayings victims

UN prepares response units saying it "fears the worst" after Category 5 storm hits the small Pacific island nation.

Rosie Swale Pope pounds the pavement with purpose. Each step is a labor of love for this 68-year-old from Wales. She's on a journey to run across the U.S. to honor her late husband and others who have lost their lives to...

What could have caused 3 deaths in Kansas

The term "medical marijuana" is a misnomer. While it's been handed out to more than a million "patients" in 23 states, marijuana bears no resemblance to anything else in their medicine cabinet. Its use is not well regula...

A bird nicknamed the "terror owl" was caught Friday after it attacked over 50 people in a Dutch town. The European eagle owl had been attacking residents of Purmurend, about 12 miles north of Amsterdam, for the past year...

Mohamed Nasheed was found guilty of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a judge when he was in power.

A year after explosive accusations that patients had died waiting for appointments at the VA in Phoenix, Arizona, the administration's path to making health care more accessible for America's veterans remains on shaky gr...

Neighbor of shooting scene: 'It was like out of a horror movie'; victims covered in blood

Three people died in the past year from a listeria outbreak that has been potentially linked to Blue Bell Creameries products, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The ice cream company issued a ...

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has re-ordered the execution of a man convicted for a crime his family and lawyers say was committed when he was a juvenile.