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"Tell your niece I really like her letter," the president wrote.

A remarkable photo exemplifies the Memorial Day spirit.

The state of Indiana had to pay more than $1.4 million in fees to plaintiffs' attorneys in its unsuccessful attempt to maintain a ban on same-sex marriages, the attorney general's office says.

Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr. sees his background as an Asian-American as useful in helping the U.S. forge better relationships with its allies and other powers

Exiled government says it will not attend Thursday's summit in Geneva unless Houthis withdraw from captured territory.

"This case to me is a perfect example of the failure of the criminal justice system," the jail's executive director said

Could it be blowing from farm to farm in the dirt? Could determined starlings and pigeons be carrying it into poultry houses on their feet? Is it spreading in feed, or being carried on truck tires? Federal agriculture of...

Rebels are claiming to have shot down a Saudi Arabian fighter jet on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, a Houthi military official said, but the Yemeni Embassy in Washington denied the claim as the Saudis remained silent.

Marks first Memorial Day since 9/11 without ground troops in combat

One person was arrested Sunday evening after a bomb squad detonated a pressure cooker that was found in a vehicle near the U.S. Capitol building. 

Tobias Hutzler photographed them from a helicopter

Calm returned to the streets of Cleveland on Sunday, a day after protests broke out in the wake of the Michael Brelo verdict.

As Josh Duggar’s admittance of “wrongdoing” continues to make headlines in the wake of sexual molestation allegations, a video has resurfaced showing the 19 Kids and Counting star making what appears to be a joke a...

Power outage leaves 6 stuck on roller coaster, including 3 kids; all rescued, no injuries

There is almost no gas left in Nigeria. CNN's Christian Purefoy shows us how people are handling the situation.

In 1975, Vietnam's "boat people" clambered into rickety boats to flee the Communist regime. Christiane Amanpour has their story.

A hazardous new synthetic drug known as flakka is being blamed for 18 recent deaths in a single South Florida county.

Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group is engaged in an existential battle against ISIL across all of Syria.

Flooding from record-setting rains in Texas and Oklahoma swept away hundreds of homes and left at least three people dead.

Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., whose life inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind," and his wife died in a car crash, according to New Jersey State Police.

A high-ranking separatist commander was killed in eastern Ukraine when his car was attacked in Luhansk region, his battalion announced in a video statement Sunday.

The campaign by activist groups seemed as much about putting behind a past entrenched in theocracy and tradition as it was about marriage for gays.