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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself compared Thursday to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, a despot who has never had to worry about an election result. South Carolina Sen....

Consider this twisted scenario: A national publication unearths an essay written decades ago by a conservative Republican candidate for the White House in which the man describes, in deviant detail,...

He hid the winning ticket behind a pipe in his basement

Police have detained a 22-year-old French woman after she crossed into Turkey from Syria where she had joined the Islamic State militant group and married a fighter.

Police in Connecticut say a man called 911 to report that his cat attacked him.

See photos from Hong Kong's Victoria Park, where tens of thousands of people attended a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Tears at tragedy are evidence of faith

Tariq Aziz, a top Saddam Hussein adviser who served as Iraq's foreign minister and deputy prime minister, died of a heart attack at a hospital Friday, two officials in Iraq said.

A Pakistani court has overturned the life sentences of eight people convicted for their roles in the 2012 attack on Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, police said Friday.

Boko Haram suicide bombs rip through northeast Nigerian city killing 29, officials say

ISIS-inspired Boston terror suspect Usaamah Rahim's Friday burial has hit a snag as a cemetery balked at accepting his body.

Native American student wears eagle feather at graduation after suing California district

POW status, other info emerges on fallen US soldier left off New York hometown's WWII memorial

New report alleges US aid group raised almost $500m but only managed to build six homes in country devastated by quake.

In a new report, the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency says fracking is no cause for alarm.

Top-deck cabins poked out of the water from a capsized river cruise ship on the Yangtze on Friday after disaster teams righted the vessel to quicken the search for more than 360 victims still missing.

Hundreds gathered to honor the life of former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden on Thursday at a memorial service held in the Delaware Legislative State House in Dover.

Cleanup crews aren't the only ones working around the clock after a ruptured pipeline sent more than 100,000 gallons of heavy crude oil gushing onto a California state beach and into the ocean.

China to make pledge for global climate treaty this month, UN official says; Xi wrote to Ban

Hours before his fatal encounter with anti-terrorism officers, Usaamah Rahim told an associate he was switching from plans to behead a conservative blogger to assaults on the "boys in blue."

It's been exactly a year since the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began its rampage through northern Iraq, seizing Mosul and Tikrit in short order as Iraqi security forces fled south. The group has proved its resilience...

A boy was killed and his father and sister were injured at Kennedy's Chicken and Sandwiches late Thursday afternoon, the police said. The driver, 73, fled but was quickly caught.