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A rare photo of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid purchased for less than a subway ride could now be fetch $5 million. The outlaw, whose real name was William H....

Officials did not elaborate on the nature of the evidence

Raw sewage has flooded the basement of a Wards Island homeless shelter six times in the past two years, according to critics who say the city must do more to...

Scores of Chinese officials have been caught in the dragnet of President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign. Here are some of the highest-profile victims.

Many of them have been in jail without trial since 1997

It's not often that a bit of facial hair can get you into trouble. But for a group of Swedish men, their beards -- and a familiar-looking flag -- had them mistaken for an ISIS terror cell.

Nation's largest law enforcement agency reduces use-of-force incidents.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will write to the Saudi government to discuss the "extremely concerning case" of a 74-year-old Briton sentenced to 360 lashes for possessing homemade wine, the prime minister's spokes...

GILZE-RIJEN, Netherlands

WARWICK, R.I. -- A Rhode Island man who weighs nearly 800 pounds says he’s determined to slim down and he dreams of becoming an actor one day. Steven Assanti, of...

A Danish photographer who endured months of torture at the hands of Islamic State extremists says the terrorist killer known as "Jihadi John" forced him to stand for days and dance the Tango at a prison in Syria.

Hillary Clinton said that she's "always in favor of women running" for president, and does not think Carly Fiorina should be judged differently because she is the only woman in the Republican race. "People need to hold w...

A memo from a top federal law-enforcement official indicates he knew about a botched drug-smuggling investigation that violated a treaty with Mexico, got an informant killed and also funneled $100,000...

Pentagon starts scouting sites in Colorado to hold prisoners from base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Two Kansas City firefighters were killed and two others were injured late Monday after a burning building collapsed on the city's northeast side.

Japan's government said Tuesday that it is considering cutting funding for UNESCO after the United Nations world heritage body included documents on the World War II Nanjing Massacre in its Memory of the World register t...

Hours before Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, front-runner Hillary Clinton ripped into Republican contender Donald Trump at a union rally outside one of the businessman's own casinos.

The Philippines on Tuesday backed a reported U.S. plan to challenge China's territorial claims by deploying a Navy ship close to a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea, saying it was important for the internationa...

Police say landslide crashes through makeshift homes in southern Pakistan, killing 13 people

Aaron Hernandez due in court in double murder case as prosecutors seeks access to evidence

Okinawa's governor on Tuesday revoked approval for work needed to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of the southern Japanese island to another, but the Tokyo government said it would still proceed with the plan.

LAS VEGAS -- Just in case Vice President Joe Biden wants to shake up the first Democratic presidential debate, CNN has reserved a sixth podium for him at Tuesday night's...