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Progress on climate change hinges on placing women at the center of the COP21 agenda

At least 56 people arrested this year on charges related to their attempts to join or aid ISIL, a new report has found.

Parents of 43 students who disappeared in southern Mexico at the hands of police and a drug gang have lifted a protest camp in the capital. …

The Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea remains in the dark. Russian leaders have promised power will soon be restored, while Ukrainian activists say they are moving on to a sea blockade to completely isolate the annexed...

Prosecutors ask judge to dismiss involuntary manslaughter charges against 2 BP rig supervisors

Lack of audio, claims of deleted video among questions in teen's shooting by Chicago officer

Task force says Menzel drawing was looted by Nazis, 5th such finding in German art trove

FBI: Background checks for gun sales peak on Black Friday amid latest call for new gun laws

At least 100 fighters of ISIL-affiliated group are killed and stocks of weapons are seized in the military operation.

A man jumped inside a polar bear pit Wednesday at the Copenhagen Zoo, forcing zookeepers to fire rubber bullets at the 621-kilogram (1,369-pound) bear so they could rescue him. …

A court in the coastal city of Mombasa Wednesday sentenced a British national, who authorities say is an extremist who plotted attacks against the country, to nine years in prison for attempting to illegally acquire Keny...

It happened at Munich in 1972 when the brutal murder of 11 Israelis overshadowed the Olympic Games.

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As Obama pushes climate deal in Paris, Congress tries to stop carbon limits on US power plants

Ex-death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, 61, wins court hearing over medical care

Judge grants divorce to Mississippi same-sex couple after state Supreme Court clears the way

Clinton calls for US to address lingering 'injustices' in speech commemorating bus boycott

Mexico weathered a record eastern Pacific hurricane season with almost no deaths and relatively little damage, given the intensity of this year's storms. …

Some pet owners treat their canines like their kids. This couldn't be more evident in a round up of the year's most popular dog names: According to a recent survey by Rover.com, 49 percent of pet owners gave their pup a ...

It could signify a new activist movement

Russia's U.N. ambassador says he hopes to circulate a draft resolution to the Security Council very soon that will tighten the U.N. crackdown on the financing of terrorist groups including the Islamic State extremists. �...

Donald Trump has stayed on top, in part, by attacking any rival who threatens him in the polls and now the race may be shifting, and Trump's got some new targets. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.