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JACKSON, Miss. -- The FBI says 17 people have been charged in north Mississippi as part of a major operation targeting suspected gang members called “Operation Bite Back.” FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Alway announ...

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Alvarenga denies the allegation

The Obama administration may be moving toward one of the biggest transfers of Guantanamo Bay prisoners in years, as part of the president's slow-moving and still-controversial push to empty the camp.

WASHINGTON — A top data staffer for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been fired amid allegations that the campaign breached voter data from rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign. As a result, the Democ...

Two Muslim security guards at a Paris airport claim they were fired because of their long beards - though one insisted his fuzz was only a "hipster fashion." After the November terror attacks, officials at Orly Airport a...

TOKYO -- Japan executed two people by hanging on Friday, including one who was convicted in a jury trial for the first time under a new system that began six years ago. Sumitoshi Tsuda was found guilty of killing three p...

Iran is hosting an international cartoon contest–on the Holocaust. Organizers of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennia claim the event is not meant to either approve or deny the genocide that claimed the lives ...

What was good enough for Scarface is good enough for Martin Shkreli, the smirking drug-company price gouger preying on AIDS and cancer patients, the elderly and sick babies. So it's a securities fraud case that sent G-me...

As part of the pope's year of mercy, Mother Teresa will be canonized in Rome next September, an Italian newspaper reports. Avvenire says Mother Teresa, who spent her life helping the poor and sick in Kolkata, will be ele...

China's capital Beijing issued its second smog red alert of the month on Friday, triggering vehicle restrictions and forcing schools to close. …

The issue of replica guns reached national attention last year following the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice

The House on Friday approved a $1.1-trillion spending plan that will keep the government funded through September 2016. The bill also marks the first major congressionally-approved change to ObamaCare with the suspension...

Spiritual retreats involving consumption of the highly hallucinogenic beverage have become increasingly popular

This week's question: Donald Trump's doctor released a medical report stating that the GOP presidential front-runner would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," despite his lack of exercise and a...

President Dilma Rousseff on Friday replaced Finance Minister Joaquim Levy, a fiscal conservative appointed just over a year ago, with a close ally, Planning Minister Nelson Barbosa, the Brazilian leader's office said in ...

The pretax benefit for commuters who ride trains and buses will increase to $255 a month next year and be permanently on par with the tax break for people who drive to work and pay to park their cars, under legislation p...

The governor of New Mexico faced intense criticism Friday after police tapes disclosed she was part of an allegedly boisterous party at a high-end Santa Fe hotel that led to a call to police.

U.N. Security Council members approved a resolution Friday outlining a peace process for Syria involving talks by representatives of the Damascus government and the opposition, but the draft says nothing on the critical ...

Military says it killed at least 62 fighters in three days of clashes near the Turkish-Iraq border region.

Ten months ago, Jerode Cursey walked out of a Lake County courthouse a free man, after a jury acquitted him of murder. Cursey, 24, was found dead inside his burning van early Thursday in a garage in the 1800 block of Pen...

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