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(Reuters) - Federal agents on Wednesday closed in on the last four anti-government militants still holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon after a 40-day-old armed occupation, the FBI said in a stateme...

A 20-year-old man allegedly shot and decapitated his grandparents inside an Oklahoma City home that doubled as a day care.

Two female backpackers from Europe were savagely attacked on a remote Australian beach by a traveling companion they had met hours earlier, police said on Wednesday. …

A smile can get you a long way with people -- and animals, it turns out.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly has his military chief executed for corruption and other charges If true, the execution would be the latest in a series of killings, purges and dismissals since Kim took power i...

New signs at the White House threaten prosecution for a rarely-enforced gun law.          

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Police say they know exactly who stole $75 from an Illinois photo booth, because it is, well, a photo booth.

Train derails after crashing into concrete block on tracks south of Cairo, state media report.

"It's just between me and him," Baldwin said.

For the first time since combat operations were declared over at the end of 2014, a battalion of 500 U.S. Army infantrymen is being sent to southern Afghanistan's volatile Helmand Province where the Taliban have made a c...

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard is going on trial on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder in western Germany, accused of serving in the death camp at a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were gassed....

More than 50 people were killed and a dozen injured Thursday at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico, after a riot and fire broke out there at about midnight. Security spokesman Antonio Arguello told Agence France-...

When Arcade Fire won in 2011 -- and shocked nearly everyone, including the band -- the award went to music that was new and worthy, not hit-driven.

Health officials worked on the problem in 2014 but gov. wasn't told until last month.          

Several dozen people appeared in a Hong Kong court Thursday to face rioting charges following a violent clash earlier this week between protesters and police sparked by a clampdown on holiday street food vendors. …

Iran's state television released footage of 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Tehran that appears to show one of the men in tears. U.S. military officials told CNN the video, released by broadcaster IRIB is likely authent...

At least a dozen email accounts handled the "top secret" intelligence that was found on Hillary Clinton's server and recently deemed too damaging for national security to release, a U.S. government official close to the ...

Proposal to legalise termination in cases of sex crime or where foetus cannot survive outside womb is rejected by 59 votes to 40 Proposals to relax Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws have been rejected. Stormont ass...

The estate of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in 2014, was notified Wednesday that it owes the city $500 for "ambulance advance life support" and mileage for Rice's ambulance...

Four weeks after Islamic State claimed killings, veteran extremists scorn its lack of relative success while experts fear local groups are now a growing threat with 'foreigners' in their sights As Abu Tholut sips on his ...

Labour's Hilary Benn is to declare that if Britain left the EU the country would be less able to deal with the migrant crisis.