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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-...

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 ...

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...

What was to be a seven-day cruise from New Jersey to the Bahamas and back came to an early end Wednesday with the massive Anthem of the Seas back in port.

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More After a rough couple of days, Marco Rubio says he’s back on track. The Florida Senator stumbled badly during the last Republican debate, repeating the exact same phrase multiple times under pressure from New Jerse...

Rates of dementia are due to skyrocket in coming decades. But the latest study shows that the trend may be reversible, and that it won't take high-tech medicine to change the curve