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"We must reduce the flow of migrants now ... because the refugee question can become a question of survival for the European Union"

Peace talks in Afghanistan resumed this week, but on several major issues neither side is likely to compromise.

Former FIFA president Blatter authorized a $2 million payment to Platini

ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- A woman bit down on a rare pearl while eating a meal of clams and other seafood at an Italian restaurant in Washington state. KOMO-TV reports Lindsay Hasz and her husband Chris were eating at Montalcin...

Report says G20 nations should develop measures that could be implemented quickly if global growth keeps wilting.

Park County Sheriff's Office in Colorado has identified the man who was killed by police today after he opened fire on them while serving him with an eviction notice. The

Three police officers for a wealthy suburb of the Mexican city of Guadalajara have been killed in a daytime attack. …

After months of cautious silence, Egypt acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that terrorists had downed the Russian jet that broke up over its Sinai Peninsula in October.

If you think your brain already has all the space it needs for memories and other info, you're right. It has that with room to spare. But file this nugget in your high-capacity noggin: We may have been lowballing it all ...

A Virginia County is declaring a state of emergency after a storm passed through, damaging scores of buildings, injuring several people and killing one man

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to appeal a recent federal court ruling that citizens can sometimes be stopped from recording police officers on duty

President Barack Obama accuses Senate Republicans of putting the Supreme Court's credibility at risk if they make good on their vow not to consider or vote on his pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia

President Barack Obama signed a bill Wednesday that includes a provision banning U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh, ...

Authorities say a Coast Guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground in an inlet off New York City

Some faculty members at the University of Houston say sensitive subjects may become taboo in their classrooms because of a law allowing Texas public university students to bring guns to class

The Florida Department of Health announced today that three pregnant women have tested positive for the Zika virus after traveling outside the United States.

"Today's ruling thrusts Louisiana into a reproductive health care crisis," says the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights

A series of shootings Wednesday left three people dead, including a 16-year-old boy, and two others, including a 72-year-old woman, injured, Chicago police said. At 6:24 p.m., police were called to the 400 block of South...

Josh Hamilton is recovering from severe burns on his right thigh after an electronic cigarette battery apparently exploded in his pocket over the weekend. The Owensboro, Kentucky, resident was paying for snacks at his lo...

WASHINGTON

European Union lawmakers are urging the bloc's foreign policy chief to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over airstrikes and a naval blockade in Yemen. …

Look around in any major Indian city, and you will find someone with an arm outstretched, mobile phone in hand, smiling widely and clicking away. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embraced the medium, posting picture...