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Richard Nixon was reëlected overwhelmingly in November, 1972, and resigned in August, 1974. Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, looks to be on about the same schedule: reëlected (not overwhelmingly) in October, 20...

Size — and a disability — doesn’t matter to this English woman! Katie Knowles, 25, is the UK's first plus-size disabled model, thumbing her nose at the degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis that have forced...

Jaelyn Young plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization

We ask why many former Afghan translators for the US military risk their lives to return to Afghanistan from the US.

The Cold War marked the high point of America's civil-defense system. Starting under President Harry Truman, the fear of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union sparked emergency communication systems, air-raid sirens, pl...

Lithuania's intelligence agency is concerned that migration and terrorism are distracting Western countries from Russia's "aggressive policies" toward its neighbors. …

As President Obama gathers leaders for his last Nuclear Security Summit, tons of materials that terrorists could use to make small nuclear devices or dirty bombs remain vulnerable to theft.

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Opponents of Venezuela's socialist administration are preparing for a fight over a congressional bid to give amnesty to activists the opposition considers political prisoners. …

Central African Republic's newly elected president Faustin Archange Touadera took the oath of office Wednesday, ushering in the first elected leader since Muslim rebels overthrew the government more than three years ago....

South Africa: Conservation group says 49 endangered vultures electrocuted by power lines this past weekend

A Georgia sheriff is being sued in federal court by the family of a 21-year-old Savannah man who died in a cell after he was shocked by a Taser while strapped to a restraint chair

Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen's conflict and has spiraled in a year since Shiite rebels seized the capital and Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the US, responded with a campaign of airstrik...

Htin Kyaw, a confidante of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been sworn in as Myanmar's president

Outcry erupts among Australians with divided views over their country's past

The United States and three allies are calling for a Security Council meeting to respond to Iran's recent ballistic missile tests which they say were carried out in defiance of a U.N. resolution. …

Moderator Anderson Cooper had no time for schoolyard excuses Tuesday night during the CNN Republican Town Hall, telling Donald Trump that "I didn't start it" isn't an argument that should be used by a presidential candid...

South African judicial authorities say sentencing hearings for Oscar Pistorius, who murdered girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will be held in June

SPRINGFIELD -- With Chicago State University asking employees and students to turn in their keys amid a financial meltdown, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday turned to a familiar argument about who's to blame. "I...

2 men who extorted thousands of dollars from contractors seeking work on golf course project receive prison sentences

President Obama's push to improve relations with Cuba has coincided with an influx of Cuban immigrants into the U.S., statistics show, amid revived talk on Capitol Hill about ending a decades-old law allowing them easy e...