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Buddhist monks joined several hundred protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar on Thursday to demand it stop using the term "Rohingya" to refer to a Muslim ethnic minority group. …

After years of falling, the number of U.S. road fatalities jumped 8 percent last year, according to preliminary National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, and the NHTSA and other public health and safety expert...

Russia said Wednesday it has asked the U.N. Security Council to blacklist two powerful Syrian rebel groups that it considers "terrorist organizations," one which is playing a key role in political negotiations aimed at e...

The Swedish actress takes the helm from Angelina Jolie, who played the character in the early 2000s

French protesters are back on the streets over proposed reforms to the country's labor rules as strikers impacted air traffic in the capital's Orly Airport

An inmate at a Wisconsin jail locked a deputy in a cell and made threats with a knife-like weapon he apparently whittled from a Scrabble game letter tray

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Dennis Murphy, Jr. was charged this week after failing a breathalyzer last April and blaming his gum

The vice president will urge senior Iraqi officials to put their nation's interests above sectarian, regional or personal ones.

The facility, which worked with Doctors Without Borders, was destroyed, killing one of the only pediatricians in the area.

Prosecutors will ask a federal judge to sentence the longtime girlfriend of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) to three more years in prison for refusing to testify about whether anyone else helped Bulger ...

A former San Francisco police lieutenant incriminated in a racist texting scandal charged with obstructing the rape investigation of a subordinate officer was arrested Wednesday, police said

Gay rights group sues DOJ for documents related to 1953 order that let federal agencies investigate and fire employees thought to be gay

The publisher of a leading magazine on Chinese and regional defense issues says he's leaving Hong Kong out of concern he could be targeted by China's state security bodies, a further sign of how Beijing's growing presenc...

The U.N. Security Council will hold an informal meeting on May 6 on the protection of Palestinian civilians, an issue the Palestinians have pressed for decades and say is more needed now than ever. …

The origin of the subpoenas and their targets suggested that officials were delving into the mayor's efforts for State Senate Democrats in 2014.

Researchers say a massive lake may lie under the surface of Antarctica's ice sheet, possibly harboring life forms that have spent millions of years in isolation. Looking at satellite images, researchers spotted grooves i...

An Apple employee was found dead in a conference room inside the company's headquarters in Cupertino Wednesday, authorities said

"Cruz can't win," Trump said. "What's he doing picking vice presidents? "

The hardware is shaping up for a trip to the Red Planet--and soon

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