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It's the last state flag to feature the Confederate battle emblem, and for a moment after the 2015 Charleston shootings it seemed like its days were numbered.

Bikers and fireworks in Iraq's capital Baghdad as Iraqi forces take control of 80% of the contested city of Fallujah.

A jury has convicted a former Vanderbilt football player of encouraging his teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. It took jurors just over four hours of deliberation Saturday before finding Brandon V...

Jen Betz, a mom from rural Bucks County, Pa., knew something was wrong at the house next door, with its boarded windows and high weeds. She'd seen seven or eight girls adrift in those weeds, all in blue dresses and with ...

In a videoconference with Russian counterparts, American defense officials discussed an attack on U.S.-backed forces who are fighting the Islamic State and who should be covered by a cease-fire.

The company, the latest in a string of sponsors to drop out, was said to be uncomfortable with Mr. Trump's comments on trade with China, data encryption, Muslims and immigrants.

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Authorities in Las Vegas arrested a 19-year-old man after he allegedly tried to disarm a police officer at the Donald Trump presidential rally.

President Barack Obama draws attention to the dangers of climate change while on a visit to Yosemite National Park in California.

He says people on watch lists shouldn't be allowed to buy guns.

Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ai Weiwei, Michael Moore and Ken Loach are among prominent voices demanding WikiLeaks founder be allowed to walk free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange starts his fifth year camped out in t...

Kevin West said he was in the parking lot at the Pulse nightclub at 1 a.m. Sunday when he recognized Omar Mateen walking in. The men had met more than a year before, when Mateen reached out to West on Jack'd, a dating ap...

An Indonesian official says 24 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in central Java and many others remain missing. …

At least 11 children and an adult die after a storm catches a boating party on Lake Syamozero in northern Russia's Karelia region.

He was kept in a small room for five months

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked while on holiday in Ibiza.

Regional adversaries Qatar and Egypt have renewed their animosity, trading harshly-worded statements over the sentencing to death by a Cairo court of six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, for allegedly passing ...

Israeli government approves $18 million in extra funding for West Bank settlements

Air strikes hit Tabqa as Syrian government and allies press on with offensive in Raqqa province.

More Americans now support Donald Trump's push to suspend Muslim immigration after last week's Pulse nightclub assault, according to a new poll. The Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday found that 45 percent of American...

Residents dispute authorities' claim that Lin Zulian was detained for misusing power in village known for mass protests.

The UK faces an "existential choice" in the EU referendum from which there would be "no turning back", David Cameron says, but the Leave campaign urges people to "vote for democracy".