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Ex-President Michel Martelly’s presidential pick Jovenel Moïse agrees to rerun election Three top finishers endorse Jude Célestin in new round At least 24 out of 54 presidential candidates have confirmed their partic...

Florida wildlife officials believe they've captured the alligator that dragged a 2-year-old Nebraska boy into the Seven Seas Lagoon at Walt Disney World.

North Korea claimed to have conducted a successful test-firing of a intermediate-range missile on Thursday -- an apparent reference to a missile that the South Korean military said was fired into the sea one day earlier.

Schools across China have been ordered to remove running tracks made from toxic materials that have been blamed for sickening students, in the latest in a long line of product scandals blamed on corruption and weak overs...

It was the 15th leg of a planned around-the-world flight

An Egyptian hijacker who's fighting his extradition says Egypt's military-backed government "must have tortured and murdered" an Italian doctoral student who he claims he saw being interrogated in a Cairo prison. …

Some U.N. peacekeeping units and officers who did not respond to a deadly attack on a U.N. base in South Sudan where 48,000 civilians had sought refuge will be sent home, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Wednesday. …

After approximately 30 Democratic lawmakers staged a sit-in on the House floor Wednesday to push House Republicans to hold a vote on gun control legislation, Speaker Paul Ryan tried to gavel the house to order at around ...

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made the term "Make America Great Again" popular during his campaign, but Tennessee restaurant owner Rick Tyler is giving him a run for his money -- or sloga...

WASHINGTON -- A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama’s immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation. The justices’ one-sentence opinion on ...

Police said Thursday that there is a "threat situation" at a movie theater in a town in southwestern Germany which probably involves a weapon. …

A Pakistani provincial minister says his local government has allocated $3 million to a Taliban-linked seminary in the region, along the border with Afghanistan. Mushtaq Ghani said Thursday that the funds will be used to...

They are protesting the lack of a vote on gun-control legislation

The standoff continued until early Thursday as the House speaker took the remarkable step of calling a vote on a major appropriations bill in the wee hours and without any debate.

The investigation comes more than 60 years after the iconic photo was taken

A U.N. report says that an estimated quarter of a billion people between the ages of 15 and 64 years, used at least one banned drug in 2014

WHO plans urgent yellow fever vaccinations along Angola, Congo border as epidemic grows

Democrats said a tentative proposal had unrelated provisions they would never accept, including an effort to restrict government financing of Planned Parenthood.

A New York woman is set to stand trial on charges she was part of a group that beat her half-brother to death during a church counseling session

South Sudan spiralled into civil war at the end of 2013 after President Salva Kiir sacked deputy Riek Machar.

Festival organizers have urged visitors to arrange postal votes

A Chinese student has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend while they were both studying in Iowa.