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ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey

STOCKHOLM -- She was off duty and wearing a bikini but that didn’t stop Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner from catching a suspected thief. A photo of Kellner pinning the suspect to the ground was trending on socia...

A spokesman says there is "no evidence" that the campaign's "internal systems have been compromised"

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A woman who was recently released from prison in Oregon robbed a bank in Wyoming only to throw the cash up in the air outside the building and sit down to wait for police, authorities said Friday. Inves...

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has relieved two officers of their police powers following a police-involved shooting that left a suspect dead

Authorities say fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels in the restive southeast of the country has killed eight Turkish soldiers and 35 Kurdish fighters. …

Nearly 4,300 firefighters on central California's Big Sur coast continue to battle the Soberanes Wildfire, a raging blaze that has spread to cover about 50 square miles (or 32,000 acres). The fire began last Friday and i...

Head of NSA's elite hacking squad says they infiltrate other hackers' networks.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court ruled that a North Carolina law illegally targeted minorities with tougher ballot access rules, such as requiring photo identification to vote, adding a new partisan flashpoint i...

Our top 10 comments of the week: Readers discuss the Democratic convention, the acquittals in Freddie Gray's death and Yahoo's sale. And yes, Donald Trump.

MADISON, Wis. -- A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl tried to kill her brother’s girlfriend, slitting her throat and telling her during the attack that she was a psychopath looking for her first kill, according to investigato...

Teenager who murdered elderly French priest asked sister who witnessed attack if she was familiar with the Qur'an One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns w...

Public Health England advises pregnant women to consider postponing any non-essential trips to Florida amid concerns over the Zika virus.

The revelation about the breach came on the same day the the DCCC revealed a breach similar to the one suffered by the DNC

KRAKOW, Poland

Huge crowds expected at Saturday event in Brzegi, while up to 1.8 million believers are set to attend closing mass on Sunday As many as a million people are expected to gather for a vigil with Pope Francis near Kraków o...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called off a weeklong cease-fire after communist guerrillas killed a government militiaman and failed to declare their own truce by a Saturday deadline he had imposed. …

More than 1,000 people in Burundi participated in a government-backed demonstration in the capital, Bujumbura, to protest France's proposal approved by the U.N. Security Council to deploy U.N. police to the country. …

The friend of a man who killed a priest in France, who had tried to travel with him to Syria, was detained days before the attack, reports say.

U.S. Army Secretary Eric Fanning says annual war games between the United States and South Korea will go ahead next month, despite North Korea's warning of a "vicious" showdown if the military drills proceed. …

Representatives of billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch continue to turn down meeting requests from major fundraisers of the Donald Trump campaign, even after Trump formally claimed the Republican no...

You can't put a guard in every church and patrol every beach. But after a wave of attacks in Western Europe, authorities are struggling to protect their people as best they can. The French Riviera city of Cannes has bann...