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Powell said as secretary of state, he used a personal computer hooked up to a private phone line that didn't go through State Department servers

Demonstrators and lawyers welcomed the ruling

The Maldives Independent reports that it is facing allegations of a "conspiracy to overthrow the elected government"

The Wikileaks founder, fearing U.S. extradition, has been holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy for four years

Donald Trump stood by his past comment that military sexual assaults should be expected "when they put men and women together" in the US armed forces during an NBC-hosted forum Wednesday night. But he added that a "court...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that governing the church wasn't his strong suit but says he doesn't see his papacy as a failure and that he succeeded at least in breaking up the Vatican's so-called "gay lobby...

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Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says he was harassed in a Margarita island airport for four hours by armed and hooded government supporters. …

Trump boasted that he was self-funding his campaign from the very beginning, but some of that campaign money is going directly to his own businesses

As her kidnapper drove toward Washington state, Montana resident Rita Maze called her husband from the trunk of her car, where her captor locked her, authorities say.

Make America cake again! McKenzie Gill was hoping to celebrate her 18th birthday ― and the fact that she would be eligible to vote ― with a cake that said “TRUMP 2016” on it. But the bakery department at Alberts...

Traditional practices, poverty, last year's massive earthquake and Nepal's ongoing political instability mean child marriages remain a serious problem in the country, where 10 percent of the girls marry before they are 1...

Tonight's Commander-in-Chief forum, co-sponsored by NBC and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), offers one of the few opportunities thus far to hear the presidential candidates discuss their views on nationa...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has appointed a retired U.S. Army general as a special adviser to Ukraine's defense minister. …

A German court has ordered a 15-year-old boy to do community work and write an essay titled "Why you shouldn't make jokes with toy weapons" after he threw a fake hand grenade in front of a teacher and shouted "Allahu akb...

The Latest on Europe's migrant crisis (all times local): …

A Kenyan police official says one person died and five others survived when a plane crashed near an airstrip in Kenya's Rift Valley. …

French President Francois Hollande called for the creation of "an Islam of France" and the removal of foreign-trained extremist imams in a key speech Thursday on the challenges radical Islam poses to democracy.

South Sudanese activists say they face government intimidation in retaliation for meeting with the visiting U.N. Security Council last weekend, and some have fled the turbulent country. …

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But in both these cases the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic ...

Abbas and Netanyahu likely to meet in Moscow, Russian foreign ministry says, but the date is yet to be decided.

Video footage shows two people on bicycles assaulting the man and riding away