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The move reflects Xi's assertion of himself as one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades

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Of that number, 850,000 are said to be in need of urgent humanitarian assistance

Prosecutors allege that former Booz Allen employee Harold Martin pilfered top secret documents over two decades

The foul-mouthed Philippine president, who once called the pope a "son of a bitch" and told Barack Obama to "go to hell," says he has promised to God he won't …

Investigating the threat to the U.S., Diane Sawyer speaks with a young man convicted for providing support to ISIS.

Meanwhile, Iraqi special forces are just 5 miles from Mosul, waiting to strike.

Republican Donald Trump has found a handy way to overcome his low poll numbers and his suspicion that the election may be rigged: Just cancel the whole thing and get on with his coronation — er, inauguration already. S...

Republican contributors shifted their focus to House and Senate races, filings showed, and Mr. Trump gave no cash to his campaign in the first three weeks of October.

With the ISIS heartland in Iraq and Syria imploding, its support groups in the periphery, as well as rival groups such as al Qaeda, are gathering momentum.

A career criminal got a break this week when a judge dismissed a $1,000 fine against him -- because cops kept arresting an innocent man with the same name over the unpaid penalty. Robert Colon, 54, of Brooklyn, says his ...

Harold Martin was arrested in late August and has been charged with stealing and keeping highly classified material over the course of 20 years

The agreement covers an area about twice the size of Texas in the Ross Sea

Pakistani police have charged with batons and fired tear gas at stone-throwing supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan who are rallying in Islamabad in defiance of a government-imposed ban on demonstrations....

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Stores and schools are closed and rush-hour traffic noticeably lighter as many residents in Venezuela's capital have stayed home to express their opposition to President Nicolas Maduro.

This report and the monthly unemployment figures next month are the last snapshots of the overall economy before voters go to the polls on Nov. 8.

"If you are not guilty, why should you be afraid?" the mayor told The New York Times in August.

But only if rebel forces agree to let civilians leave the city, foreign minister says

Swedish prosecutors say a request from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy in London without being detained in order to attend a funeral has been dismissed on procedural grounds.

A GOP senator mocked the American heritage of his Democratic rival during a debate Thursday — an apparent attempt at humor that bombed spectacularly. The exchange came when Sen. Mark Kirk (R -Illinois) responded to Rep...

Croatia's prime minister says his country will use its recent European Union admission experience to help Bosnia join the alliance as fast as possible. Andrej Plenkovic began a two-day visit …