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The U.N. believes the civilians are intended to be used as human shields or killed

His surprise victory ended an erratic and grievance-filled campaign that took direct aim at his own party and long-held ideals of American democracy.

It's the first state to provide constitutional protections for capital punishment

Police say someone with an assault rifle killed one person and wounded two others Tuesday near two Los Angeles-area polling sites that were locked down as a result

Just before 10 p.m. ET on Election Day, The New York Times gave Donald Trump a 59 percent chance of winning the presidency. The latest projection marked a drastic shift from just hours before, when The New York Times pro...

Both the Bush and Clinton clans share an abhorrence of what Trump would do to the country

Voters from coast to coast reported a myriad of problems at the polls on Tuesday -- from malfunctioning machines and voter intimidation to maddeningly long lines. Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for C...

United States President-elect Donald Trump will have a lot of global challenges to deal with, and China is one of them. Here's what you need to know.

After the most grimly horrifying presidential election in living memory, we are left with a shocking upset in favor of the horror: Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton. This is a victory for racist nationalism over ...

In one of the most shocking U.S. elections in modern political history, Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton. The Associated Press called the race for Trump at just about 2:30 am Wednesday morning. Trump’s upset w...

The shooter remained at large in Azusa, Calif., the police said.

All around the country, people have come out to show their colors

With the Republican nominee Donald Trump being elected as the 45th president of the United States, there remains a large part of the American society that is not happy with the popular mandate, causing instances of rioti...

Advances by the Democrats did not appear to be enough to amass the 30 additional seats they needed to capture the chamber majority.

Donald Trump seemed to run harder against the media than against Hillary Clinton some days. One was “dishonest,” he’d say, the other “crooked.”And neither, he argued, was on the side of Americans. On Tuesday, h...

Donald Trump scored a stunning and historic upset victory in the presidential election Wednesday morning, once again defying predictions and winning key battleground states to capture the White House. Giddy supporters at...

"It feels like we are trying to avoid the apocalypse, and half the country are voting for the asteroid"

A 4-year-old girl was decapitated and her arms were severed last week in rural India as part of a black magic ritual aimed at finding a lost cell phone. The girl went missing on October 24 in the Charaideo district of up...

Here's how the markets are moving on Election Day as U.S. voters decide who controls the White House and Congress.

Colin Kaepernick wasn't among them

A Pennsylvania woman tied up her boyfriend's 4-year-old son and forced him to eat laxatives and hot sauce because he was another woman's child, authorities said. Danielle Miller, 31, bound the boy at his legs during what...