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Trump's children would need to fill out a security questionnaire and go through background checks, and could be designated as outside national security advisers

On a concrete pad in the middle of a dusty village in northern Iraq, children sit attentively as an animated pair of teachers delivers the lesson. Keeping the attention of these youngsters could mean the difference betwe...

International military and security experts have warned that if Donald Trump wants to protect U.S. national security, he must fight to combat global climate change ― a phenomenon the Republican president-elect has dism...

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Authorities in El Salvador say suspected gang members have abducted and killed a soldier on leave, the 20th slaying of military personnel this year. The Attorney General's Office and National …

French President Francois Hollande says he wants the country's state of emergency prolonged until its presidential election next spring.

A deposed spiritual leader of Africa's most populous group of Muslims, former Sultan of Sokoto Ibrahim Dasuki, has died at age 93 while his son languishes in detention. Sambo Dasuki …

A local West Virginia official says she's been placed on leave after she made a racist post on Facebook about first lady Michelle Obama

The Greek government has launched a new round of talks with bailout creditors on demanded reforms and cutbacks, whose success could lead to a lightening of the country's debt load.

Libya's official news agency says a senior al-Qaida leader has been killed in a drone strike in the country's remote south. LANA reports that Abu Talha al-Hassnawi, a senior member …

A marine conservation group says fish catches in overfished European waters -- stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea -- could increase by 57 percent if stocks were managed sustainably.

Smoke from dozens of large wildfires is covering several states.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he hopes Donald Trump will shift course on global warming and "understand the seriousness and urgency" of addressing the problem. Ban said Tuesday that …

Hundreds of police officers searched about 190 offices, mosques and apartments of members and supporters of the Islamic group "The true religion" as the German government announced a ban of …

India's government says it will mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks with indelible ink as authorities struggle to deal with the corruption and bedlam spawned by the demonetizing of the co...

In this modern tale of two cities, it is the best of times in New York, and the worst of times in Chicago. While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently crowed about the "safest October" since the NYPD began compiling computerized...

Hate crimes overall ticked up 7 percent.

After being rocked by a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake, a wave of powerful aftershocks and heavy rain, thousands are now stranded in New Zealand.

Israel appointed an ambassador to Turkey on Tuesday, its first since both countries recalled their envoys five years ago amid a spat over a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish vessel trying to reach the Gaza Strip.

Days before a crucial French presidential primary, Nicolas Sarkozy is facing new allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal financing from late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Sarkozy …

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was considered the rarest of bird: an endangered House incumbent. He won his previous eight races by comfortable margins in a reliably Republican Southern California district, until Donald Tr...