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Despite several musicians' contentious responses to inauguration invites, a wide selection of popular guests will perform

The rally was meant to send a clear message to the incoming president.

"If you try to go tweet-to-tweet with him, more often than not you're not going to succeed," a candidate to lead the Democratic National Committee said at a forum.

Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday to open a Palestinian embassy in Vatican City.

Bookmakers are setting inauguration odds on everything from the Bible Donald Trump will use at his Jan. 20 swearing-in, to whether he mentions Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton or hacking during his address. Bettors can wa...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Bahrain on Sunday carried out its first executions since an Arab Spring uprising rocked the country in 2011, putting to death three men found guilty of a deadly bomb attack on police. The e...

Serbia is warning Kosovo it will defend "every inch of its territory," including its former province where Serbs allegedly are under threat from Kosovo Albanians. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic issued …

Donald Trump is poised to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin within weeks of becoming president, a report said Saturday. Team Trump has informed British officials that their first foreign trip will be a meeting with the R...

Kamiyah Mobley and the woman she long believed to be her mother were "always happy, always together" in the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina, family friend Melissa Hiers recalled Saturday.

At least 18 House Democrats will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremonies this Friday, with some planning to leave for their home districts and others intending to march with protesters in Washin...

Congo's government says 250 armed members of a former rebel group have crossed from Uganda into Congo. Government spokesman Lambert Mende said Sunday the government was surprised by the incursion …

Police in Brazil have entered two prisons in the country's northern state of Rio Grande do Norte where a riot left at least 10 inmates dead on Saturday, authorities said …

Muslim villagers in western Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state said Sunday that they hope positive change will result from a U.N. envoy's visit to the region, where soldiers are accused of …

Pope Francis is demanding that "every possible measure" be taken to protect young refugees as he marks the church's World Day of Migrants a day after the latest Mediterranean migrant …

Jordan's interior and foreign ministers have been replaced in a Cabinet reshuffle, at a time of public discontent with perceived security lapses and rising unemployment. King Abdullah II swore in …

An elaborately decorated Serbian nationalist train took off Saturday from Belgrade aiming for northern Kosovo but halted at the border in a stunt that triggered a dramatic escalation of tensions between the former wartim...

Japan's attempt to launch one of the smallest-ever rockets into space has ended in failure.

Vanita Gupta calls Chicago police's accountability systems "broken," says the city has been done a disservice

China's Foreign Ministry has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that he might use support of Taiwan as a bargaining chip in future negotiations between the two sides. Spokesman Lu Kang …

Deployment marks first time Western forces are being deployed on continuous basis to NATO's eastern flank

Fighting between rival gangs in a prison in northern Brazil on Saturday has reportedly left at least 10 inmates dead in the latest in a series of massacres in the South American country's penitentiaries. Three of the vic...

Alberto Rafael Ramírez, 29, a onetime bus driver, put a cigarette in his mouth and passed two others to friends as they paced violently, arguing with themselves over whether they …