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New Zealand police have shot dead a trainee bomb detector puppy that was running amok at Auckland Airport Friday, drawing condemnation from animal rights activists.

President Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget blueprint Thursday, with a top aide saying that Americans who backed him got "exactly what they voted for" -- big hikes in defense spending and deep cuts to domestic progr...

Government sends in soldiers to enforce rule that 90% of wheat must be used for loaves, not cakes, to combat hoarding and shortages Venezuela this week arrested four bakers making illegal brownies and other pastries as P...

Jessica Fromm and her mother-in-law used to have a great relationship. It ended as soon as her mother-in-law moved into their small brick house in Chicago four years ago. "Rules don't apply to her," Fromm said of her mot...

The US says it carried out an air strike killing several militants, but denied it had hit a mosque.

David Clarke, the mustachioed and cowboy-hatted sheriff of Milwaukee County, made a request to the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month. In a March 9 letter to acting director of Immigration and Customs Enf...

The US military has disputed local claims that US airstrikes killed dozens of Syrian civilians attending prayers at a village mosque, saying instead that the strike targeted and killed al Qaeda militants.

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A group of tourists and a BBC camera crew have made a dramatic escape after Europe's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna in Italy, erupted Thursday.

A federal judge is poised to issue a ruling any day in the controversial case of a painting hung at the U.S. Capitol depicting a police officer as a pig. Judge John D. Bates heard arguments Wednesday over whether the arc...

Derek Benjamin Greer, 15, and Natalie Partida, 16, were found dead on Sunday.

International Energy Agency report puts halt in emissions from energy down to growth in renewable power Carbon dioxide emissions from energy have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew, th...

Fearing extinction, indigenous tribes in Indonesia call on the government to protect their land rights.

The White House tried to mend a rupture between the United States and Britain over claims that a British spy agency was used to conduct surveillance on President Trump.

President and German leader couldn't be more different - and they'll meet for first time at White House today

Anti-aircraft missiles were launched from Syria into Israeli-controlled territory early Friday following a series of Israeli airstrikes in Syria, the Israeli military said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Investigators say a fight over doughnuts led to a man to kill his mother’s fiance and wound a Florida sheriff’s deputy. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said it began Wednesday when 24-y...

Claims are "nonsense, utterly ridiculous and should be ignored", the intelligence agency says.

It's a jungle out there on the Monopoly game board. Hasbro Inc. announced Friday that three new game pieces – a rubber duck, penguin and Tyrannosaurus Rex – will be joining the venerable game of Atlantic City real es...

You could spend a lifetime looking for diamonds at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park, but it only took 14-year-old Kalel Langford about 30 minutes on Saturday to find a real keeper, USA Today reports. "Its color wa...

An Oklahoma Republican state senator who campaigned as a champion of family values was booked on felony prostitution charges on Thursday after police found him in a motel room with a teenage boy and drugs, court document...

A helicopter gunship attacked a boat packed with Somali migrants off the coast of Yemen overnight Thursday, killing at least 31 people, according to a U.N. agency, Yemeni officials and a survivor who witnessed the attack...