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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...

The United Kingdom's intelligence agency has strongly denied White House allegations it spied on US President Donald Trump on behalf of former President Barack Obama during the 2016 election.

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.

Authorities said they expect intense rains caused by the warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean to continue another two weeks

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...

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

Japanese ruling and opposition parties have given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a proposal urging his government to write a special one-time law that would allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate. Friday's …

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

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...

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...

Kenny Kosar will never forget the moment he came face-to-face with notorious murderer Charles Manson.

An American woman convicted in her mother's "suitcase murder" in Indonesia has given custody of her young daughter to an Australian woman until her release from prison. Heather Mack broke down in tears as she gave 2-year...

The Philippine government has rejected a call by the European Parliament for the immediate release of Sen. Leila de Lima, a leading critic of the president who has been detained …

"Fight, fight, fight," she said. "Be bold, be courageous, the nation's counting on you."