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The United States launched nearly five dozen cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield early Friday in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians, the first direct assault on the Damascus government...

Before he was president, Donald Trump wrote that the U.S. should not bomb Syria in a number of tweets from 2013 to 2014. As the White House ordered strikes on Syria late Thursday, several of those old tweets were recircu...

SEATTLE -- A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayo...

BERLIN -- Behind a metal gate in Berlin, in a small courtyard nestled between a residential building and a car park, stands a piece of American history. The Detroit home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks has been painstaki...

A general is among the four Syrian soldiers that were reportedly killed during a U.S. missile strike against the al-Shayrat airfield near Homs, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says the str...

President Trump said, "There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council."

A new batch of CIA documents published by WikiLeaks on Friday includes 27 manuals detailing a malware installer framework codenamed "Grasshopper." This software allows the spy agency to get around computer security measu...

The Russian Defense Ministry has released aerial footage of the damaged Shayrat air base in Syria after it was pounded by US cruise missiles. Russia said only 23 of the 59 missiles fired from US warships hit their mark, ...

WASHINGTON -- Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites. Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous ...

Maldives police have arrested a leader of opposition political party on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government. A joint opposition statement said Jumhooree Party leader and lawmaker Qasim …

JOHANNESBURG - Supporters of legal rhino horn trade in South Africa say the country’s top court has ruled in their favor, rejecting a government appeal to preserve a 2009 ban on the domestic trade. Rhino breeder John H...

The United States fired cruise missiles into central Syria early Friday morning, striking an Assad government-controlled air base where U.S. officials say the Syrian military launched a deadly chemical attack that killed...

Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of the conflict

The Latest on the truck crashing into a department store in central Stockholm. (all times local): 4:55 p.m. Top European Union officials have expressed their condolences to the families of …

Congo's prime minister has stepped down three months after being chosen by President Joseph Kabila, as tensions mount over the fate of a political agreement with the opposition. Kabila on …

People are seen running after a vehicle drove into pedestrians on a street in Stockholm, Sweden.

This cat wanted to be the top dog on this show. A brash feline interrupted the mayor of Riga, Latvia, during a live online program this week, sauntering over to his mug and taking a sip. Mayor Nils Usakovs was speaking a...

A Russian official responded early Friday to the US missile attack on Syria by calling for a meeting of the UN security council. "This [the attack] could be viewed as an act of aggression of the US against a UN nation," ...

Police say at least two killed and many injured in the incident on the main Drottninggatan street in the capital.

President Trump's decision to order American forces to fire dozens of missiles at a Syrian air base — in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that the U.S. believes was authorized by the government of Bashar al-As...

President Trump's base of far-right supporters is not onboard with his decision to order missile strikes in Syria. Shortly after the U.S. launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase Thursday night in respons...

Republicans triggered the nuclear option and changed Senate rules, setting the state for Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court. We are covering it live below.