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A man was hit and killed by a freight train in the West Beverly neighborhood Sunday morning, officials said. About 7 a.m., Chicago Fire Department crews were called to the 10300 block of South Maplewood Avenue. A man was...

President Donald Trump is spending the first full day of his "working vacation" quietly at his private golf club in central New Jersey

Lebanese state media says the army has captured a number of strategic hilltops from Islamic State group militants in the east of the country. The National News Agency says the …

A 22-year-old Homer Glen man was killed in an early morning crash Saturday in Homer Township, the Will County Coroner's Office reported. Richard A. Ostrowski was pronounced at 4:45 a.m. near South Cedar Road and West Bru...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is investigating up to $6 billion in legal settlement money that the Obama administration steered toward progressive causes and allies in left-wing advocacy groups. A memo sent to US attorn...

The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday, slashing by a third its $3 billion annual export revenue in retribution for Pyongyang's two July intercontinental ballistic missile te...

Chief of staff Nick Ayers says the New York Times article is "fake news."

Terrorism was the main topic when then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak spoke with Michael Flynn in December when Flynn was President Trump's national security adviser-designate, Kislyak said Saturday. "There are a few ...

An Iranian soldier opened fire on his colleagues, killing three and wounding 12 of them at a military air base in south Tehran, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.

An Afghan official says that at least 30 people including women and children have been killed by Taliban fighters in northern Sari Pul province. Zahir Wahdat, the provincial governor for …

The Latest on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Philippines (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Russia is anticipating difficulties in ensuring …

The son of the city's first black mayor is challenging its first white mayor in 40 years in an election that comes at a pivotal point for a remade Detroit.

MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that the United States’ special representative on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, would soon meet a senior aide to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Lavrov, who...

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was returned home to serve his sentence under house arrest, days after being hauled back to prison in the middle of the night in a …

The accused kidnapper of a 20-year-old British model in Italy is claiming he was a member of a underground network called "Black Death Group." The group boasts that it trafficks in drugs, guns, bombs and sex slaves in sh...

The White House is scheduled to undergo renovation while President Trump stays at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, for a 17-day visit he denies is a vacation. "Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned const...

Macedonia has declared a state of emergency in its southwestern mountainous region due to fear that a heat wave could spread multiple wildfires that have been raging in the country's …

A Venezuelan military base was subject to a "terrorist" attack late Saturday night, said Diosdado Cabello, head of Venezuela's ruling party and a loyalist of the deeply unpopular President Nicolas Maduro. However, video ...

Israel said Sunday it plans to ban Qatar's flagship Al-Jazeera news network from operating in the country, joining regional Arab states that shut down the broadcaster amid allegations that it …

To the young British model, the assignment probably seemed routine: Travel to Milan, pose for a few photographs. Just another ad campaign, her agency told her. But when she arrived at an address near Milan's Central Stat...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello says Sunday that there was a “terrorist” attack at a military base controlled by troops loyal to the government and several people were arrested. C...

The sanctions could cost North Korea about one-third of its foreign earnings. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson called it "a good outcome."