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ALBION, N.Y. -- A 10-year-old girl who was beaten repeatedly, forced to run with heavy packs and dragged behind a car escaped her tormentors as they slept to ask a neighbor for help, police in central New York said Frida...

The $7.8bn would be a first instalment in the massive relief effort following Hurricane Harvey.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Police are looking for a man who they say beat his former girlfriend and two children with a hammer in their Sacramento home. Sacramento Police say the Friday morning attack left the 7-year-old girl...

The U.S. increased its tally of government personnel affected

FRESNO, Calif. -- A recovery team using a helicopter and a winch on Friday dragged a car from the middle of a dangerous California river where it had been stranded for more than a month and freed two bodies inside believ...

Just what the Russians had set afire at their consulate in San Francisco, a day after the State Department ordered it shuttered, remains a burning question.

Harvey will cost the equivalent of 1 percent of the nation's GDP -- about $190 billion -- and every American will be feeling the pinch at least through the end of the year, an ­expert said Friday. The catastrophe "is ju...

WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Authorities say state troopers who pulled over a driver for following too closely behind a bus on Interstate 95 in West Greenwich found 34 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle after smelling the pot...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dozens of cooling centers opened throughout California, schools let students out early and outdoor events were cancelled as temperatures soared from a heat wave expected to last through the Labor Day wee...

At least 11 people were injured in the attack.

Russia packed up its tiny Midtown trade mission and two other diplomatic facilities in San Francisco and Washington Friday, ahead of President Trump's deadline to get out. Men moved furniture into blue vans parked outsid...

Kelly said he hasn't been spoken to like that in 35 years of public service.

Armed police led a controlled evacuation of the cricket ground when a crossbow arrow was found.

President Donald Trump brought plenty of optimism and swagger to Texas on his first visit to survey Harvey's wreckage

Young people are the largest group of people affected by disasters

But their efforts are not unusual

Salt Lake City police apologized Friday for arresting a nurse who, citing hospital policy, refused to let officers draw blood from an unconscious crash victim. The arrest of Alex Wubbels, who was later released without c...

Salt Lake City police put a detective on paid leave after prosecutors called for a criminal investigation into him dragging and handcuffing a nurse

Police in Bangladesh are ignoring orders to prevent people fleeing violence across the border.

Trump will travel to Texas and Louisiana.

The US-led coalition vows not to allow IS fighters and their families to reach Iraq, and bombs their path.

He is a white, South African Jewish man who fought apartheid and advised Hamas. Ronnie Kasrils tells us his story.