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The Latest on Typhoon Lan (all times local): 11:30 a.m. A powerful typhoon has caused flooding and landslides along the Pacific coast of Japan. Japanese media say two people have …

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from IS by government troops over the weekend, the Syrian government a...

The military is "fiercely protective" of that right, says retired four-star general.

Capt. Gary Rose is being honored for tending to the wounded over four days in the jungles of Laos — a place the Army wasn't even supposed to be.        

The agency has kept three scientists from appearing at an event.

A knife-wielding man burst into a Moscow radio station studio Monday and stabbed a female journalist in the neck, the station said.

Rescue workers have located two more bodies buried by a landslide in a construction site in northern Malaysia, bringing the death toll to 11. Fire and rescue official Mohamad Rizuan Ramli said the body of a Bangladeshi w...

Authorities in Texas released a sketch Sunday afternoon of a young child whose body turned up on a beach in Galveston late last week, as they urged anybody who might recognize his face to step forward. The boy, estimated...

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A Pennsylvania man accused of groping a sleeping woman on a flight pleaded guilty Monday to simple assault on an aircraft. Wei-Ming Shi, 59, reportedly fondled the woman on a flight from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh in August...

The Feb. 9-25 games will go ahead as scheduled.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said there is a place for moderate elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan's government as long as they renounce violence and terrorism and commit to stability

The White House wants tax cuts but can't get on the same page as Congress.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has revealed a secret letter her office received from North Korea asking for help to divert the Trump administration from nuclear war. The letter is believed to be one of several ...

A pine tree has crushed a taxi in Rome, injuring the driver but leaving two passengers uninjured.

Trump says he "spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation"

Japan's defense minister is sounding an alarm on North Korea, saying its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities have grown to what he called an "unprecedented, critical and imminent" level

Tillerson alsooutlined the Trump administration’s new South Asia strategy.        

The convicted terrorist known as the "underwear bomber" -- who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas in 2009 -- says his constitutional rights are being violated at a federal prison in Colorado, where he's al...

The U.S. Air Force is poised to return nuclear-equipped B-52 bombers to ready-to-fly positions on runways at the Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, Defense One reports. The planes used to be a fixture on the runways ...

Egypt's military says it has destroyed eight vehicles loaded with weapons, ammunition and explosives, and killed militants in the western desert, after they crossed borders with neighboring Libya. The air …