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Congress will return to Washington, D.C., this week to confront a series of highly charged partisan issues as a deadline for extending government funding approaches, raising the specter of a December government shutdown....

QUINCY, Mass. -- Two people have been arrested in connection with the assault of a 92-year-old woman who was pushed down and robbed in Massachusetts. Kayla Noel-Brown and Markell Cruz face arraignment Monday in Quincy on...

The Senate Republican tax plan would give substantial tax cuts and benefits to Americans earning more than $100,000 a year, while the nation's poorest would be worse off, according to a report released Sunday by the nonp...

The company founded by Henry Luce said as recently as April that it wasn't planning to sell        

A county judge had ordered the 57-year-old to return to prison Monday

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave a scathing assessment of President Trump in one of multiple interviews for an Esquire story published Sunday. "I don't agree with the way he's conducting his presidency, obviously," McCain...

The Latest on the civil war in Syria (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Syria and its allies have clashed with other nations at the annual conference of member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog, underscoring how p...

A Las Vegas man who survived the country music festival attack that left 58 people dead was killed earlier this month by a hit-and-run driver, leaving his widow reeling "in another dimension." Roy McClellan, 52, was kill...

Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu says a few in South Africa have become very rich while a "very large majority have remained in the bondage of poverty."

President Donald Trump has questioned the authenticity of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in which he bragged about being able to grope women, The New York Times reported over the weekend, despite the fact that Trum...

Amid threats of a missile attack by North Korea on the United States, Hawaii will fire up air raid sirens that haven’t been used since the Cold War. The system, first installed when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941,...

An Indian appeals court has acquitted 35 crewmembers of a private U.S. ship, including six former British soldiers and 10 Indians, who were sentenced last year to five years in …

A month after Spain cracked down on Catalonia's push for independence, an opinion poll shows that less than a quarter of the region's residents would like the secession bid to …

A resurgence of Israel's so-called Sabbath wars leads an ultra-Orthodox minister to quit on his rabbi's orders, putting pressure on others in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet.

Expanding health insurance would provide substantial benefits.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Police say an off-duty officer shot a suspected shoplifter near the food court at a busy Dallas-area shopping mall. Arlington police spokesman Lt. Christopher Cook tells WFAA-TV the incident occurred ...

Antibiotics don't kill it. Cooking doesn't kill it. And comparable diseases have incubated for decades before dementia-like symptoms were recognized.        

Leandra English, the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, filed a lawsuit to block President Trump's nominee from becoming its acting director.

Logan Mott is a good student with no criminal history, lawyer says.

Pope Francis' aim in visiting Myanmar and Bangladesh is to encourage their tiny Catholic communities and bring a message of friendship and peace to some of Asia's most peripheral and …

A United Airlines flight had to be diverted to London after a string of passengers complained about feeling “lightheaded and sick”. The flight was heading to New York after departing from Germany at around 9am today ...

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