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The top 20 percent of wage earners will pay 87 percent of all federal income taxes in 2018, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. That's up from about 84 percent last year. The increase comes ...

A man was shot and killed in Bedford-Stuyvesant Saturday evening, police said.

Firefighters found an unconscious 67-year-old man on the 50th floor. He was declared dead at Mt. Sinai-Roosevelt Hospital.

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Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investi...

At least 70 people were killed and about 1,000 more injured in what is thought to be a chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma in the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta. The deaths have been reported by multiple activ...

That should help the surging "Dem wave," the California Democrat quipped.

A body was recovered Saturday in the vicinity where an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff last month, killing a family of eight in what authorities suspect may have been an intentional crash. The Mendocino Count...

Trump defended the Environmental Protection Agency head as a fire raged through an apartment in his Trump Tower.

Anti-government activists accused the Syrian government of attacking a rebel-held suburb of Damascus with poison gas, estimating that dozens were killed.

The 48-year-old German man who drove a van into a crowd in the western city of Muenster was well-known to police and had a history of run-ins with the law, German prosecutors said Sunday, adding that they believe he acte...

Kenrick Perry, 72, was inside his unit on White Plains Road near E. 213th St. in Olinville when the blaze broke out, neighbors said.

The president announced a plan to send National Guard troops to the border.

President Trump on Sunday blamed former President Obama for failing to take action against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in the wake of a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people, mostly women and children....

Japan's foreign minister has urged Cambodia to hold free and fair elections but didn't comment on the Cambodian government's actions against its political opponents during talks with the Southeast Asian nation's long-ser...

Amid rising concerns about a possible trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump suggested that Beijing will ease "because it is the right thing to do" and that the economic superpowers can settle the d...

President Trump’s chief economic adviser on Sunday said the White House had to stand up to China because the country has been breaking international laws for decades and stealing technology from American companies. “...

President Trump on Sunday said he and the Chinese leader will “always be friends” and predicted China will open up on trade because “it is the right thing to do.” “President Xi and I will always be friends, no ...

Texas' raid of the Mormon Fundamentalist Yearning for Zion Ranch happened 10 years ago and many of the 437 children, who landed temporarily in state custody, are all grown up.        

President Trump again expressed his displeasure with the FBI, the Department of Justice, and The Washington Post on Twitter Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The president accused the FBI and DOJ, both agencies in his...

MUENSTER, Germany

Twenty-six years after it was destroyed in the Bosnian War, Sarajevo's landmark cable car has resumed service.