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After Hurricane Sandy, homeowners on the devastated shoreline of New Jersey had their houses raised. Photographer Ira Wagner caught the properties at their most precarious

Pyongyang protests usually mark start of Korean war and highlight grievances against 'sworn enemy' North Korea will cancel its annual "anti-US imperialism" rally, part of a growing detente with its longstanding enemy as ...

Former President George H.W. Bush is welcoming a new member of the family: a yellow Labrador retriever who'll be his first service dog

House Republicans are considering crafting stand-alone legislation curbing the separation of migrant families at the border in an effort to quell the fierce blowback created by President Trump's since-reversed policy, GO...

Everyone's seeing Red. Restaurants named "Red Hen" have been receiving threats and nasty Yelp reviews since one kicked out the White House press secretary -- and President Trump fueled the fire Monday with a tirade of hi...

How will Trump's people react to the blowback from trade war? Badly.

The Supreme Court ruled California cannot require clinics that serve pregnant women to provide information about the availability of abortion services in the state.

The blaze, known as the Pawnee Fire, has burned thousands of acres in Lake County, destroying more than 20 structures and forcing hundreds of evacuations.

A Louisiana woman was arrested for allegedly trashing a Chinese restaurant and hitting the owner's vehicle after her food order "was not made properly," police say. According to a police report released Monday, the custo...

GRANGER, Ind. -- Authorities say a 14-year-old boy was fatally injured when a basketball backboard fell on him at his family’s northern Indiana home. St. Joseph County police say Nolan Gerwels was playing Friday evenin...

Police in Long Beach, California, said Monday that a 77-year-old man is suspected of starting a fire at his retirement home, then shooting firefighters when they responded to the call for help. One of the first responder...

Advait Kolarkar has become the youngest artist to exhibit at the ArtExpo fair in New York.

The woman who murdered her French nanny wrote her a bizarre apology letter, as she was jailed for life on Tuesday. Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni were today caged at the Old Bailey, England’s central criminal cour...

At a Beijing supermarket, customers don't need a card to checkout. Instead, a camera scans their faces and matches it to a sales account. After entering a mobile phone number to charge the online account, the transaction...

By Simon Lewis, Zeba Siddiqui, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall

The Latest on Syria developments (all times local): 6 p.m. Syrian state media are reporting that government airstrikes are targeting southeastern parts of southern Daraa province, ahead of a new offensive there.

The two leaders shared an affectionate embrace

Lynch's praise for the president surprised many - but stranger things happen in the maverick director's movies David Lynch is a man who likes to keep his ideas to himself. Ask him about any of his films, or the meaning b...

WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday he could find any child separated from their migrant parents "within seconds." "There is no reason why any parent would not know where their child i...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Brazil for a Latin American trip expected to focus on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Venezuela. Brazilian officials also want to discuss …

Libya's U.N.-backed government based in Tripoli on Tuesday urged the U.N. Security Council to block what it described as "illegal" oil sales by a rival administration based in the country's east.

The ban prevents people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen from entering the US.