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In the year of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearing set off outrage in the nation's capital.

A case brought by Democrats in Congress could give them access to a wide array of financial documents from the president and the Trump Organization.

Authorities in Maine have found the body of a skydiving instructor who became separated from his student during a tandem jump. Officials say 41-year-old Brett Bickford of Rochester, New Hampshire, and his student partici...

The powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia's central Sulawesi has claimed many victims, a disaster official said Saturday, as rescuers raced to reach the region and an AP reporter saw numerous bodies in a har...

The bureau, in a relatively limited inquiry, will rely on witnesses to voluntarily answer questions or hand over documents.

Drawing cartoons or producing writing that "humiliates" a government official is now a criminal offense in Rwanda, a new law says. Journalists say the law that took effect on Thursday …

The New York Times fact-checked his testimony, and what emerges is the image of a skilled lawyer who dissembled when pressed on certain accusations.

The last time the death penalty was carried out in a New York federal case was in 1953.

Three Massachusetts residents have been sentenced to state prison for keeping a 16-year-old girl in a basement that a police officer described as a "torture chamber."

Another state, another campaign rally for President Donald Trump _ this time in West Virginia, to help support GOP candidates, including Senate nominee Patrick Morrisey, who's challenging the Democratic incumbent, Joe Ma...

Even in attractive, fast-growing cities like Denver, New York and Seattle, selling prices are rising more slowly and asking prices are being slashed.

Both are places of international concern that spill trouble beyond their borders

Footage is likely meant as a show of strength amid new U.S. sanctions on Iran

Fighting between separatists and government forces, along with concerns its stadiums won't be ready, have left Cameroon facing the possibility Saturday of being stripped of its hosting of next year's African Cup of Natio...

SEATTLE -- A woman has accused a Washington state lawmaker of raping her 11 years ago, saying she was inspired to speak out as she watched the televised allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The lawm...

Iran's state TV has broadcast footage purporting to show a close encounter between the Revolutionary Guard's navy and the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the …

DENVER -- Evidence against an Uber driver charged with shooting a passenger shows the driver was outside the car when he fired a handgun 10 times, striking the passenger inside six times, prosecutors said Friday. Denver ...

Palestine files complaint with UN's International Court of Justice to return US embassy to Tel Aviv.

Pope Francis is asking for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are "attacks by the devil," in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy

Thousands of people in Kosovo are protesting their president's willingness to include a possible territory swap with Serbia in the ongoing negotiations to normalize relations between the two countries. Supporters …

HELENA, Mont. -- The Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church's national organization ordered Montana clergy members not to report her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation...

Malaysia's prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim has kicked off his campaign for a by-election next month but faces a multi-cornered fight in his bid to return to active politics. The by-election …