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Sri Lanka's president said he dissolved Parliament and called elections to avoid possible violence

A video shows Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row"

Frank Sinatra may be best remembered for his velvety voice, booze-fueled partying and associations with some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. But he was also a romantic husband to Barbara, his wife of 22 years, ...

Several fires burning in Southern and Northern California have killed at least 31 people and destroyed about 7,000 buildings. These wind-driven fires have burned 196,000 acres, Chief Scott Jalbert of the California Depar...

A firefighter battling the devastating blazes ripping through California was caught on video saving an American flag and draping it over the mailbox of a gutted home. The touching footage shared by CBS News shows the fir...

When she was called on, Berklee College of Music student Sabrina Bondar, 19, could only muster, "Dude, what the [expletive]?"

A fire chief says drought, rain and a new dry spell is a "recipe for destruction."

Timelapse video shows the destructive Woolsey Fire spreading into Malibu as seen from Venice Beach, about 20 miles away.

The man at the center of the scandal at the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature arrived Monday at a Swedish appeals court in handcuffs, hoping his rape …

Hania Aguilar was kidnapped outside her home on the morning of Nov. 5.

Italian city hosts representatives of Libya's various factions and other countries to find a political settlement.

A defense lawyer says a journalist who was taken away by unidentified security forces over the weekend has been charged with possessing "provocative literature." Nasrullah Khan, a subeditor for a …

A professor at a community college in Connecticut has been placed on paid administrative leave after giving a Nazi salute during a meeting earlier this month, university officials said. Charles Meyrick, an assistant prof...

Saudi leaders had discussed assassinating enemies long before a journalist was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, The New York Times reports.        

Six days after polls closed in the 2018 midterm elections, some major races remain undecided as anxious politicians express concern about the delay.        

British Prime Minister Theresa May says the West's response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy has seriously hurt Russia's intelligence capability. May's office says she'll urge countries "to …

A British couple with neo-Nazi views who named their son after Adolf Hitler was convicted Monday of membership in an outlawed far-right group. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court in …

Florida has ordered statewide recounts for Senate and gubernatorial races amid alleged ballot fraud in Broward County.        

Scores of dilapidated wooden boats believed to be from North Korea have washed ashore in northern Japan in a seasonal influx. The coast guard said Monday that 95 rickety boats, …

The death toll from three car bombs detonated near a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia has risen to 52 people, hospital officials told CNN Monday.

Romania's president says his country is not ready to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan.1 and called for the government to step down. President Klaus …

Jordanian search teams have found the body of a five-year-old girl, bringing the death toll from last week's flash floods in the kingdom to 13. The state news agency Petra …