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WASHINGTON – President Trump launched a volley of criticism against the retired Navy SEAL admiral who led the Osama bin Laden raid, calling him a "Hillary-backer" and suggesting he should have caught the terrorist lead...

Senate Republicans, still furious over Democrats' smearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, have been barreling ahead and confirming President Trump's judicial nominees at a historically fast pace. With 84 of hi...

Two indicted GOP congressmen headed back to Washington last week after winning re-election — and their colleagues were none too happy about it. In a pointed slap at upstate New York Rep. Chris Collins and California Re...

In the incinerated remains of Paradise, the president suggested that forest management was a "very big problem" in California's wildfire crisis.

Championing the cause of the poor, Pope Francis on Sunday lamented that "the wealthy few" enjoy what, "in justice, belongs to all" and said Christians cannot remain indifferent to the …

The number of people missing after California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire jumped on Saturday to 1,276, despite authorities locating hundreds of people who scattered when the Camp Fire tore through the mount...

A California family narrowly survived two back-to-back calamities -- losing their home to wildfire in Malibu the day after the Borderline shooting in Thousand Oaks nearly claimed one of their lives. Carmen Edman told the...

It was the most expensive midterm election in history and these donors dug the deepest to sway it. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were the top donors, contributing $113 million, according to a list ...

Junior British Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC on Sunday that toppling Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party would be a futile distraction.

Trump acknowledges Californians suffering from twin tragedies, devastating wildfires and a mass shooting at a bar

In Madagascar, two former heads of state qualified for the second round of the presidential election, to be held on Dec. 19. Andry Rajoelina, president of the transitional period of …

Pro-cop group Blue Lives Matter is petitioning Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to overturn a "disgraceful" Manhattan community board decision not to honor the first NYPD officer killed in the Iraq War with a street renami...

One person was accidentally killed and more than 200 injured in large-scale protests against higher fuel taxes in France on Saturday. An estimated 250,000 people, many wearing yellow safety vests, turned out in about 2,0...

Romanian prosecutors are investigating whether a painting by Pablo Picasso that was snatched from a museum in the Netherlands six years ago has turned up in Romania. Four Romanians were …

The standoff left the gathering of 21 nations in Papua New Guinea without a joint statement to close the event for the first time in its history.

There is good news and bad news for travelers who haven't been on a plane since last holiday season.        

Environmentalists say building a hydroelectric dam is comparable to cutting down a tropical rainforest.

Rains pound central Khanh Hoa province as tropical depression Toraji blows in from the South China Sea.

The killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have taken his dismembered body out of Turkey in luggage, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying by broadcaster CNN Turk on Sunday.

President Donald Trump dismissed retired Adm. William McRaven, the overseer of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, as a "Hillary Clinton backer" and criticized the military for having not killed bin Laden sooner d...

Rep. Adam Schiff said House Democrats will challenge President Trump’s naming Matthew Whitaker acting Attorney General because the appointment is unconstitutional and he poses a threat to the special counsel’s Russia...

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