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MINNEAPOLIS -- Women’s rights advocates said they were shocked when a federal judge in Michigan ruled this week that a law protecting girls from genital mutilation was unconstitutional. They called his decision a serio...

Officials provided an update on the number of missing and killed individuals in California's deadliest wildfire.        

TIJUANA, Mexico -- The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and said Friday he was asking the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants, most ...

As a forensic archaeologist, Israel Ticas has solved more than 500 homicide and missing persons cases.

The 1915 painting "Artillerymen" depicts a group of nude soldiers in a shower -- a powerful statement on the dehumanization of war. And the story behind the painting also speaks to a shocking racket that still plagues ma...

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to rule on President Trump's policy restricting military service by transgender people. If granted, the request would bypass challenges in lower courts which, so...

The United Nations Security Council has granted a sanctions exemption for a joint Korean rail project, South Korea announced Saturday. North and South Korea plan to work together to survey sections of railroad tracks in ...

An 11th-hour deal on Saturday to answer Spanish demands for a big say on Gibraltar after Britain leaves the EU has salvaged an EU summit which will now go ahead as planned on Sunday to deliver a Brexit accord.

Major airport hubs, including Chicago, face possible travel delays from snow, blizzard-like conditions.        

Taiwan Premier William Lai said on Saturday he had offered his resignation to the president, after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party was trounced in mayoral elections.

The U.S. military said Saturday that a service member has been killed in Afghanistan, while in a separate incident two Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter failed to land properly.

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe is no longer able to walk as his health declines, his successor says. President Emmerson Mnangagwa told ruling party supporters at a rally on Saturday …

MUMBAI – Auction house Sotheby's has sent its top India executive on a leave of absence pending a probe into anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct. Gaurav Bhatia, the managing director of Sotheby's India, has agre...

Officials in San Francisco say a ferry boat carrying more than 50 people crashed into a dock Friday, and two people aboard sustained minor injuries. Video shows the ferry approaching and then slamming into a concrete str...

Police said Saturday that they have mapped the area of a remote Indian island where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary after allegedly …

The United States has entered its holiday shopping season and high consumer confidence and low unemployment are driving up wages for seasonal workers.

EU summit chair Donald Tusk said on Saturday that a Brexit summit on Sunday which had been in doubt over Spanish concerns on Gibraltar was now closer to going ahead as planned after he spoke to the Spanish prime minister...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots and among the first black women in the U.S. Coast Guard, has died. She was 103. Hooker was 6 years old when one of the worst race rio...

Turkey's main nationalist party has announced it will support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party in three major cities in the upcoming local elections. The pledge from the Nationalist Movement Party's …

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan police have identified three suspects in the kidnapping of an Italian woman and are offering a reward of $9,750 for information leading to their arrest. There has been no claim of responsibility ...

As the U.S. reportedly closes in on Julian Assange, a look back at WikiLeaks' biggest stories.

Taiwanese began voting in midterm local elections Saturday seen as a referendum on the independence-leaning administration of President Tsai Ing-wen, amid growing pressure from the island's powerful rival China. The …