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Diplomats from more than two dozen countries were denied access to a Chinese court Monday as detained Canadian Michael Kovrig went on trial in Beijing on espionage charges.

Philippine troops have killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group and rescued four Indonesian hostages held since last year, the military said on Sunday.

The remains of a gold mask are among a huge cache of 3,000-year-old artifacts found at an archaeological site in China's Sichuan province.

A wildfire on the New Mexico-Arizona border forced two native American communities to leave their homes. Norah O'Donnell reports.

The city has been criticized for its enforcement of the curfew in South Beach over the weekend, when the police used pepper balls to try to disperse crowds.

ISIS fighters are using new equipment abandoned by the fleeing Iraq army as the militants captured another city in northern Iraq. The terror group claims to have executed more than 1,700 men in last week's fighting. The ...

A 9-year-old boy vacationing in Miami Beach was reportedly bitten by a shark while swimming in the ocean on Sunday. The youngster's mother told Local 10 News her son in the water for just a few minutes before he was bit....

U.S. military aircraft, including warplanes from the USS Bush, are now flying around the clock surveillance missions over Iraq. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey told Congress Iraq has requested air strikes ag...

Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has issued arrest warrants for two prominent Iraqi political analysts, prompting backlash from activists and some politicians who say it's an attempt to intimidate critics of the governmen...

A former Louisiana priest and two dominatrices were slapped with vandalism charges for having sex atop a church altar in September of last year, a report said. Travis Clark, 37, and the two women were initially charged b...

A number of rioters who stormed the the US Capitol in January could face sedition charges, the federal prosecutor who previously led the investigation into the siege said Sunday. Michael Sherwin told CBS’ “60 Minutes...

Pressed about the possibility of U.S. air strikes in Iraq, White House spokesman Jay Carney says any military action taken by the U.S. must be matched by political reforms on the part of the Iraqis.

More than 200 Palestinians have been arrested since three Israeli teenagers went missing on the West Bank. Alex Ortiz reports on how the search is turning into a full-scale military operation.

Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer was the first reporter to track Ahmed Abu Khattalah down in Benghazi and interview him after the attack on the American diplomatic facility in 2012. Khattalah denied being a part of the att...

President Obama has insisted he would not put boots on the ground in Iraq. But officials say he now believes that a limited number of special forces are needed to develop better intelligence on the Sunni insurgents shoul...

Foreign journalists have not been allowed in Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city, since Islamic militants took control. Holly Williams met with a doctor working in Mosul at a checkpoint outside of the city who fears that I...

Michael Sherwin, the former acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., told CBS News that evidence collected as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot most likely could support sedition charges. "I persona...

Ferial Haffajee, the first female editor of a major newspaper in South Africa, is currently the editor-in-chief of the City Press newspaper. She talks to CBS News correspondent Debora Patta about the impact of the Oscar ...

Former President Donald Trump is coming back to social media -- but this time with his own network, a Trump spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday.

Empires live and die by their illusions. Visions of empowerment can inspire nations to scale the heights of global hegemony. Similarly, however, illusions of omnipotence can send fading empires crashing into oblivion. So...

President Biden has pledged to seek an end to the federal death penalty.

Katherine Diaz, a top surfer in El Salvador who was aiming for the Olympics, was killed by a lightning strike Friday.