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Trump at Royal Wedding?
President Donald Trump says Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle, look like a "lovely couple" and he doesn't...
Alleged sex assaulter resigns
Casino mogul Steve Wynn resigned Saturday as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Wynn has...
Massacre at party
Police say gunmen barged into a party and shot dead "a large number of people" in northeastern Brazil. A police officer at the homicide division in...
Balloons nearly crash plane
British investigators say a bundle of large party balloons almost caused a collision with a business jet shortly after take-off from London City Airport....
Holocaust remembered
Elderly survivors were gathering Saturday at the former Auschwitz death camp and political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a...
95 killed, 158 wounded
A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded 158 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban in the Afghan capital Kabul,...
Cannibal kills, eats wife...
UPDATE: 1:05 p.m. Nutritionist Magdalena Aguilar Romero, 25, disappeared in the Mexican city of Taxco, after going to pick up her two children from Cesar Gomez...
Shoppers brawl over Nutella
Brawls have broken out in French supermarkets as shoppers scramble to get their hands on discounted jars of chocolate and hazelnut spread. Chaotic scenes were...
Tons of beads down drain
Let the good times roll — just not into New Orleans' storm drains. That's the plea from city officials. Local news outlets report cleaning crews...
Mueller investigation vast
More than 20 White House employees have given interviews to the special counsel in his probe of possible obstruction of justice and Trump campaign ties to...
Weinstein woes continue
A former personal assistant for Harvey Weinstein alleges she was forced to undertake such tasks as cleaning up after his sexual encounters and taking dictation...
Warren Miller dead at 93
Warren Miller, the legendary outdoor filmmaker who for decades made homages to downhill skiing that he narrated with his own humorous style, has died. He was...
New steroid vetting system
New evidence is being used to vet Russian athletes ahead of next month's Pyeongchang Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. The IOC said...
Stripper pole, coffin anyone?
Looking for stripper poles, a coffin with cherry red lining and a velociraptor? You might want to check out the upcoming auction of gaudy items that decorated...
Trump will talk to Mueller
President Donald Trump declared late Wednesday he's "looking forward" to being questioned — under oath — in the special counsel's...
Captive kids share slowly
The California children who authorities say were tortured by their parents and so malnourished that their growth was stunted are slowly providing valuable...
Pope denounces 'fake news'
Pope Francis is denouncing "fake news" as evil and is urging journalists to make it their mission to search for the truth. After a week in which...
Nassar gets 40 to 175 years
The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment was sentenced Wednesday to...
Scientists clone monkeys
For the first time, researchers have used the cloning method that produced Dolly the sheep to create two healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step...
Tide Pod challenge fight
Procter & Gamble says it's working to stop the "Tide Pod challenge," a social media-fueled trend in which teenagers eat single-load laundry...
Militants attack, killing 3
Militants stormed the offices of Save the Children in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two security guards and a civilian, and triggering a shootout...
Ursula K. Le Guin, gone
Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88....
Sports double whammy
Comcast's NBC is airing both the Super Bowl and the Olympics in February, a double-whammy sports extravaganza that the company expects to yield $1.4 billion...
First U.S. safe injection site?
Philadelphia wants to become the first U.S. city to allow supervised drug injection sites as a way to combat the opioid epidemic, officials announced Tuesday,...
'You only hurt me'
A former elite gymnast said Tuesday that a sports doctor who treated Olympic athletes overlooked what turned out to be a broken leg while he molested her in the...
Car bomb kills at least 27
Libyan authorities say twin car bombs have exploded as people left a mosque in a residential area of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing 27 and...
Five bodies pulled from rig
Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier. Pittsburg...
2 dead in school shooting
A 15-year-old student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural...
Uber driver, illegal, charged
A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and...
Tourists shun U.S.
Despite terrorist attacks and catastrophic weather events, world tourism saw record numbers in 2017. International tourist arrivals grew by a remarkable 7 per...
Sessions getting grilled
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been interviewed in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior said...
Skiers injured by eruption
Twelve people, including eight soldiers, skiing on the slopes of a volcano near a famous hot spring resort in central Japan were injured Tuesday by flying rocks...
Neil Diamond quits touring
Neil Diamond is retiring from touring after he says he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Days shy of his 77th birthday, the rock legend is cancelling...
Puerto Rico still in the dark
Puerto Rico's governor announced Monday that he is moving to privatize the U.S. territory's public power company after its slow, troubled recovery from...
US embassy move in 2019
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence told Israeli lawmakers Monday that the U.S. would put plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem on a fast track, drawing angry...
5 missing in rig explosion
Five people are missing after a fiery explosion ripped through an eastern Oklahoma drilling rig Monday morning, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and...
Trump weighs solar tariffs
Solar energy is booming in the United States, but companies riding the wave fear that President Donald Trump could undercut them this week if he decides to...
Violent volcanic explosion
The Philippines' most active volcano ejected a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke in a thunderous explosion Monday, sending thousands of villagers...
Little Eugenie, engaged
It will be a busy year for royal weddings: Princess Eugenie is engaged to be married later this year, several months after her cousin Prince Harry's...
Jackson fixes WWI film
"The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson is transforming grainy black-and-white footage of World War I into 3-D colour for a new film....
Doughnut eater charged
A North Carolina man who made headlines when he was caught for break-ins after winning a doughnut-eating contest has been arrested again. And this time he's...
Afghan forces end siege
Security forces said Sunday they had killed the last of six Taliban militants to end an overnight siege at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel that left at least...
18 dead in hotel attack
A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan's capital killed at least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, and pinned security forces down...
Forced to close their doors
Symbols of American promise have turned into emblems of American dysfunction amid a dispute in Congress over spending and immigration that has forced scores of...