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Shooting gang-related
Clubgoers screamed and scrambled for cover as dozens of gunshots rang out during a rap concert in downtown Little Rock early Saturday, leaving 28 people injured...
Obama pushes tolerance
Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about...
25 people shot at nightclub
Police say 25 people were shot after gunfire rang out Saturday at a rap show at a downtown Little Rock nightclub, prompting pleas from top leaders to curb the...
Leaders bid farewell to Kohl
Current and past world leaders gathered Saturday to bid farewell to the late Helmut Kohl, recalling the former German chancellor as a man who was instrumental...
Bear crashes into bedroom
A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear it wasn't a human intruder or his sisters playing a trick...
6.0 quake rocks Ecuador
A strong earthquake struck off Ecuador's coast Friday evening, sending people running into the streets of the country's major cities. Authorities said...
Elephant in the backyard
The pachyderm was a startling sight for residents of one small Wisconsin neighbourhood. A full-grown elephant sauntered through Baraboo early Friday morning on...
Hospital shooter dead
UPDATE: 1:25 p.m. A man pulled a rifle from under his white lab coat and opened fire inside a Bronx hospital Friday, killing at least one person and wounding...
Grizzly protections lifted
At least three different legal challenges were launched Friday against the U.S. government's decision to lift protections for grizzly bears in the...
Refugees returning home
The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that nearly a half-million people who were displaced within Syria due to its civil war have returned to their homes,...
Mop-up operations in Mosul
Iraqi troops were clearing up a key neighbourhood in Mosul on Friday, commanders said, a day after making significant gains against Islamic State militants in...
Puerto Rico is crumbling
Stained glass windows from the 16th century are broken. Porch railings from the 1700s are missing. Brick walls crumble inside the hall where Spain ceded Puerto...
'Morning Joe' hosts fire back
"Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and...
Sarin used in deadly attack
An investigation by the international chemical weapons watchdog confirmed that sarin nerve gas was used in a deadly April 4 attack on a Syrian town, but a...
Evacuees start going home
Authorities expect to allow more evacuated residents to go home and to reopen a major route through an Arizona community that barely escaped destruction when a...
Hitler house seizure upheld
Austria's highest court on Friday ruled the government was within its rights to seize the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 after its...
New travel ban takes effect
A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at...
Trump mocks TV host
President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the brains, looks and temperament of a female cable television host whose show he says he has stopped watching. His...
New visa rules hit Muslims
The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a "close"...
Trump rakes in $10M
President Donald Trump was whisked a few blocks from the White House to the Trump hotel on Wednesday night for his first re-election fundraiser, where he raised...
Hunt for helicopter attacker
Oscar Perez is a cop, pilot, action movie star and dog trainer. He's now also a fugitive, accused of strafing two key Venezuelan government buildings from a...
Assault on her unborn child
A Pennsylvania woman who overdosed on heroin while pregnant and had to undergo a cesarean section is being charged with assault on her unborn child, authorities...
Train evac over bomb threat
Polish media are reporting that authorities have stopped a train travelling from Warsaw to Berlin and evacuated its passengers after receiving a bomb threat....
Sons to visit Diana's grave
Prince William, his wife, Kate, and Prince Harry will attend a private service at the late Princess Diana's grave on what would have been her 56th birthday....
Monument lasts one day
Officials say Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was destroyed by someone driving a vehicle into it less than 24 hours after the monument was placed on...
Wind fans Utah wildfire
Firefighters are bracing for more high winds Wednesday as they try to slow a southern Utah wildfire that has burned 13 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500...
Cluster bombs kill 15
A cluster bomb attack on an Islamic State-held village in eastern Syria killed at least 15 people on Wednesday, activists said, the latest in a series of...
20 years of Chinese rule
Hong Kong is planning a big party as it marks 20 years under Chinese rule. But many people in the former British colony are not in the mood to celebrate....
GOP shelves health bill
Senate GOP leaders abruptly shelved their long-sought health care overhaul Tuesday, asserting they can still salvage it but raising new doubts about whether...
Cyber assault crippling
A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of...
Judge in the crosshairs
Activists seeking to recall a judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman say...
Helicopter attacks court
President Nicolas Maduro said a police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court on Tuesday in a confusing incident that he called a thwarted...
More logging was needed
Insisting that logging could have cleaned up dead, bug-infested trees that are fueling a Utah wildfire, a Republican state lawmaker blamed federal mismanagement...
U.S. keeping eye on Syria
The Trump administration said Tuesday it has detected "active preparations" by Syria for a chemical attack and threatened to retaliate — warning...
Utah wildfire a monster
The nation's largest wildfire has forced more than 1,500 people from their homes and cabins in a southern Utah mountain area home to a ski town and popular...
Grenfell fallout widens
Britain's prime minister said Tuesday there must be a "major national investigation" of potentially flammable cladding on highrise towers, while a...
Queen to get a raise
Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive an increase in the official funding she receives each year. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday the "sovereign grant"...
Second landslide hits China
A second landslide struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave...
Cosby circus moves to Cali
The stage for Bill Cosby's next legal challenge shifts to California with a hearing scheduled Tuesday to set a trial date in a lawsuit accusing him of...
Modi full of hugs for Trump
President Donald Trump should have been ready as he met with India's prime minister, an unabashed hugger. Smiling widely at a news conference Monday during...
Century-old letter in mail
A mail carrier in Lincoln, Neb., faced a difficult task earlier this month when he found a letter sent more than 100 years ago in his pile. The letter with a...
US Navy bribery scandal
While he was stationed in Singapore, a U.S. Navy commander ate suckling pigs worth $400 apiece, attended a Gucci fashion show with his wife and enjoyed the...
Spike in bear maulings
Two more Alaskans were mauled by bears over the weekend, bringing the number of bear attacks in the state to four in less than a week, including two fatalities....
'Not quite warp speed'
Police say a motorcycle officer who stopped a driver for speeding on a suburban highway north of Atlanta had an 'extraterrestrial encounter' —...
Cdn makes palace history
A Canadian captain made history Monday by becoming the first female infantry officer to lead the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London....
Travel ban partly reinstated
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for...
Guilty in Baby Doe killing
A man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the death of a two-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shores of...
Trump eager to meet Putin
President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational...
Fires rage in Utah, Calif.
Better weather conditions have limited the growth of a wildfire in Utah that has prompted the evacuation of 1,500 people from hundreds of homes and cabins,...
Snowmelt forces evacuation
Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along a river in California, the result of the state's huge...
Hurricane off Mexico coast
Hurricane Dora has formed in the Pacific off Mexico's southwestern coast. The hurricane's maximum sustained winds early Monday are near 80 mph (129 kph)...
Irish prop up UK Tories
The leader of a Northern Ireland-based party struck a 1.5 billion pound ($1.9 billion) deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives on...
What stinks in Greece?
With a heat wave expected later this week, Greece's government Monday is urging striking garbage collectors to return to work after a 10-day protest has...
Deadly tour boat sinking
A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, leaving at least six...
Turkish cops stop Pride
Turkish police stopped activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights from gathering in large numbers for an LGBT pride event in Istanbul on...
China slide, many missing
Rescuers recovered 10 bodies and were still searching for 93 missing people on Sunday, a day after a massive landslide buried a picturesque mountain village in...
Tanker blast kills over 150
Alerted by an announcement over a mosque's loudspeaker that an overturned tanker truck had sprung a leak, scores of villagers raced to the scene with fuel...
Spain wildfire evacuation
A forest fire in southern Spain forced the evacuation of at least 1,000 people and is threatening a national park famous for its biodiversity and endangered...
Harry 'wanted out'
Prince Harry says he once "wanted out" of the British royal family. In an interview published in the Mail on Sunday, the prince said the time he spent...
All tested cladding failed
Britain's government urged local officials across the country Sunday to urgently submit samples of tower block cladding after tests found that all samples...
Learning to live with terror
The jihadis' targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London...
34 towers have problem
Britain's fire-safety crisis expanded substantially Saturday as authorities said 34 highrise apartment blocks across the country had cladding that failed...
Human rights violations
Yemen's internationally-recognized government on Saturday ordered the creation of a committee to investigate allegations of human rights violations,...
Cyberattack on parliament
British officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to access...
Not a social butterfly
Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly. Not that she...