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Stars join gun-reform rally
Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at nationwide gun-reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors'...
'He fell as a hero'
UPDATE: 2:35 p.m. The French police officer who swapped places with a female supermarket employee being held hostage had already received a lifetime of...
Rallying for gun control
In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. against gun violence Saturday,...
China will defend interests
China's newly appointed economic czar told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that Beijing is ready to defend its interests after President...
Thousands of rebels flee
Some 7,000 members of a rebel group and their relatives were preparing to leave eastern Ghouta to opposition-held areas north of the country Saturday as part of...
Transgender troops banned
President Donald Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under "limited...
Mister Rogers gets stamp
It was a beautiful day to honour Mister Rogers with a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service on Friday released a stamp featuring Fred Rogers, the gentle TV...
Trump's new security head
Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, President Donald Trump said he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the...
Condo blaze kills at least 13
Residents startled awake by loud noise and smoke signalled for help with lit mobile phones and crawled onto cranes from their balconies to escape a fire Friday...
Teen march goes worldwide
They can't buy a beer or rent a car and most aren't even old enough to vote, yet the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have spearheaded...
T-Rex bursts into flames
The co-owner of a dinosaur-themed park in southern Colorado thinks an electrical malfunction caused a life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex to burst into...
Royal wedding memorabilia
Fans of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can start building their collections of royal wedding memorabilia now. The approved commemorative china marking the...
Stranded whales die
More than 150 whales have become stranded in Hamelin Bay in western Australia, and only 15 of them were still alive on Friday, authorities said. The mammals are...
2 dead in terror attack
UPDATE 5:35 a.m. French police say 2 killed, about a dozen wounded in supermarket hostage-taking in southern France. ORIGINAL 5:28 a.m. An armed man took...
Playboy model apologizes
A former Playboy model apologized to first lady Melania Trump for a 10-month affair she claims she had with President Donald Trump that started with him...
Facebook's widening crisis
Facebook is facing the most serious crisis in its 14-year history as it deals with fallout from a major leak of user data to political consultants associated...
Firefighter dies on movie set
A raging fire gutted an unoccupied residential building in Harlem being used as a film set and left a New York City firefighter dead. The blaze broke out on the...
Phasing out fish farms
Washington state is phasing out marine farming of Atlantic salmon and other non-native fish by 2022. Net pens growing Atlantic salmon in state waters have...
Cat's back, 14 years later
A Florida man has been reunited with a cat he lost 14 years ago. TCPalm.com reports Perry Martin of Fort Pierce said he had assumed his orange tabby named...
US OK's $1.3T budget
The House easily approved a bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that pours huge sums into Pentagon programs and domestic initiatives ranging from...
Royal wedding invites sent
Time to check that mailbox. Kensington Palace said Thursday that invitations for the wedding between Prince Harry and his American fiancée Meghan Markle...
Trump, Biden smackdown?
U.S. President Donald Trump and former vice-president Joe Biden are in a rhetorical smackdown over who could clean the other's clock in a brawl. Trump,...
Dead man can get licence
Days after one Romanian court told a man he was officially dead despite evidence to the contrary, another court has declared that a man who was truly dead could...
6 dead in chem explosion
An explosion rocked a chemical factory Thursday in the Czech Republic, killing six people and injuring two others, officials said. Unipetrol, a Czech oil...
124 million go hungry
A United Nations-led report says 124 million people last year suffered such acute hunger that their lives were at risk, up from 108 million in 2016. The...
Self-drive under scrutiny
Video of a deadly self-driving vehicle crash in suburban Phoenix shows a pedestrian walking from a darkened area onto a street just moments before an Uber SUV...
Shooter was lovesick teen
Tuesday's school shooting in southern Maryland that left the shooter dead and two students wounded increasingly appears to be the action of a lovesick...
Record rains, worst to come
Although the first wave of a worrisome Pacific storm hasn't caused any major problems in California, forecasters say the worst is still to come, leaving...
Austin bomber's motive?
A 25-minute cellphone video left behind by the bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for weeks details the differences among the weapons he built and...
Nor'easter keeps moving
The latest nor'easter lost some punch as it rolled into New England on Thursday, as millions of others in the Northeast dug out from the storm that dumped...
Closer look at bomber
UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. As a SWAT team closed in, the suspected bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for three weeks used one of his own devices to blow...
Smoking baby mom arrest
A video of an infant smoking a cigar set off outrage on social media that helped North Carolina authorities identify and arrest the mother. A version of the...
Zuckerberg admits mistakes
The latest on the alleged use of Facebook data to influence the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is...
Market attack kills 38
The death toll from an insurgent mortar assault on a market in Damascus has risen to 38, state media said Wednesday, making it one of the deadliest attacks in...
Shooting response praised
In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed....
Senators safeguard ballots
Senators are expected to press Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the department's efforts to secure state election systems as the Senate...
'I'll be back'- in politics
The year was 1990 and Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson claimed his first term as California governor, replacing another Republican, George Deukmejian. Two years...
Vatican media chief resigns
The head of the Vatican's communications department resigned Wednesday over a scandal about a letter from the retired pope that he mischaracterized in...
Charles snubs Aussies
Prince Charles has declined a cheeky invitation to explain why he, and not an Australian, should become the nation's next head of state, an advocate for...
USS Juneau wreck found
The discovery of the USS Juneau in the depths of the South Pacific has provided some closure to people with connections to the ship, which was blown apart...
Bridge doomed from start
Construction of the pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed six people in the Miami area was behind schedule and millions over budget, in part because of a...
School shooter dies
UPDATE: 11 a.m. A teenager with a handgun shot two classmates inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with...
Ex-president in custody
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation into allegations he received millions of euros in illegal...
Refugees flood into Brazil
Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela's unrelenting political and economic crisis are trying their luck in Brazil — a...
1 million students to march
Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot last month expect more than one million participants in upcoming marches in Washington...
FedEx explosion in Austin
UPDATE 7:35 a.m. A package bomb that authorities believe is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings exploded early Tuesday inside of a FedEx distribution...
Cult members to be hanged
Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. But when is...
Cold war coming?
The Kremlin spokesman says it's no big deal that U.S. President Donald Trump didn't congratulate Vladimir Putin on his re-election as president. Putin...
No driver, not so fast
A fatal pedestrian crash involving a self-driving Uber SUV in a Phoenix suburb could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology as automakers and...
Trump wants death penalty
Embracing the tough penalties favoured by global strongmen, President Donald Trump on Monday brandished the death penalty as a fitting punishment for drug...
Last male white rhino dies
The world's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, has died after "age-related complications," researchers announced Tuesday, saying he...
Facebook post outrage
A potential collapse of the minority Norwegian government was averted Tuesday after a senior minister resigned for writing a Facebook post claiming the...
Manson remains cremated
Charles Manson was cremated and his ashes scattered following a brief, private funeral four months after the death of the man who gained worldwide infamy for...
Steven Seagal accused
A woman on Monday said she was a 17-year-old model and aspiring actress when Steven Seagal sexually assaulted her at a supposed casting session at a Beverly...
Self-driving car kills woman
Police in a Phoenix suburb say one of Uber's self-driving vehicles has struck and killed a pedestrian. Police in the city of Tempe said Monday that the...
100-yr-old shipwreck found
The wreckage of a steamer that sank in Lake Erie over a century ago and eluded shipwreck hunters for decades has finally been found off the Ohio shore,...
NBA player's ex pleads
The ex-wife of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright won't face the death penalty if convicted of killing him more than seven years ago in Tennessee. Shelby...
Jim Carrey criticized
Jim Carrey is being criticized on social media for a portrait he painted that is believed to be White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The actor...
Pitbull to speak at UN
Grammy Award-winning rapper Pitbull is heading to the United Nations to discuss the global water crisis on World Water Day. The organization Clean Water Here...
Another explosion in Texas
At least two people were injured in another explosion in Texas' capital Sunday night, after three package bombs detonated earlier this month in other parts...
Whistleblower ties to Grits
The Canadian whistleblower at the centre of an international scandal that allegedly helped the Trump campaign capitalize politically from private Facebook...
Death penalty for dealers
President Donald Trump's plan to combat opioid drug addiction nationwide calls for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including the death penalty where...
Performer dies after falling
A Cirque du Soleil performer has died after falling during a show in Tampa, Fla. The Montreal-based entertainment group said in a statement that aerialist Yann...
Six more years for Putin
Russia's presidential election was tainted Sunday by unprecedented pressure on voters to turn out and incidents of suspected ballot box stuffing — a...