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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — In coordinated attacks, gunmen stormed three military installations in Burundi before dawn Friday. At least 15 people were k...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's ruling socialist party is set to rush through a series of appointments before the opposition takes over congress...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barry Schweid, the legendary Associated Press diplomatic correspondent who reported and analyzed events from dozens of countries ove...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, stunning the ruling party and altering the balan...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The growing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional requirement to make elect...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The married couple dubbed the "San Francisco witch killers" seemed locked away for good when each was sentenced to 75 years to li...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — sentenced to death for his admitted role in the deadly 2013 attack — deserves a new trial to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Cleo Pablo married her longtime partner when gay weddings became legal in Arizona and looked forward to the day when her wife ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court for a speedy decision on its plans to shield from deportation millions of immig...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Vintage cars lined the Virginia drag racing track where men and women wearing high-waisted pants and long skirts waited eagerly f...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on the sentencing of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle for sex crimes (all times local): 1 p.m. A judge has sentenced...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twisted cat poetry only Charles Bukowski could have come up with and life lessons from "Little Miss Overshare" are among the holiday s...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on the case against former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle (all times local): 5:30 p.m. One of the child-pornography victim...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in a cl...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional parliament of Catalonia launched a plan Monday to set up a road map for independence from Spain by 2017, defying ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs, California proposed Friday to allow corrections officials to c...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom....

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a ro...