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WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday his committee will look into a report the U.S. spied on the Israeli ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian beauty queen who was briefly crowned Miss Universe is making the best of what she calls a humiliating situation....

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With less than 48 hours left in 2015, Turkey on Wednesday became the latest country to announce the foiling of a holiday attack ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The latest in the case of a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an "affl...

NEW YORK (AP) — Uniformed police and U.S. military service officers lined the streets of Manhattan on Wednesday for the funeral for a U.S. soldier and...

BEIRUT (AP) — A program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians was shut down on Wednesday, social media sit...

VISE, Belgium (AP) — Throughout history, borders have caused unfathomable bloodshed, ageless feuds and decades-old legal disputes, which makes plans f...

LONDON (AP) — Heavy rains and gusty winds are causing more problems for residents in large swaths of Britain. Officials say 5,500 homes in Scotland lo...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Thousands in Central African Republic's capital voted Wednesday in national elections with hope that a new pre...

BERLIN, N.H. (AP) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki has ended his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, with just over a month to go...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California commission was overreaching when it banned the breeding of captive killer whales at a $100 million planned exhibit at Sa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's been a record-breaking, $11 billion year at the movies. Box-office tracker Rentrak said Tuesday that the industry has already ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say former "Glee" star Mark Salling has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of possessing child pornography....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A small plane clipped a downtown Anchorage office building and then slammed into a nearby commercial building early Tuesday, ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The two police officers cleared Monday of criminal charges in the November 2014 fatal shooting of Tamir Rice reacted based on what th...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea was declared Ebola-free on Tuesday, a huge step in the fight against the world's largest Ebola epidemic. The West Africa...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman and her son, a teen known for invoking an "affluenza" defense after a deadly drunken driving wreck, held a sort...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who claimed to be on the cusp of a historic peace deal with the Palestinians just a few years ago,...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities announced Tuesday they have arrested two men and seized military-type uniforms and Islamic State group propaganda ...