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PARIS (AP) — Taxi drivers in France went on strike Thursday, smashing car windows, setting tires on fire and blocking traffic to express their displea...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Macnee, star of the 1960s TV series "The Avengers," has died. He was 93. His son Rupert said in a statement that Patrick Ma...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison guard charged in connection with the maximum-security prison escape of two killers admitted to providing th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, reject...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The bitter standoff between Greece and its international creditors was extended into the weekend, just days before Athens has to meet ...

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A couple who says they were scared away from their new $1.4 million home because of creepy letters from a stalker has sued the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For his next trick, Shigeru Miyamoto is working in reality, not virtual reality. While the famed Japanese creator of "Mario Bros." ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Thursday blocked the state's first-in-the-nation ban on an abortion procedure that opponents describe as dismemb...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Attorneys for Colorado theater shooter James Holmes began presenting their case Thursday, hoping to show he was legally insan...

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — An Iraqi pilot who has been training in the United States for four years was flying an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft that crashe...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Police officers stood guard and checked bags as hundreds of people filed into a church Thursday for the first funeral for vict...

Wildfires are charging through several dry Western states, including a blaze in California that showed new life after burning for a week and forced so...

COLONY GLACIER, Alaska (AP) — Scientists and volunteers tethered in safety gear and ice cleats painstakingly scoured the frozen dirt and ice to see if...

HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists hoping to build a telescope that will allow them to see 13 billion light years away, offering a look into the early years o...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As thousands of gallons of crude oil from a ruptured pipeline spread along the California coast, its operator wasn't able to contac...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of senior Colombian army officers implicated in the killing of 3,000 civilians falsely claimed to be rebels a decade ag...

Following a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of officials across the country is calling for the removal of C...

Wildfires are sweeping through several dry Western states, including a massive blaze burning out of control in Northern California. A look at the late...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate battle flag was still flying high atop a 30-foot pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Wednesday as lawm...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Wednesday to be formally sentenced to death and listened as a procession of v...