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12:30 p.m. President Barack Obama has expressed anger, sadness and heartache at the church shooting that left nine dead in Charleston, South Carolina....

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The jury in the Colorado theater shooting trial will be allowed to hear emotional details from a survivor who was paralyzed a...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine sergeant could be locked up yet again after being convicted a second time of killing an Iraqi civilian nearly a...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An exit poll by Danish broadcaster TV2 shows Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt's governing coalition and the center-rig...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants and painstakingly looked for matches in the vast African contine...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A powerful storm that made landfall in Texas this week trudged slowly northward through the nation's midsection Thursday, cau...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church and then fatally shot nine people was captured without ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The psychiatrist who treated James Holmes before he attacked a Colorado movie theater said she did not have enough evidence t...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge is pressing U.S. officials to explain why it's taken three decades to decide on a proposal to drill for natural...

WATERLOO, Belgium (AP) — To the victor go the spoils: So Waterloo became synonymous with Napoleon's demise, even if the worst of the battle never happ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Calling him "off-the-charts dangerous," authorities said a Phoenix man helped orchestrate a shooting at an anti-Islam event in Texas an...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A large sack of home-made bombs discovered at an abandoned Boko Haram camp exploded, killing 63 people, witnesses said Wednesda...

FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AP) — Greek and Turkish Cypriot politicians on Wednesday pledged to preserve Cyprus' rich cultural heritage after hailing the resto...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Victims' loved ones made their way toward Berkeley from Ireland as investigators Wednesday tried to pinpoint the cause of a ba...

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Hunter Treschl and his cousin were "playing around in the waves" at a North Carolina beach when he felt something bump into hi...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A tiger that broke loose after severe flooding at the Tbilisi Zoo mauled a man to death in the Georgian capital before being s...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's royal family has announced the name of its latest addition, newborn Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf. King Carl XVI Gustaf informe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Miley Cyrus and late-night talk show host Andy Cohen were recognized Tuesday in New York at amfAR's sixth annual Inspiration Gala for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Jeb Bush "slow jammed" the news, told about meeting his wife, offered a guacamole recipe and oddly compared his presidentia...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The woman who resigned as president of the Spokane NAACP after her parents revealed she was white posing as black says there's n...