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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A hero of a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed at least 32 people was buried on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of weeping mourn...

PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivors and family members in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere can now apply for compensation from a $60 million fund for those...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man who killed three people during a shooting rampage on the streets of Colorado Springs gave no indication he was ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Myers and his wife are proud new parents yet again. A spokeswoman for Myers said that Kelly Myers gave birth Monday to their d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day 2015 is Tuesday, which means we're a year away from the big Election Day to come — the one with the next president on t...

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...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The longtime home of Johnny Mathis in the Hollywood Hills was damaged in a fire on Monday. The 80-year-old singer had just flown ba...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jimmy Carter resumed his role as Habitat for Humanity's most prominent booster on Monday, donning a white hard hat and a worn le...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thomas Toivi Blatt, who was among a small number of Jews to survive a mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in 1943 an...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweeteners that boils down to a mix o...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Leading actor Daniel Craig waxed poetic about the apocalyptic opening scenes in the James Bond flick "Spectre," as the film prepare...

LONDON (AP) — Glenn Close is getting ready to reprise her starring role as silent screen diva Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard" — by taking to the t...

BEIRUT (AP) — Suspected Russian warplanes bombed the outskirts of Islamic State-held Palmyra on Monday, sending smoke rising out of an area that inclu...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Over a seven-decade career in politics, Shimon Peres has helped guide Israel through wars and existential threats. But now, with the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian airline that operated the plane that crashed in Egypt on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board, has a spotty safety reco...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old man in northern Israel before being shot by officers, police said Monday just hours a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared troubled Monday by the actions of a Georgia prosecutor in disqualifying all the black prospective jurors ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Josh "The Fat Jew" Ostrovsky and his upright ponytail have leaped off his racy Instagram account onto the pages of a new book, "Money ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Three Romanian nightclubs on Monday acknowledged they had been reckless and failed to respect safety standards, apologizing ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Spanish priest and an Italian laywoman who had served on a financial reform commission set up by Pope Francis have been arrested...