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PARIS (AP) — A man rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque on Friday in the southeast French city of Valence, but was stopped when a soldi...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest from New Year's Eve in Las Vegas (all times local): 1:30 a.m. Las Vegas police say that as of early Friday morning just 10...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The flower-drenched Rose Parade rolled with few hitches Friday under cloudless blue skies to the delight of hundreds of thousa...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spokeswoman for the family of a man who died when his plane struck two buildings in downtown Anchorage says the crash was a...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Water from a rare, record-setting winter flood was receding in the St. Louis area Friday, allowing major roadways to reopen and offer...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of "a dangerous few" without depending on Congress to pass a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department opened the new year by falling short of a court-ordered goal from last year to have out by now 82 percent of Hi...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion struck the Afghan capital on Friday evening, killing one person and wounding 11 people, officials said. The Tal...

On a New Year's Eve haunted by fears of terrorism, a spectacular fire in one of Dubai's tall towers captured the world's attention. With few exception...

NEW YORK (AP) — A throng of 1 million revelers in Times Square rang in the New Year with raucous cheers and a blizzard of confetti, striking an optimi...

CHICAGO (AP) — City officials released hundreds of emails Thursday related to a police video that was kept secret for more than a year after a white C...

PARIS (AP) — In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers rang in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, res...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the accelerated production of missiles in response to U.S. plans to impose new sanctions. Rou...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or trai...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is being held at a Mexico City immigration ...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama and comedian Jerry Seinfeld compare cars and trade one-liners in a 19-minute episode of "Comedians In Cars Gett...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incendiary rhetoric has seeped into 2016 presidential politics, surfaced in the public debate over accepting Syrian refugees into th...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a fugitive Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is jailed in Los Ang...

BERLIN (AP) — Online retailer Amazon has pledged to donate its share of revenues from the sale of a song by the anti-Islam group PEGIDA to refugees, u...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the nation prepared for the 50th birthday of the National Park Service with a spending splurge...