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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — All 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The latest on North Korea's announcement that it conducted a hydrogen bomb test Wednesday (all times Seoul): 5:31 a.m. Thurs...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The man behind the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge comes from a Mormon family that has been challenging government...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

Shiite cleric's execution in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia exposes Mideast's dangerous divisionsAfter a year of political pregame, 2016 race gives way to a...

The U.S. stock market took investors for a wild ride in 2015, but in the end it was a trip to nowhere. Despite veering between record highs and the st...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norway's center-right government on Tuesday proposed tightening the country's asylum rules to avoid what the immigration minister des...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — India's Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, his first such trip as prime minister to this Islamic nation that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a $1.1 trillion measure that will boost spending for defense and non-defense programs over the com...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as the Federal Reserve is pulling back slightly on the economic accelerator, Congress is pressing down a bit harder. The spendi...

Congress Oks budget deal worth $1T in new spending and $680B in tax cuts, sends bill to ObamaKey countries meet in latest push to launch Syrian peace ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's crunch time to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. The website works much better now, but risi...

PARIS (AP) — The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won't be easy — or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-...

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Talks on a global pact to fight global warming appeared to make progress late Friday, with some negotiators telling The Asso...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling it a "Christmas miracle," President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Thu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The way the nation's public schools are evaluated — teachers, students and the schools themselves — is headed for a major makeover, ...

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Talks on a universal climate pact shifted to a higher gear Monday, with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging government...

PARIS (AP) — The cold hard numbers of science haven't spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as climate negotiators struggle in Paris, s...

PARIS (AP) — In climate math, the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees is much greater than 0.5. Small nations say that for them, that half-degree cou...