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PARIS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local): 7:10 p.m. The Eiffel Tower, which dimmed its lights in mourning following F...

PLEASANT POINT, Maine (AP) — Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid fever and a century after...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential rivals Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are backpedaling furiously as they try to outmaneuver each other on im...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the elephant in the negotiating room that few officials want to acknowledge: Whatever international deal comes out of Paris cli...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government started its new budget year with a deficit in October, although the imbalance was made worse by a calendar quirk...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Anti-austerity lawmakers forced Portugal's center-right government to resign Tuesday by rejecting its policy proposals at the ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in a cl...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional parliament of Catalonia launched a plan Monday to set up a road map for independence from Spain by 2017, defying ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Myanmar's historic general election that will test wh...

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government pledged Friday to take immediate legal action against the regional parliament of Catalonia if the Barcelona-based...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's plan outlining the long-stalled effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, expected in the coming week, inc...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Die-hard communists are poised to walk the corridors of power in Portugal, and a new generation of leftist radicals is right b...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — It's about returning democracy to a nation held hostage to more than a half-century of military rule. It's about hope for a bet...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar will hold general elections on Sunday to choose representatives for both houses of Parliament, known as Pyidaungsu Hlut...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian rammed his vehicle into an Israeli police officer in the West Bank on Wednesday, seriously injuring him before he was s...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan lawmakers who were forced from office over an extramarital affair and a convoluted cover-up scheme are running Tues...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bouncing from politics to the big screen and back, Fred Thompson played many roles well and those who knew him say the folksy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday ruled out a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system while President Barack Obama is in of...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's ruling party secured a stunning victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule o...

ATLANTA (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton, shouting over protesters, promised black Americans Friday that she would address systemic racism and, if electe...