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France seeks united US-Russia assault on Islamic State militants as nation honors 129 deadParis returns to work with defiance and worry; 'Afraid, but ...

PARIS (AP) — France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training c...

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A house explosion in northern New Jersey that shook a neighborhood has killed one person and left two severely burned in critic...

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...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his first public comments on the latest scandal rocking the Vatican, Pope Francis told followers in St. Peter's Square on Sunda...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The evacuation of a squalid Roma camp this week has forced Sweden to come to terms with a troubling new reality: For the first time i...

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...

CAIRO, Ill. (AP) — The only public health clinic in Illinois' poorest county is in a former synagogue off a largely abandoned main street, a bright sp...

MILAN (AP) — Just a day after rescinding his resignation, Rome's embattled mayor was forced out of office Friday after the city council yanked its sup...

DENVER (AP) — Cities trying to limit panhandling in downtowns and tourist areas are facing a new legal hurdle because of a recent Supreme Court ruling...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council has approved filmmaker George Lucas' plan to build a museum along Lake Michigan. The "Star Wars" director plan...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — The political future of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, was thrown into doubt Wednesday wh...

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Four exit polls from Ukraine's local elections released Monday indicated the governing coalition would retain its dominant po...

HOUSTON (AP) — After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's four...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Nearly a month of Russian airstrikes in Syria has boosted morale at a refugee camp in a suburb of this coastal city, where resid...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Kurdish official says a new administration has been formed for a majority Sunni-Arab town controlled by Syrian Kurds, expanding the et...

TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) — A man in Old West attire drew a revolver, fired a series of shots, and his nemesis fell to the ground with a gunshot wound. It...

TRNOVEC, Croatia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All ti...

BEIRUT (AP) — Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded targets in central and northern Syria, killing at least four civilians Sunday as ground troops batt...

BERLIN (AP) — A candidate who was stabbed as she campaigned by a man who said he acted out of anti-foreigner motives was elected Sunday as the new may...