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YARZE, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of Syrians desperate to vote for President Bashar Assad tried to rush their embassy near Beirut on Wednesday, scuffling...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. "I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is rejecting calls from watchdog groups and some U.S. senators to speed up moving spent ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will seek to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year and then will ...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — High-caliber weapons fire echoed sporadically Tuesday through the eastern city of Donetsk and the mayor urged residents to sta...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Close to three months after the Malaysian jetliner disappeared, the government on Tuesday released reams of raw satellit...

NEW YORK (AP) — They're the $10 million men and women. Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fake appointments, unofficial logs kept on the sly and appointments made without telling the patient are among tricks used to disgui...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton writes in new excerpts from her upcoming book that she wishes she could go back and reconsider some of her pa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials have been holding private meetings this week aimed at soothing lawmakers' concerns over the U.S. posture in Sy...

DENVER (AP) — It wasn't all that long ago that Republicans used gay marriage as a tool to drive Election Day turnout. But as public opinion on the iss...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of scarce drugs and bot...

DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concer...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An undeveloped stretch of native prairie in south Puget Sound offers one of the few habitats in the world where...

GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican exercises effective worldwide control over its bishops and priests and must comply with the United Nations' anti-torture tre...

URUMQI, China (AP) — The assailants tossed explosives from two SUVs as they sped through a packed vegetable market, mowing through customers and wares...

BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted members of Thailand's former government turned themselves in to the country's new military junta Friday, as soldiers forcefully ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis insists his weekend pilgrimage to the Middle East is a "strictly religious" commemoration of a key turning point in C...