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LONDON (AP) — Raising a worldwide alarm, the World Health Organization announced Monday that spread of polio is an international public health emergen...

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. committee compared the Vatican's handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal with torture Monday, raising the possibility tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution even if they routinely stress Christianity, a divided Suprem...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti. The w...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Across the state on the same rail line where a train loaded with highly combustible crude oil derailed, a fire chief sees the po...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a village Friday in northeastern Afghanistan, leaving as many as 2,000 people mi...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some of the three drugs used in a botched Oklahoma execution this week didn't enter the inmate's system because the vein they wer...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — Syria's government and rebels agreed to a ceasefire Friday in the battleground city of Homs to allow hundreds of fighters holed up ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded the immediate release of his party le...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a robust 288,000 jobs in April, the most in two years, the strongest evidence to date that the economy is picki...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel mounted a display of trans-Atlantic unity Friday against an assertive Rus...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired U.S. general came under sharp criticism from a Republican committee chairman on Thursday after testifying that the Obama a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska State Troopers were shot and killed Thursday when they were conducting an investigation in the Interior Alaska vil...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Crews used cranes and other heavy equipment Thursday to clean up a derailment that plunged oil-carrying tanker cars into a Virgi...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man is accused of setting a trap and blindly blasting a shotgun into his garage, killing a 17-year-old German exchange ...

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Sixty-two students were arrested Thursday after police said they broke into their high school overnight for a senior class prank,...

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began a leave of absence Thursday to seek treatment after a report surfaced about a second video of him apparent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired general who was in the U.S. military's operation center during the 2012 attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Liby...