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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African Re...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When Albuquerque police fatally shot a homeless camper in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on March 16, the long-simmeri...

SEATTLE (AP) — Amanda Skorjanc was watching videos with her infant son when the lights in her home started to flicker and shake. She looked outside an...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who escaped prison in his native Mexico while serving a murder sentence was executed in Texas on Wednesday for fatally ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A car smashed into an Orlando-area day care Wednesday, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them childr...

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a "blank expression" stabbed and slashed 21 students and a secur...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation's comforter f...

DETROIT (AP) — Lacey Holsworth, the 8-year-old girl with cancer who befriended Michigan State basketball star Adreian Payne and inspired the team to m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic bill Wednesday curbing paycheck discrimination against women, an effort that even in defeat...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's President Vladimir Putin threatened Wednesday to start charging Ukraine in advance for vital gas supplies — a move that could s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An alarming lapse in Internet security has exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive bits of informa...

PERTH, Australia (AP) — The frustrating monthlong search for the Malaysian jetliner received a tremendous boost when a navy ship detected two more sig...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius refused to look at a photo of his dead girlfriend's bloody head wounds while testifying at his murder tr...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities moved to quell pro-Moscow uprisings along the Russian border with mixed results Tuesday, retaking one oc...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine posted at the main gate of a North Carolina base shot and killed a colleague inside a guard shack Tuesday, a milita...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Thin Man" with blood cocktails, an ode to hipsterism through the ages, a mainline shot of cool and a playful tribute to artist...

NEW YORK (AP) — A country music awards show, a series finale and the network's usually sturdy regular schedule led CBS to a dominant performance in th...

NEW YORK (AP) — "Game of Thrones" rules. On the heels of its explosive fourth season premiere, HBO has renewed the epic fantasy series for two more ye...