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BEIJING (AP) — Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town held an annual dog meat festival Monday despite international criticism of the event as cruel ...

FRIENDSHIP — The manhunt for escaped prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat in Allegany County entered its second day Sunday morning in the small town...

NEW YORK (AP) — The burger chain that put "supersize" into the American vernacular is slimming down: For the first time in more than 40 years, and per...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal, who is under scrutiny for recent comments about race, her background and her behavior as a civil rights leader, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Mother Nature isn't the only one blamed for California's drought. The state's historic four-year dry spell has brought with ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, killing n...

NEW YORK — BrianWilliams won't return as NBC "Nightly News" anchor at the conclusion of his suspension for misrepresenting his role in a news story an...

DALLAS (AP) — A churning tropical storm has caused little damage so far in Texas, but authorities warned Wednesday that as Tropical Depression Bill mo...

NEW YORK (AP) — He doesn't need the money, but if Donald Trump's presidential campaign falters, late-night comics would surely pass the hat to keep it...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Victims' loved ones made their way toward Berkeley from Ireland as investigators Wednesday tried to pinpoint the cause of a ba...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Millions of Muslims around the world will mark the start of Ramadan on Thursday, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to...

FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AP) — Greek and Turkish Cypriot politicians on Wednesday pledged to preserve Cyprus' rich cultural heritage after hailing the resto...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The effort to train Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants has been slowed by a lack of recruits and the U.S. will not meet i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Guantanamo Bay detainees are using President Barack Obama's own words to argue that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is over — and th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Office of Personnel Management investigative official said Tuesday the agency entrusted with millions of personnel records has a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, complained Tuesday that his committee should...

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters took full control of the border town of Tal Abyad on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State group's ability...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A fourth-floor balcony of a California apartment building collapsed Tuesday, killing five Irish students and leaving eight oth...