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WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Plunging headlong into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for ac...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With a big anniversary drawing near, North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel p...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amid all the bombast in the Republican race for president, Ben Carson comes across more like a whisper. He is, in some ways, the an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed for a final say on the Iran nuclear deal before the congressional review period expires, but De...

GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) — A university instructor told police he killed his girlfriend at the home they shared in Mississippi, where investigators found a...

HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Search-and-rescue teams trudged through muddy streambeds Tuesday in a small polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border, looking f...

PARIS (AP) — When Islamic State extremists lost control of a key crossroads town in northern Syria in June, some militants shed their jihadi garb and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said Tuesday that embassy personnel in Egypt have identified six more bodies as those of Mexi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Will they or won't they? Nine years after they last raised their benchmark interest rate and after months of feverish speculation, F...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister-designate Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday assured the country that his government remained strong de...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A growing divide has emerged in the Republican Party's unruly presidential contest, as the race bid farewell to a once-powerful White...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Site investigations and some cleanup work at 10 polluted mining complexes in four states were suspended because of conditions s...

MUNICH (AP) — Embracing its role as a defender of those in need, Germany welcomed at least 10,000 more asylum seekers into the country Saturday. As of...

LONDON (AP) — A veteran anti-war campaigner known for his unapologetically socialist views has won a landslide victory to lead Britain's opposition La...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former tennis star James Blake, whose caught-on-camera takedown by a plainclothes New York City police officer prompted apologies from...

NEW YORK (AP) — During years of going to ground zero every Sept. 11, Tom Acquaviva has seen crowds diminish at the ceremonies commemorating the terror...

NEW YORK (AP) — Aiming to bring hope, healing and strength to neighbors struck by tragedy, the September 11 Memorial and Museum is sending seedlings f...