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NEW YORK — (AP) After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance to 2014 and gratefu...

(WASHINGTON) — Several New York Republicans are angling to replace the bad boy of Congress now that Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign, but the leading candidate appears to be the district...

(NEW YORK) — Allen Howe was a typical 4-year-old, goofy and playful, until one day a few months ago when he became very sick.What started out as a fever and a nagging cough quickly developed int...

(NEW YORK) — The United Nations Security Council voted against Palestinian statehood on Tuesday.Eight of the fifteen member nations voted in favor of statehood, but the measure needed nine votes...

(HAYDEN, Idaho) — A young mother was shot and killed by her 2-year-old son Tuesday in an Idaho Walmart, police said.Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said that the boy ...

(NEW YORK) — Now that investigators believe they have zeroed in on the crash area for the missing AirAsia jetliner, they will treat the area like a crime scene as first they try to recover bodie...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece was sending a navy frigate and a helicopter Tuesday to locate a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants in the northern Ionian Sea after authorities ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autopsy report released on a 25-year-old black man killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police appears to affirm initial statements by officers about the struggle tha...

SYDNEY (AP) - As hundreds of search crews frantically scour the waters off Indonesia where AirAsia Flight 8501 went down, a couple of ships a few thousand kilometers (miles) to the south are quietly c...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Italian prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the crippled Greek ferry Norman Atlantic back to Italy as part of a criminal investigation, saying they fear more bodies will be fou...