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LYON, France - An explosion Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon injured seven people, local officials said.The cause of the blast that occurred in or outside a branch of the ...

WASHINGTON - A House GOP conservative complaining of Washington's free-spending and opaque ways blocked a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill on Friday, extending a tempest over hurricane and f...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill that bans abortions on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy without exceptions for cases of rape or incest, making it among th...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will bolster its military presence in the Middle East with an additional 1,500 troops, President Donald Trump said Friday amid heightened tensions with Iran.Trump said the troops...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration proposed Friday to roll back Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care, a move LGBT groups warn will unleash a wave of discrimina...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Abortion providers asked a federal judge Friday to block an Alabama law that would ban most abortions in the state. The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed t...

LONDON - Bowing to the inevitable, Theresa May announced Friday that she will step down as U.K. Conservative Party leader in two weeks, admitting defeat in her attempt to take Britain out of the Europ...

MIAMI - A surge of asylum-seeking families has been straining cities along the southern U.S. border for months, but now the issue is flowing into cities far from Mexico, where immigrants are being hou...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. filed new charges Thursday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of placing the United States at risk of "serious harm" by publishing thousands of secret and cla...

WASHINGTON - Congress is rushing to wrap up a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill, but only after Democrats insisted on jettisoning President Donald Trump's $4.5 billion request to handle an un...