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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN NEW YORK — President Barack Obama was honored Wednesday night with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Ripple of Hope award at a gala in New York. “As ...

By Andrea Diaz, CNN ATLANTA, Ga. — Booking a flight on Delta Air Lines? You may have to leave your fur babies behind. In keeping with a recent industry trend, the airline is placing more restric...

ANKARA, Turkey - A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass Thursday at a station in the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing nine people and injuring dozens, officia...

LONDON — Organizers of a Christmas event have apologized to outraged parents after a fire alarm reportedly prompted Santa Claus to burst out of his grotto, rip off his beard and scream at childr...

IRVING, TX — The Boy Scouts of America is considering filing for bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.Boy Scouts leadership has hired the law firm Sidley Austin LLP for possibl...

DERBY, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas man shot himself in the head with a nail gun as he fell off a ladder, but was able to walk to the site of a traffic accident to ask law enforcement for help.Sedgwick County...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Nancy Pelosi has all but ensured that she'll be elected House speaker in January by agreeing to limit how long she'd serve in the post to no more than four additional years.The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the government agency that monitors climate change says that in nearly two years he has never discussed the issue with President Donald Trump.Acting National Oceanic and ...

LONDON (AP) - A British government minister says Prime Minister Theresa May has told restive lawmakers she will step down as the Conservative Party's leader before the next national election, due in 2...

NEW YORK - Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would "take a bullet" for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an array of c...