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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department says it's sending 5,200 active duty troops to "harden" the southern border against a migrant caravan making its way through Mexico.Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy ...

BERLIN (AP) - Angela Merkel set off Monday on what could be a three-year countdown to the end of her leadership of Germany, a stint that has made her the European Union's longest-serving leader and a ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to...

(CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia native, wrote a letter to GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp asking him to step down as secretary of state and hand off oversight of the state&...

(CNN) — The man suspected of sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats around the country will be formally charged in court Monday. Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida, is facing federal ch...

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are mostly higher but have given up most of a big early gain Monday as a stretch of volatile trading that began early this month continues. Banks and health care companies ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the news media Monday following a week of election-season violence, arguing that "fraudulent" reporting was contributing to anger in t...

PITTSBURGH — Leaders of Tree of Life Synagogue are split on welcoming President Donald Trump to Pittsburgh following Saturday’s shooting at the house of worship.A former president of the s...

PITTSBURGH — The man accused of killing 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue is expected to appear in a federal court Monday.Robert Bowers faces 29 federal charges, some of which are punisha...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Rescue workers have retrieved six bodies from the site where an Indonesian passenger plane crashed into the sea close to the capital Jakarta on Monday 13 minutes after takeo...