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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will give up leadership of her center-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party after 18 years in the post, German media has reported....

PITTSBURGH — Gab has been taken offline following revelations that the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman used the social network to threaten Jews.A statement on the platform’s website ...

Days after the Museum of the Bible acknowledged purchasing forged Dead Sea Scrolls, more American Christians say they now suspect that they, too, have bought pricey fakes.Steven Ortiz, a professor of ...

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that "everything is on the table" with border security as she toured a border fence in California. Nielsen's comments and during a visit ...

WASHINGTON - A Florida man with a long criminal history was charged Friday in the nationwide mail-bomb scare targeting prominent Democrats who have traded criticism with President Donald Trump. It was...

LONDON - A man suspected of trying to steal a Magna Carta from its display case at Salisbury Cathedral has been arrested after he was wrestled to the ground by cathedral employees, British authorities...

NEW YORK - Facebook says it has removed 82 pages, accounts and groups linked to Iran from its service and from Instagram for spreading misinformation. The company says the accounts were targeting U.S....

SAN ANTONIO - An official says a Mexican national who has been living in the San Antonio area for decades under a stolen identity voted regularly during that time, including in the 2016 election. Sixt...

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC News says the "Megyn Kelly Today" show is being canceled. In a statement, the network news division said the show won't return, a decision that follows fallout from Kelly's on-air ...

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities took a man into custody Friday in Florida in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages, the FBI and Justice Department said. T...