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WASHINGTON - New sanctions against Russia will be imposed later this month for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempted assassination of a former spy and his daughter in Britain earlier this ...

TANJUNG, Indonesia - The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300...

TOKYO - Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world's second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations chief and the city's mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward nuclear dis...

BERLIN - Germany is set to release later this year a man convicted of helping three of the suicide pilots in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Federal prosecutors say they will allow M...

LOS ANGELES- It may take until September to contain the largest fire in California history, which is bigger than the size of the city of Los Angeles. So far, two firefighters have been injured while f...

NEW YORK - New York City moved Wednesday to regulate the explosive growth of Uber and other app-based ride services with a temporary cap on new licenses for ride-hailing services. The City Council app...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The steady march of new "right-to-work" laws in Republican-led states hit a wall in Missouri, where voters resoundingly rejected a measure that could have weakened union finances...

WASHINGTON - The president has been privately fretting over his eldest son's legal exposure in the special counsel's investigation. But Donald Trump Jr. isn't letting any scrutiny slow him down. Specu...

SAN LUIS, Ariz. - The 3-year-old boy with a bowl haircut and striped shirt silently clung to his father in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol truck. Their shoes still muddy from crossing the border, the...

TAOS, N.M. - Prosecutors say in court documents that the father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings.The documents filed Wednesday say Sir...