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The U.N. envoy for Iraq says the new government plans to intensify efforts to uproot cells of the Islamic State extremist group and introduce "robust measures" to achieve sustainable security throughout the country

A gray wolf relocated from the Minnesota mainland to Isle Royale National Park this fall has died

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For the second straight year, President Donald Trump will not be attending the Kennedy Center Honors celebrating cultural achievement

A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing nationalism and anti-Semitism years before the Nazis rose to power has been sold for nearly $40,000

The NFL has moved the Los Angeles Rams' Monday night showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs from Mexico City to Los Angeles due to the poor condition of the field at Azteca Stadium

Trump's national security adviser says people who have listened to an audio recording of the killing of a Saudi journalist do not think it implicates the Saudi crown prince in his death

Amid public criticism, the Texas Board of Education has voted to restore third grade lessons on Helen Keller that it had proposed cutting

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A former University of Alaska Anchorage runner who lost both of his feet to frostbite in 2011 ran his first marathon and became an American citizen last week

Actress Paz de la Huerta sues Harvey Weinstein, alleging the movie mogul raped her and then hurt her career

In an extraordinary move, Melania Trump is publicly calling for the dismissal of a top White House National Security Council official

Trump is partly right but far from completely correct when he says that France's "big tariffs" make it hard for American vintners to sell their wines here: Wrong because customs duties on imported wines are applied not by France but by the European Union

Christie's has sold the "Pink Legacy" diamond at auction for more than $50 million including fees, saying it's a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond

A Spanish-language reporter who faces deportation after his arrest while covering an immigration protest in Tennessee says he faces danger if sent back to El Salvador

Energy companies led a sell-off on Wall Street Tuesday that extended a losing streak for the S&P 500 index to a fourth day

U.S. defense secretary to take part in ceremony in Wyoming marking start of process to return disputed church bells to the Philippines

Romania's prime minister dismisses suggestions that the country is not prepared to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union next year

Police in Ohio say they found no signs of anyone with a gun at a hospital after reports of an active shooter led to a lockdown

The steepest fall in oil prices in more than three years pulled energy stocks lower on Wall Street, extending a losing streak for the S&P 500 index to a fourth day.