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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he'll vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court, calls him a 'qualified jurist'

The U.S. government has decided not to appeal a ruling freeing an Ecuadorian pizza deliveryman from immigration detention.

The U.S. Forest Service is advancing changes to sage grouse protections in five Western states that environmental groups say are part of the Trump administration's efforts favoring industry but that push the imperiled bird closer to extinction

The United Nations is asking Mauritania to investigate allegations that Mauritanian peacekeepers participating in a U.N. mission in Central African Republic sexually abused at least three children under 18

Authorities say a Union Pacific freight train crashed into the back of another freight train in southeastern Wyoming, killing at least one crew member

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading off for his fourth trip to North Korea

A jury has convicted white Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald

Two months after a stunning Islamic State attack on a southeastern corner of Syria in which more than 200 people were killed and 30 women and children abducted, tensions are boiling over, and young men are taking up arms

Macedonia's interior minister says police have arrested seven people from an alleged criminal ring accused of providing fake travel documents to people attempting to travel to the United States and Canada via Mexico

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit from a group of fishing associations that challenged the creation of an underwater monument in the Atlantic Ocean

South Dakota has approved a temporary water permit for an exploratory gold drilling project in the Black Hills despite opposition from Native American tribal officials and environmental groups

FIFA says it suspended Sierra Leone from international football because of government interference in how the national federation is run

A Utah Navy veteran has been charged with threatening to use a biological toxin by sending envelopes containing the substance from which ricin is derived to President Donald Trump and other top leaders

Appearance of company executive at hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh leads to sparks at Facebook

A man accused of strangling a model in one of Philadelphia's affluent Main Line suburbs has arrived for a preliminary hearing on murder charges

Therapy dogs at a hospital children's ward linked to superbug bacteria

Mattress Firm, Inc., the nation's largest mattress retailer, is filing for bankruptcy protection and plans to close up to 700 stores around the country

The head of Amnesty International said the human rights movement is being mobilized globally by an unexpected factor: U.S. President Donald Trump

One of Pope Francis' top advisers has warned that the Catholic Church risks increased police and government intervention if it doesn't address the clergy sex abuse scandal with system-wide reforms

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