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WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales rose at a healthy pace in October, though the gains were likely boosted by one-time factors such as hurricane recovery spending and higher gas prices. Retail sales rose ...

SYDNEY, Australia - Medical staff say that conjoined twins from Bhutan who were separated at an Australian hospital last week have been healing well, showing their cheeky side, and have become impossi...

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan’s government said it is planning to construct a new state capital in a central location in what was a wildlife park, to make the seat of government more accessibl...

WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. active-duty troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border has “pretty much peaked” at the current total of 5,800, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Thurs...

TOLLAND, Conn. - Like many victims of a Connecticut sex trafficking ring that preyed on troubled young men and teenage boys for more than 20 years, Samuel Marino never told his family or police about ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. - The sheriff’s sergeant who gave his life saving others during a mass shooting last week was remembered warmly Thursday as a deeply religious man devoted to family who ...

SUNRISE, Fla. - For months, members of the panel investigating Florida’s high school massacre have called the sheriff’s deputy assigned to guard the campus “a coward” for hidin...

SYDNEY, Australia - It wasn’t grand theft. It was tiny. But the snatching of a baby meerkat from a zoo has not only become a major story in the Australian city of Perth, it has led to the arrest...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Bangladesh’s plans to begin repatriating Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped because officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return t...

STRASBOURG, France - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russian authorities’ arrests of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were politically motivated, a decision that deals a b...