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WASHINGTON - First, the United States imposed a tax on Chinese steel and aluminum. Then, China counterpunched Monday with tariffs on a host of U.S. products, including apples, pork and ginseng. On Wal...

JOHANNESBURG - Even the name given to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at birth - Nomzamo, “one who undergoes trials” - foretold a life of struggle. During her nearly 38-year marriage to Nelson M...

WASHINGTON - In a story April 3 about President Donald Trump announcing that he wants to use the military to secure the border, The Associated Press reported erroneously the length of the U.S.-Mexico ...

WASHINGTON - An agency ethics official at the Environmental Protection Agency says Administrator Scott Pruitt’s lease of a Capitol Hill condo tied to a prominent fossil-fuels lobbyist didn’...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump criticized the major television networks on Tuesday as “fakers.” Trump tweeted that the “‘Fakers’ at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done...

BALTIMORE - It was July 2015 when the FBI, scrambling to contain a surge in Islamic State group propaganda, first visited an Egyptian-American newspaper deliveryman in Maryland. Agents needed to ask M...

JERUSALEM - In an abrupt and startling reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nixed his own deal Tuesday with the United Nations to resettle tens of thousands of African migrants in Israe...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Streets. Schools. A bridge in Burkina Faso. The name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. can be found across Africa, a measure of the global influence of the American civil rights lea...

TEL ARBOUSH, Syria - The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colours of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the park. With feathers or gold tiaras on their...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between pl...