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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions dramatically escalated the Trump administration’s war with California on Wednesday, suing over its so-called sanctuary state law and clas...

ERIE, Pa. - With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it’s easy to pin the blame for this industrial city’s plight on the loss of manufacturing...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Fatima Salem giggles with hesitation when it’s her turn to drive through a small parking lot lined with bright orange cones and arrows. Like millions of Saudi women, she p...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Missouri police officer who was shot and killed and two others who were wounded had been sent to the wrong house following a 911 call, authorities said Wednesday. Missouri Highway...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Donald Trump, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating its...

JUBA, South Sudan - Wiping tears from her cheeks, the young woman describes how she has resorted to prostitution to feed her children. When South Sudan’s civil war broke out in 2013, her family ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - President Donald Trump hasn’t spoken much about Africa, and what he’s said has been far from flattering. It falls to his top diplomat, on his first official visit t...

JOHANNESBURG - Assailants in South Africa attacked a top national triathlete who was cycling to a training session and cut into his legs with a blunt saw, causing severe injuries, an athletic director...

MONTREAL - A Montreal suburb’s plan to ban all smoking in public places is drawing mixed reactions, with one anti-tobacco advocate saying it will do more harm than good when it comes to second-h...

From the lobby of a hotel on the outskirts of Boston, Jesenia Flores fills out an online job application, hoping to find work that will get her small family back to normal for the first time since Hur...