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HONOLULU - When an erroneous alert was sent out last month telling people in Hawaii that there was an incoming ballistic missile, Jeffrey Wong was an island away from the state’s emergency manag...

CAYCE, S.C. - Passengers on a train that slammed into an empty freight train over the weekend in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees, described a smoky, bloody scene in 911 calls released to ...

DENVER - From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation’s most prized natural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration’s proposal to add a sea-launched cruise missile to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, criticized by some as overkill, is meant to provide new negotiating leverage to...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The New York Police Department overstepped its reach when it used a Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal information about whether it put two Muslim men under surveillance, a lawyer rep...

MANSOURA, Egypt - A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt’s Western Desert, where ancient sands have long helped preserve remains, but unlike most finds this one isn’t a mummy - it’s ...

BEKARREDAR, Ethiopia - The 25-year-old Kedija had her external genitalia removed and her vagina sewn up when she was just seven days old. She has faced a lifetime of pain. “I was unable to hold ...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s head of state is coming to archrival South Korea, but it’s the wrong one - at least if the goal is peace on the volatile Korean Peninsula. K...

WASHINGTON - For months, President Donald Trump boasted about having steered the U.S. stock markets to record high after record high. What a difference a few days can make. The market free-fall, explo...

EDMONTON- Premier Notley has six months to call a by-election to fill the legislature seat left vacant by United Conservative Party member Don MacIntyre. The Speaker’s office says it received Ma...