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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Irma grew into a powerful Category 4 storm Monday as it headed for the northeastern Caribbean and was forecast to begin buffeting the region Tuesday. The storm had ma...

BERLIN - German opposition leaders are complaining that Chancellor Angela Merkel and challenger Martin Schulz left key issues unmentioned in their single televised debate ahead of the Sept. 24 electio...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - About 13,000 lionfish will be caught in Florida waters when an annual contest to remove the invasive species wraps up. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s...

WASHINGTON - Harvey has scrambled the equation for Congress as lawmakers get ready to return to Washington on Tuesday after a five-week summer recess. A daunting workload awaits, including funding the...

KARACHI, Pakistan - A suspect involved in an attack on a lawmaker killed one police officer and wounded another during a raid at his house and he was able to escape from his eastern Karachi neighbourh...

PARIS - French authorities have handed preliminary kidnapping charges to a 34-year-old man in the case of a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a wedding celebration in France. Grenoble prosecutor&#...

WASHINGTON - Congress needs to combine a $7.9 billion disaster relief package for Harvey with a contentious increase in the nation’s borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says, argu...

WASHINGTON - A plan President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children was embraced by some top Republicans on Monday and denounce...

BEIJING - China says President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with countries that deal with North Korea is unacceptable and unfair. Trump said on Twitter on Sunday the United States is c...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s corruption court on Monday sentenced one of the country’s top judges to eight years in prison for taking bribes, the second time a constitutional Court jud...