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WASHINGTON - It may not equal Social Security and Medicare as a “third rail” program that politicians touch at their own risk, yet Medicaid seems to have gotten stronger after the Republic...

WASHINGTON - Proponents of nuclear power are pushing to revive a failed project to build two reactors in South Carolina, arguing that the demise of the $14 billion venture could signal doom for an ind...

OTTAWA - Joannie Rochette, who captured the hearts of Canadians when she competed at the Vancouver Olympics just days after her mother’s death, is headed to Skate Canada’s Hall of Fame. Sh...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rufino Varela was a distraught, confused 12-year-old when he went looking for help from the school chaplain to tell him he’d been sexually abused by a mason at his fami...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince hopes to transform the kingdom and modernize society, but the planned execution of 14 Shiite protesters charged with violence agains...

MANSHIYEH, Jordan - Since his family fled civil war in Syria five years ago, 15-year-old Ali al-Sbehi hasn’t set foot in a school. Instead, he has put in 12-hour shifts in a supermarket, a fast ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Massachusetts police officer is facing disciplinary action for writing “Hahahaha love this” on Facebook in response to a story about a car striking and killing a cou...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Tensions between the United States and North Korea tend to flare suddenly and fade almost as quickly - but the latest escalation won’t likely go away quite so easily....

MILWAUKEE - A British cybersecurity researcher credited with helping curb a recent worldwide ransomware attack pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges accusing him of creating malicious software ...

POND INLET, Nunavut - Inuit groups say their lobbying and traditional knowledge is behind a huge expansion in the boundaries for what is to become Canada’s largest national marine conservation a...