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MARAWI, Philippines - Filipinos marked their country’s Independence Day by raising the national flag Monday in a southern city where troops pressed assaults to quell a three-week siege by Islami...

HARTFORD, Conn. - The families of some Sandy Hook shooting victims are angered that NBC is airing an interview by Megyn Kelly with a conspiracy theorist who has claimed the massacre never happened. Ne...

NOIDA, India - Every 100 metres (330 feet) or so along a busy expressway on the outskirts of New Delhi, you’ll find a child selling corn - quite possibly a child too young to be working legally....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico’s governor is vowing to make the U.S. territory the 51st state after statehood won in a non-binding referendum hit by a boycott and low turnout that raised qu...

ALLAN, Jordan - A top-notch research centre that brought together Iran, Israel and other Mideast antagonists is launching operations this fall in hopes of boosting scientific discovery with the help o...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Prosecutors on Monday played videotape from inside a Penn State fraternity that showed a pledge suffering through an agonizing night from untreated injuries sustained in a fall durin...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist seconds after the man informed him he was carrying a gun “did what he had to do” in a thoroughly justified us...

CORUMBA, Brazil - Greener pastures grow under water in the Pantanal de Mato Grosso do Sul, an immense area of wetlands in western Brazil. On his feet hours before sunrise, 66-year-old Joao Aquino Pere...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Massive waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and rivers raging in mountains throughout the western United States are thundering with greater force than they have for y...

JACKSON, Ga. - In the woods south of Atlanta, John and Yvette DeMaria are with about a dozen camouflage-wearing, heavily armed Americans huffing and puffing as they scramble to navigate the sprawling ...