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WASHINGTON - The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to temporarily fund the government, a key step toward averting a federal shutdown after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money fo...

STOCKHOLM - A key witness to the murder in Congo of two U.N. experts was poisoned in custody, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported Wednesday, citing a new confidential report by the United Nations. Insect...

LAS VEGAS - Nevada became the first state in the U.S. with an overall female majority in the Legislature on Tuesday when county officials in Las Vegas appointed two women to fill vacancies in the stat...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on Florida officials to formally pardon four young African-American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman nearly 70 years ago. The F...

WASHINGTON - Christmas at Vice-President Mike Pence’s official residence literally jumps out of the pages of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Every room on the main floor of the Na...

NEW YORK - The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based...

BENI, Congo - What’s an election campaign without shaking hands with potential voters? Congolese candidates in the thick of an Ebola outbreak, now the second deadliest in history, are finding ou...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - The counting of ballots has started in Madagascar’s runoff presidential election, after the polls closed to end the generally peaceful voting Wednesday. There was a re...

LOS ANGELES - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Alexander Salazar, following an allegation of sexual misconduct with a child in the 1990s, official...

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