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Imam saved London mosque attacker from angry crowd

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Student released from North Korea has severe neurological injury

At a news conference Thursday morning Fred Warmbier said he only learned a week ago Otto was unconscious and had been for more than a year. "We see the result...

Closing arguments set for murder trial over Baby Doe's death

A lawyer for Michael McCarthy , 37, in his closing argument on Tuesday, said McCarthy's former girlfriend, Rachelle Bond, killed 2-1/2-year-old Bella Bond , s...

Global displacement hits record high due to war, persecution

Of the total , some 10.3 million people were newly displaced in 2016, around two-thirds fleeing within their own countries, according to an annual report ...

France's Macron to reshuffle govt after huge parliament win

Socialist leader Jean-Christophe Cambadelis admitted a "historic defeat" for his party and resigned from his post. Newly elected French President Emmanuel Ma...

Senate Democrats stage overnight standoff over health care bill

Several senators took turns standing and requesting that the Republican healthcare bill be referred to committee for hearings and calling for the draft text to ...

Sena on board for Kovind; opposition to field candidate, says CPM

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BJPs Goa allies back Kovind for presidents post

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Supreme Court takes up Wisconsin gerrymandering

The Wisconsin case seems promising because the lower court said it found a way to measure the partisan nature of the districts. He's often the swing vote, a...

Tropical Storm Cindy forms nears Louisiana while Bret churns in Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has extended the Tropical Storm Warning westward to San Luis Pass, TX, and the Tropical Storm Watch from west of High Isla...

Carla Fendi, philanthropist and fashion force, dies at 79

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Boeing, Airbus compete for orders at air show

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Coroner examining death of US student released by North Korea

When Warmbier was first detained in Pyongyang airport allegedly for a "hostile act" - which turned out according to his conviction to be stealing a propaganda...

BJP must give a name for President immediately, says Opposition

Speaking to the reporters, CPI leader Sudhakar Reddy said, "On behalf of the three-member committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - Rajnath Singh and ...

Local unemployment rate rises to 4.8 percent in May

Jackson County: The unemployment rate of 2.4 percent ranked 69th in Indiana. Richland County had the state's 14th lowest unemployment rate, of 46 counties. Ric...

Washington Can't Decide Where It Stands On Growing Gulf Crisis

The Pentagon did not provide additional details on the sale but Bloomberg reported it could include as many as 36 warplanes. Just in November previous year, USA...

Traffic cop stops President Pranab Mukherjee's convoy in Bengaluru, rewarded

Deployed at the Trinity Circle, Nijalingappa's job was to ensure the swift movement of traffic on that road but when he had to choose between an ambulance and P...

Tropical storm likely for Windward Islands, second system strengthens in Gulf

Much like Cindy, there were watches and warnings in place before Bret was named. Forecasts say the storm could produce overall rainfall of 6-9 inches (15-23...

Xi snubs Sharif by skipping bilateral meet after murder of Chinese nationals

Prime Minister Narendra Modi , in his speech at the summit, reaffirmed India's keenness to enhance connectivity with the SCO nations, but stressed that conne...

'Offensive' Trademarks Are Protected by Free Speech

But was it? While it is encouraging that the Supreme Court can unanimously protect free speech as more important than not offending someone, at least in the cas...

After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision?

Russian Federation on Monday warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria as potential "targets" and halted an incident-prevention hotline with Wash...

Supremes to look at how districts are drawn

The state and the school districts will have until Friday, June 30, to submit briefs. Democrats accuse republicans of gerrymandering - drawing the lines ...

Thousands march after Castile verdict

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Venezuela crisis tops agenda for Americas summit in Mexico

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Trump decries 'witch hunt' even as lawyer insists no probe

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US says it shot down Iranian-made drone in Syria

Damascus says its plane was attacking ISIS. The downing of the warplane the first time in the six-year conflict that the US has shot down a Syrian jet c...

Russian jet flies within feet of United States plane over Baltic Sea

The U.S. military is reporting it has shot down another drone belonging to Syria. The incident occurred in the same vicinity as previous conflicts with pro-re...

Russian Federation suspends cooperation with U.S. in Syrian airspace following jet downing

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it has launched a series of missile strikes on eastern Syria over Islamic State-claimed attacks on Tehran . (Arab 24 network,...

Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests polygamist Mormon sect leader Lyle Jeffs

Wednesday in southeastern South Dakota , where he is still being held . An online log at the Minnehaha County, S.D., jail lists Jeffs as an inmate. The FBI...

Vince Young waived by CFL's Roughriders after hamstring injury

Ryan Pollock, the team's director of media relations, confirmed Steinberg is indeed Young's agent, but wouldn't release any details. At the time, the team said ...

Australia suspends airstrikes in Syria after US downed jet

For most of the last two years the USA and Russian Federation have coordinated their different campaigns in the crowded skies over Syria, but as their allied fo...