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Israel Starts Work on New Settlement Regardless of US Peace Efforts

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Philippines says school hostage drama over, 31 captives freed

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Kentucky coach John Calipari: 'I wanted Malik (Monk) in New York'

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Magic pick K-State's Iwundu with No. 33 pick in National Basketball Association draft

The Orlando Magic have chosen Florida State forward Jonathan Isaac with their first-round pick in the NBA Draft . It's the first time in the Magic's hi...

Political, Legal Experts Question Impartiality of Robert Mueller

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Kushner, Greenblatt met with family of murdered Border Policewoman in Israel

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Senate Republicans Unveil Secretive Health Care Bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his lieutenants have worked in secret for weeks on the bill , which is expected to curb Obamacare's expanded Med...

North Korea tests rocket engine, possibly for ballistic missile, say US officials

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Senate's 'Secret' Health Care Bill Cuts Medicaid, Eliminates Taxes for Wealthy

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Doctors: Ex-North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has severe brain injury

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Brexit could be a matter of life or death for Northern Ireland

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North Korea releases American student Otto Warmbier

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Darjeeling unrest: Will march with bodies of protesters killed, says GJM

The incident, in which several people were injured , prompted the administration to deploy the Army. "The police are also illegally entering our supporters' ho...

Supreme Court took on gerrymandering case, could dramatically change future elections

But Kennedy refused to declare, as four colleagues would have, that partisan gerrymanders are necessarily insulated from judicial review. The case of Gill...

Electorates agitate for Senators Dino Melaye's recall

The dark cloud of political obliteration hovering over Senator Dino Melaye grew considerably thicker on Wednesday after the Independent National Electoral Com...

India separatist charged with murder amid Darjeeling unrest

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USA troops wounded in apparent insider attack at Afghan base

He said there were no US or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation fatalities, but he noted that USA soldiers were wounded. Insider attacks have been occurring wi...

Escaped Georgia inmates captured in Tennessee

CORRECTS SOURCE TO GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IN SIGNOFF- This undated photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections Tuesday, June 13, 2017, ...

Ivanka Trump visits Capitol to talk family tax policies

Getting a family-centered proposal into a tax reconciliation bill would be "ideal", the Florida Republican said, adding that he would be open to moving an ind...

Modi does 'asanas' amid showers, says yoga connecting world

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Spicer Hasn't Asked Trump If Russians Meddled in 2016 Campaign

After yet another day of wondering if Press Secretary Sean Spicer is gonna lose his job, Stephen Colbert addressed the issue on Tuesday's Late Show . You'r...

Holocaust survivor wins Israel airline case over gender bias

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Owner of NY Jets nominated for United Kingdom ambassador post

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