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BEIRUT -- A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State extremist group Wednesday killed 18 people, including U.S. troops, in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, a war monitor reported.

The U.S. military confirmed ...Read more

DETROIT -- Inside a room in his aunt's home in Mexico, Jorge Garcia spends most of his days alone.

Separated from his wife and two children in metro Detroit, the 40-year-old father feels isolated, struggling to find work ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- If current trends continue, the number of aging homeless people will more than double in three major metropolitan areas, straining social and medical services, a report released this week concluded. It said...Read more

The law requires Federal Reserve officials to do what they can to foster maximum employment, yet it's becoming obvious they really won't know when or even if the economy ever gets there.

Last spring, the president of the ...Read more

Baltimore-based Lutheran World Relief is merging with a global health organization to broaden its reach in the impoverished nations it serves from Latin America to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Daniel V. Speckhard, a...Read more

Climate change helped fuel the deadly fires that prompted California's largest power company to announce Monday that it would file for bankruptcy in the face of $30 billion in potential liabilities.

In a grim twist, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Four years after his arrest, Robert Durst -- the idiosyncratic New York real estate tycoon accused of killing his best friend two decades ago -- finally has a trial date.

During a court hearing in Los ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea -- The U.S. and South Korea are discussing "corresponding measures" to reward North Korea's steps toward denuclearization, South Korea's foreign minister said, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities detained a 30-year-old Citrus College student suspected of threatening to "shoot up" the school on Tuesday, leading to a more than six-hour lockdown of the Glendora campus.

The incident began ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy appears to have passed his first test as House Republicans' minority leader this week -- holding the party together to sanction one of its own, Iowa Rep. Steve King, for his latest ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Federal agencies failed to follow the law in protecting the habitat of an endangered bumblebee that continues to be found in Illinois despite major population loss nationwide, according to a lawsuit filed ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A rookie commissioner from a South Florida beach city is facing calls for her resignation after she called newly elected Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib a "danger" and said the first Palestinian-American...Read more

WASHINGTON -- China is likely developing a long-range bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons and a space-based early warning system it could use to more quickly respond to an attack, according to a new report from ...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick were sworn in for second terms on a cold, gray Tuesday, continuing an era of Republican hegemony in the nation's largest red state with a promise of ...Read more

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Suspected al-Shabab militants launched an attack on an upmarket hotel in Kenya's capital Tuesday, with gunmen holed up for hours in the building in a standoff with police.

Kenya's interior minister said ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- North Carolina Republicans ratcheted up their drive to put Mark Harris in Congress on Tuesday, questioning "the entire legitimacy" of a state investigation into allegations of election fraud in the 9th ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has agreed to keep several thousand U.S. troops deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border until Sept. 30, again expanding a controversial mission that began last fall and already was extended once.

The...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a central figure in the Democratic Party's debate about the #MeToo movement, is preparing to join a 2020 presidential primary contest that features a record number of women in...Read more

In announcing layoffs last week, SpaceX pointed to its bid for riskier markets -- providing broadband internet via thousands of small satellites and building a spaceship for Mars transportation.

What went unsaid was that ...Read more

The Cranberries debuted the single "All Over Now" on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of lead singer Dolores O'Riordan's death.

The new song comes ahead of the April release of the group's eighth and final album, "In...Read more