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Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts
Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in ...
German climber dies on Alaska's Mount McKinley
Officials say a 59-year-old German mountaineer has died of cardiac arrest while climbing Alaska's Mount McKinley. National Park Service officials say ...
Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding
Circumstances surrounding the grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island will be explored in a public hearing in ...
Italians to race in America's Cup but want changes
The owner of the Italian entry in the America's Cup said Friday his boat will compete in this summer's races after all, but he suggested a new ...
Prosecutors: More time to indict Boston suspect
U.S. prosecutors say they'll ask for more time to indict Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Prosecutors said Friday they will not ...
Alaska volcano continues to erupt, with lava, ash
A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing ash clouds and a lava fountain several hundred feet (more than 100 meters) into the air.
US, Turkey project united front on Syria
President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front Thursday on Syria, keeping stark differences about how ...
US court denies asylum to German home-schoolers
A U.S. appeals court has denied asylum to a Christian family who fled Germany so they could home-school their children, ruling that immigration laws ...
Turkish Cypriot leader seeking US help on talks
The prime minister of the breakaway Turkish north of ethnically divided Cyprus was in Washington on Thursday looking for ways to revive stalled ...
British PM Cameron visits Boston Marathon memorial
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited an impromptu memorial that sprang up near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, striking a combative ...
French minister to discuss shaky Libya on US trip
Terror groups ousted from Mali appear to be trying to set up a new haven in Libya, France's defense minister said Monday, vowing to discuss ways of ...
Canada deports convicted terrorist after 26 years
A Palestinian man convicted of hijacking an airliner in Greece in 1968 has been deported from Canada 26 years after entering the country using an ...
School giving France letter from Napoleon's nephew
Northwestern University plans to give France letters from Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Joseph and his nephew, Napoleon III, that were saved by an ...
US mortician: Bombing suspect's burial legal
The director of the Massachusetts funeral home where Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was held says the family of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect had the ...
Obama calls Republican talk on Benghazi a sideshow
President Barack Obama is dismissing Republican criticism of his administration's handling of the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, calling ...
A look at new saints canonized by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Here is a look at the people receiving the ...
Burial of Boston bombing suspect appears legal
The burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev appears to be legal, a law enforcement official said after examining the paperwork ...
Cardinal skipping graduation over Irish PM's views
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley said Friday that he won't attend Boston College's graduation because the Jesuit school's commencement speaker, Irish ...
America's Cup yacht nosedived, broke into pieces
The America's Cup catamaran that capsized in San Francisco Bay, killing an Olympic gold medalist, nosedived during a difficult maneuver and broke into ...
Prince Harry pays tribute to US war dead
Britain's Prince Harry is paying tribute to America's war dead at Arlington National Cemetery. The prince walked Friday morning through Arlington's ...
Petitioners ask marathon to let them finish in '14
Runners who couldn't complete last month's Boston Marathon because of the bombs at the finish line have created an online petition asking organizers ...
French woman finds US vet's tag from World War II
A small, weathered piece of silver has finally finished its journey from a backyard in southern France to the 90-year-old U.S. veteran who lost his ...
3 resign from US church in priest scandal
The pastor of a church that let a priest barred by law enforcement from working with children continue to go on youth retreats has resigned.
Bodies of 2 US crew found at Kyrgyzstan crash site
Search teams on Saturday found the bodies of two American crew members near where their military refueling plane crashed in the rugged mountains of ...
US military plane carrying 3 crashes in Kyrgyzstan
An American military refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where ...