Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90.
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Authorities offered a $20,000 reward Friday for information leading to the capture of two dangerous prisoners who broke out of a Northern California jail on Thanksgiving Eve after sawing through bars across a second-floor window.
Students and administrators raised concerns about a Tennessee school bus driver’s behavior behind the wheel in the weeks before a crash that killed six children.
About 80 protesters parade from the state Capitol to nearby Wells Fargo bank branch.
A Greyhound bus smashed head-on into a car going the wrong way on a suburban Phoenix highway early Friday, killing the car’s driver and leaving 13 bus passengers with minor injuries, authorities said.
Soldiers and police found an outlaw camp in southern Mexico where a kidnap victim was rescued, human remains were found in a cooler and 12 bodies were extracted from clandestine burial pits.
The white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful mom residing over “The Brady Bunch,” has died. She was 82.
Authorities were searching Thursday for two women suspected in the abduction of a California mother who turned up safe near an interstate three weeks after she disappeared.
The death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group rose to 73 on Friday, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims — the deadliest IS attack in four months.
Israeli firefighters on Friday reined in a blaze that had spread across the country’s third-largest city of Haifa and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, but continued to battle more than a dozen other fires around the country for the fourth day in a row.
Two Utah ski resorts plan to open for the season Friday thanks to mountain snowstorms and several days of cold weather that made man-made snowmaking possible.
As the beginning of the holiday season creeps ever earlier, retailers have been offering discounts on holiday merchandise since late October. The start used to be the day after Thanksgiving, but many mall operators and the big stores that anchor them are sticking with going earlier.
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