A pair of “apocalyptic” aftershocks shook central Italy on Wednesday, crumbling buildings, knocking out power and sending panicked residents into the rain-drenched streets just two months after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 300 people.
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The United States on Wednesday abstained for the first time from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for an end to a U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, after opposing such measures every year for 24 years.
SWAT team officers were executing search warrant inside a home when a 21-year-old resident allegedly fired one round from a handgun at the officers.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has ordered the Pentagon to stop seeking repayments of enlistment bonuses given to California National Guard members who served overseas.
Airstrikes in Syria killed 17 people, mostly children on Wednesday when warplanes struck a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib.
A Pakistani investigator says the police have arrested National Geographic’s famed green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ for having a fake Pakistani identity card.
Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in recent days.
A man accused of filming his escape after an Oklahoma crime spree could be headed to Las Vegas, according to Oklahoma’s Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Jurors who are considering whether to convict Ammon Bundy and his followers for their occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon have indicated difficulty in reaching a consensus.
The fatal shooting of a gorilla in its enclosure is still drawing attention but hasn’t significantly affected attendance, the director of the Cincinnati Zoo said.
A current or former employee shot one person to death and wounded three others before apparently killing himself at a rail car plant in Virginia early Tuesday, authorities said.
Authorities have suspended the search for a 21-year-old woman believed to be missing in the Columbia River Gorge.
Victim may have been struck by vehicle, authorities say.
State police have released the name of a father killed when he jumped off a New Jersey highway bridge with his two young sons, seriously injuring the children.
Arizona Department of Public Safety names trio killed on Saturday in crash on State Route 95.