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French prosecutors say that a suspect in the November 2015 extremist attacks in Paris has been released and placed under judicial supervision in Belgium. More>>
An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of small Spanish-speaking children being processed by U.S. officials stoked the uproar over the policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. More>>
Hundreds of unaccompanied child immigrants arrested at the U.S. border are being held in metal cages at a family detention facility in McAllen, Texas. More>>
'Don't leave me, Mom': Woman from El Salvador describes separation from 8-year-old son after crossing border. More>>
President Trump's national Security adviser says North Korea is facing a "decisive and dramatic choice" on whether to give up its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and ballistic missiles. More>>
Hundreds of family members are waiting in desperation at a small port on an Indonesian lake for news of missing relatives as the search for more than 190 people from a sunken ferry entered its fourth day. More>>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun a visit to Jordan, a major refugee host country, amid an escalating domestic conflict over migration that has shaken her coalition government. More>>
Japan plans to suspend the civilian evacuation drills it started last year while North Korea was repeatedly test-firing missiles near and over Japanese islands. More>>
South Korea says a joint military exercise scheduled with the U.S. has been suspended to support ongoing talks both countries have with North Korea. More>>
For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred. More>>
Chinese state media say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make a two-day state visit starting Tuesday. More>>
Prosecutors: 5 people charged in 'smuggling scheme' after fatal crash of SUV fleeing Border Patrol, sheriff's deputies in South Texas. More>>
Migrant babies and young children are being held in special "tender age" shelters after being taken from their parents at the US-Mexico border. More>>
Trump defends without apology his administration's border policies despite rising outrage over separation of migrant children and parents. More>>
Trump defends without apology his administration's border policies despite rising outrage over separation of migrant children and parents. More>>
The White House is establishing a new policy for reducing satellite clutter in space. More>>
South Sudan's warring leaders to meet Wednesday for 1st time in nearly 2 years, Ethiopia says. More>>
Halting South Korea-US drills risks weakening allies' deterrence against North Korea. More>>
The leaders of Germany and France are meeting to coordinate the two major European powers' positions on the future of the European Union ahead of next week's EU summit. More>>
Syrian army helicopters have dropped leaflets over rebel-held parts of the country's south calling on civilians to help the military clear the area of militants. More>>
A senior Houthi-linked health official says the Saudi-led coalition has bombed a bus carrying civilians, killing six people on the outskirts of the Yemeni city of Hodeida. More>>
Track Palin has formally entered into a diversion court program after assaulting his father so severely that it left him bleeding from the head. More>>
Iraq condemns the targeting of pro-Syria paramilitary troops eastern Syria after an airstrike killed mostly Iraqi Shiite forces. More>>
California has sued the Trump administration more than half a dozen times over its immigration policies, so the state will find itself in an unusual position when it's forced to defend its own immigration moves in court. More>>
Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia says lawmakers "need to do everything we can" to make sure children can stay with parents who cross the border illegally. More>>
Uncertainty looms over Colombia's fragile peace deal with the victory of one of its most hawkish critics in a bruising presidential runoff that laid bare deep divisions in the South American nation as it tries to emerge from decades of bloody conflict. More>>
Yemeni military officials say fighting has escalated outside the airport of the vital Yemeni city of Hodeida. More>>
South Sudan's warring leaders set to meet face-to-face for 1st time in nearly 2 years. More>>
Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is now the face of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border. More>>
The United States is emphasizing that its pullout from the United Nations' main human rights body doesn't mean it's stopping its work with the U.N.'s rights chief. More>>
Calls mount for Trump to end family separations ahead of meeting with House Republicans. More>>
A West Point cadet who tweeted pictures of himself at graduation with the message 'communism will win' is out of the Army with an other-than-honorable discharge. More>>
Yemeni government forces backed by the United Arab Emirates say they have seized the southern runway of the international airport near the Yemeni city of Hodeida. More>>
Israel's military says its warplanes have struck some 25 Hamas positions in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and mortars at southern communities. More>>
Italy's anti-migrant interior minister says after meeting with right-wing Austrian counterparts that changing political winds in Europe have created "a historic moment" that could change the way Europe controls its exterior borders. More>>
Researchers find remains of 2 Civil War soldiers buried in surgeon's pit with batch of severed limbs on a Virginia battlefield. More>>
Turkey's official news agency says a court has accepted an indictment charging the father of NBA player Enes Kanter with "membership in a terror group.". More>>
NATO's chief is urging the 29 member countries to set aside a festering trans-Atlantic row over trade, climate and the Iran nuclear deal, amid concern the tensions will undermine the military alliance. More>>
Italian President Sergio Mattarella says it is up to a united European Union to manage the arrival of refugees forced to flee their homelands. More>>
How did US come to separate thousands of migrant children from their parents?. More>>
The Pentagon says it has formally suspended a major military exercise planned for August with South Korea, a much anticipated move stemming from President Donald Trump's nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. More>>
The government hasn't worked out a streamlined way to reunite kids and parents separated at the border under the new zero-tolerance policy requiring all immigrants who cross the border illegally to be prosecuted. More>>
U.S. officials: American military command in South Korea prepares for North Korea to turn over remains of an unknown number of U.S. or allied service members missing since the Korean War. More>>
Politicians and advocates are flocking to the U.S.-Mexico border to visit immigration detention centers and turn up the pressure on the White House amid a growing uproar Monday over its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. More>>
US Army commander nominated to take over U.S. operations in Afghanistan warns Congress that if America leaves the fight too rapidly, there is a risk Islamic State militants could merge with al-Qaida. More>>
American twin brothers killed in World War II are reunited 74 years after their deaths at a cemetery in Normandy. More>>
The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans as Democrats turned up the pressure. More>>
The Senate is set to pass a defense policy bill that would block a White House plan to allow Chinese telecom giant ZTE to buy component parts from the U.S. More>>
Experts say Trump's threatened auto tariffs would raise prices, cut sales and would bring industry layoffs. More>>
Florida's busiest airport is becoming the first one in the nation to require all passengers on arriving and departing international flights, including U.S. citizens, to submit to a face scan. More>>
North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for his support in last week's groundbreaking summit with President Donald Trump. More>>
The Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy on immigration bubbled over as a major issue in the media Monday. More>>
A Pearl Harbor survivor has said what could be his final goodbye to the site where thousands of fellow sailors and Marines died nearly eight decades ago. More>>
Lawmakers from both parties are criticizing tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on imported steel and aluminum products in the name of national security. More>>
President Donald Trump has met with lawmakers after the Senate moved to block a White House plan to allow Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp. to buy component parts from the U.S. More>>
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says officials will not apologize for enforcing immigration laws that result in the separation of children from their parents. More>>
A Pearl Harbor survivor has said what could be his final goodbye to the site where thousands of fellow sailors and Marines died nearly eight decades ago. More>>
Officials in a Saudi-led coalition now battling Shiite rebels for control of a crucial port in Yemen on Tuesday displayed weapons captured on the battlefield that they say show Iran is arming the insurgents. More>>
Senate approves defense policy bill that would block a White House plan to allow Chinese telecom giant ZTE to buy component parts from the U.S. More>>
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Separation of migrant children from parents fuels backlash against Trump immigration policies. More>>
A convicted Greek far-left terrorist, serving multiple life terms for a string of assassinations, has temporarily walked free after being granted a two-day furlough, the third since late last year. More>>
UK prosecutors say an Islamic State follower plotted a suicide bombing targeting British Prime Minister Theresa May at her Downing Street office. More>>
The Vatican and Mexico are lamenting how children "are suffering the most" from migration, as the Trump administration comes under increasing criticism for its policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. More>>
Greek anti-terrorism police in Athens have arrested an extreme far-right lawmaker on treason-linked charges, more than two days after he evaded arrest by speeding past a series of police highway checkpoints. More>>
A sheriff says at least five people are dead and several others hurt as an SUV carrying more than a dozen people crashed while fleeing from Border Patrol agents in South Texas. More>>
North Korea's cyberattacks against US and its allies fails to make Singapore summit talking points 3 years after crippling Sony attack. More>>
Dozens of Afghans have arrived in Kabul after trekking across the country on foot calling for an end to the 17-year war. More>>
Trump's about-face on separating immigrant families comes after mushrooming blowback from all corners. More>>
As Donald Trump presses ahead with plans for a summer summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, the president is jolting relationships with some of America's longest and strongest allies. More>>
A majority of Americans now approve of President Donald Trump's handling of North Korea, but most don't think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is serious about addressing international concerns about his country's nuclear weapons program. More>>
The White House is planning to propose merging the education and labor departments as part of a broader government overhaul. More>>
President Donald Trump says the U.S.-Mexico border is a "big mess," and that at some point the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate "will be forced to do a real deal" on immigration. More>>
The United States is warning Russia and Syria's President Bashar Assad of "serious repercussions" for violations of an unraveling cease-fire in southwest Syria. More>>
South Sudan's armed opposition rejects 'imposition' of peace deal after Kiir, Machar meet. More>>
An ambitious House GOP immigration overhaul is teetering ahead of voting. More>>
Trump supporters steadfast even as photos of children in cages and audio of terrified children crying out for their parents stoked outrage. More>>
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has one hard-earned presidential signing pen, receiving hers after President Donald Trump used it to sign an executive order halting family separations at the U.S. border. More>>
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is drafting an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct DHS to keep families apprehended at the border together during detention and ask the Department of Defense to help house them. More>>
Libya's self-styled national army in the east says it has regained control over two key oil port terminals after an armed group attacked them a week ago. More>>
Trump's about-face on separating immigrant families comes after mushrooming blowback from all corners. More>>
Speaker Paul Ryan says he's going ahead with votes on rival House GOP immigration to end family separations at border. More>>
British Prime Minister Theresa May says the United States is wrong to separate migrant children from their parents, but has rejected calls to cancel President Donald Trump's visit to Britain next month. More>>
Israel's internal security agency is accusing a former government minister of spying for archenemy Iran.The Shin Bet says Gonen Segev was arrested upon arrival in Israel a month ago. More>>
Syrian state TV is reporting that the U.S.-led coalition has struck a military position in the country's east, leaving several troops dead and wounded, allegations denied by a U.S. official. More>>
A Kremlin spokesman says the Russian government is relieved that nobody died in a weekend taxi crash in Moscow that injured two Mexican World Cup soccer fans and six other pedestrians. More>>
Erosion of immigrant protections began when Trump took office and continued for months. More>>
The push toward immigration votes in the House is intensifying the divide among Republicans, and it's fueling concerns that a voter backlash could cost the GOP control of the House in November. More>>
The remains of a soldier who left Chicago to fight in the Korean War have come home to be buried in the nation's most sacred cemetery. More>>
Work has started on a new ventilation system that will clear the way for more radioactive waste to be hauled underground and disposed of at the U.S. government's nuclear repository in southern New Mexico. More>>
Hundreds of children are waiting away from their parents inside a Border Patrol holding facility in South Texas, with groups of 20 or more children to a single cage. More>>
UAE's campaign for Yemen port city of Hodeida a major test of militarily muscular Gulf nation known as 'Little Sparta'. More>>
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has defended the U.N.'s main human rights body, alluding to signs the U.S. may withdraw from it over its alleged bias against Israel. More>>
President Donald Trump has approved a plan to impose tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods. More>>
Witnesses say the Saudi-led coalition has carried out airstrikes on the airport in Yemen's rebel-held port city of Hodeida. More>>
The Israeli military says its aircraft have struck a vehicle belonging to someone who sends burning kites into Israel from Gaza. More>>
A suicide bomber has struck in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 10 people in the second attack in as many days targeting Taliban fighters, security forces and civilians celebrating a holiday cease-fire. More>>
Syrian state TV says the U.S.-led coalition has struck a military position in the east, leaving several troops dead and wounded. More>>
President Donald Trump credits his accord with North Korea's Kim Jong Un with saving tens of millions of people from nuclear war. Now he just has to get everyone else on board. More>>
Voters in Colombia head to the polls Sunday to choose a leftist former guerrilla or a young conservative lawmaker to lead the nation as it implements a still fragile peace accord. More>>
An Afghan official says a suicide bombing in the eastern city of Jalalabad has killed at least 10 people. More>>
A taxi crash near Red Square has raised concerns among some World Cup fans about security. More>>
Sen. John McCain's legacy was thrust into focus nearly one year ago when he announced his brain cancer diagnosis. More>>
A Kenyan legislator says eight police officers have died in his constituency after the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb planted suspected extremists. More>>
Yemeni official say Saudi-led forces have seized the airport in Yemen's rebel-held port city of Hodeida. More>>
Pakistani caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk describes the killing of Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan as a "significant development in the fight against terrorism.". More>>
Nigerian police and military officials say that six suicide bombers killed at least 20 people in northeastern Nigeria. More>>
Hundreds of supporters of an Armenian parliament member who was arrested on suspicion of illegally storing firearms and explosives are protesting outside the headquarters of the country's national security service. More>>
In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a peace deal that ended five decades of guerrilla war. More>>
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries. More>>
Yemeni rights advocates and relief workers say areas adjacent to the airport in Hodeida are under siege and thousands of people are unable to leave as roads are shut down amid intense fighting. More>>
Greek lawmakers enter the final day of debate on a no-confidence motion against the government over a deal to end a decades-old dispute with neighboring Macedonia over the latter's name. More>>
Gustavo Petro began his ascent to the cusp of Colombia's presidency in this self-built barrio named after South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. More>>
Global stock markets are mostly lower as U.S. President Donald Trump's approval of a plan to impose tough tariffs on China renewed concerns about trade friction. More>>
The White House says President Donald Trump supports immigration legislation that he suggested earlier Friday he wouldn't sign. More>>
Afghan official says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a gathering of mostly Taliban who were celebrating a three-day cease fire outside the Nangarhar provincial capital of Jalalabad. More>>
President Donald Trump says North Korea has already started to return the remains of US soldiers missing from the Korean War. More>>
North Korea's cyberattacks against US and its allies fails to make Singapore summit talking points 3 years after crippling Sony attack. More>>
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has rescued around 270 migrants and recovered three bodies from more than 30 boats trying the cross from Africa by sea. More>>
Battles have intensified outside the airport the Yemeni vital city of Hodeida between thousands of pro-government Yemeni fighters backed by a Saudi-led coalition of mostly Emirati forces, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. More>>
Congressional Republicans distance themselves from the Trump administration's aggressive policy of separating children from their parents at the border. More>>
According to Homeland Security figures obtained by the AP, nearly two thousand children have been separated from their families at the border since a new policy cracking down on illegal entry. More>>
Diplomats say the United States is about to quit the United Nation's main human rights body, primarily over Washington's claim that the Human Rights Council is biased against Israel. More>>
The U.S. Army has resumed destroying obsolete chemical weapons at a Colorado depot after a nine-month shutdown for repairs. More>>
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani touts three-day cease-fire with the Taliban in an address to the nation heralding the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr. More>>
Afghan Defense Ministry official says a U.S. drone strike in northeastern Kunar province has killed Pakistan Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah. More>>
Top Emirati official says Saudi-led campaign to retake Yemen's port city of Hodeida "means that the Houthis will no longer be able to impose their will at the barrel of a gun.". More>>
President Donald Trump said he wants his people to "sit up at attention" when he speaks, just like North Korea's Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon), but later said he'd meant the comment in jest. More>>
After being blindsided by President Donald Trump's decision to shelve major U.S. military exercises in South Korea, Seoul appears to be going along with it. More>>
A Finnish court has convicted an asylum-seeker of two terror-related murders and eight attempted murders for a stabbing attack last year. More>>
A Copenhagen court has ordered Denmark's Defense Ministry to pay compensations to 18 Iraqi civilians who were detained by Iraqi security troops during a 2014 military operation in Iraq in which Danish soldiers were there with the Iraqi troops. More>>
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is addressing the nation during Eid al-Fitr prayers. More>>
House Republicans unveil a draft immigration bill that gives young immigrants here illegally a path to citizenship, beefs up border security and ends longtime preference for family visas. More>>
The German government has set up a special office to advise companies worried about their business dealings with Iran amid fears they'll be targeted by U.S. sanctions. More>>
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the UN has determined that debris from five ballistic missiles launched from Yemen into Saudi Arabia contained components manufactured in Iran and shared key design features with an Iranian missile. More>>
A senior journalist and his two police bodyguards were shot to death by assailants in Indian-controlled Kashmir. More>>
The United States and its Asian allies worked to paper over any semblance of disagreement over President Donald Trump's concession that the U.S. would halt military exercises with South Korea. More>>
Fighting around the Yemen port city of Hodeida has resumed as a Saudi-led coalition tries to retake it from Shiite rebels known as Houthis. More>>
President Donald Trump's decision to suspend major U.S. military exercises in South Korea could weaken allied defenses, depending on the length and scope of the hiatus. More>>
The White House says President Donald Trump's decision to return a military salute to a North Korean general is 'common courtesy.'. More>>
House Republicans unveil a draft immigration bill that gives young immigrants here illegally a path to citizenship, beefs up border security and ends longtime preference for family visas. More>>
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's not comfortable with a Trump administration policy that separates children from their parents at the southern border. More>>
The Yemeni government-controlled SABA news agency has reported that government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have taken control of a town south of the port city of Hodeida. More>>
A senior official from the United Arab Emirates says the U.S. has rejected three separate requests for military assistance in the ongoing Saudi-led coalition attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeida. More>>
The French Football Federation has set up 'Casas Bleues' to provide hospitality for backers of Les Bleus who have traveled to Russia for the World Cup. More>>
German prosecutors say they've thwarted an Islamic extremist plot to launch an attack with the deadly toxin ricin. More>>
President Donald Trump's choice to be the next ambassador to South Korea has told senators that he believes the U.S. must continue to worry about the nuclear threat from North Korea. More>>
The Trump administration has freed up a fraction of some $200 million in frozen funds for Syria stabilization programs, leaving nearly $195 million in limbo. More>>
France's interior ministry says that two suspects are facing preliminary charges over preparations for an unspecified attack in the name of the Islamic State group. More>>
Turkey's military says Turkish and U.S. officials, meeting in Germany, have reached an agreement on a plan for the strategic Syrian town of Manbij that was a source of tension between the NATO allies. More>>
Greece's supreme court has rejected a second bid by Malta for the extradition of a Russian whistleblower who helped a murdered Maltese journalist investigate money-laundering in high places. More>>
Senators from both parties seek to mend a frayed relationship with Canada during a closed-door meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. More>>
Australia's prime minister has joined critics of Australian Special Forces troops who were photographed more than a decade ago flying a Nazi flag from a vehicle while on patrol in Afghanistan. More>>
Gunfire heard near Yemen port city of Hodeida as Saudi-led coalition's deadline expires for Shiite rebel withdraw. More>>
Human Rights Watch alleges that Israel's use of lethal force against Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks could be war crimes. More>>
President Donald Trump is stretching credulity at home and abroad by declaring there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" after his summit with Kim Jong Un. More>>
President Donald Trump declares on Twitter there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," but top aide says that will take a while. More>>
A historic deal ending a decades-long dispute between neighbors Greece and Macedonia over the latter's name has met with mixed reactions in both countries, with some welcoming the agreement and others horrified at what they see as unacceptable concessions. More>>
South Sudan's warring leaders invited to meet next week for first time since 2016. More>>
South Korean president Moon faces both praise or criticism for mediating Trump-Kim summit. More>>
House Republicans are laboring to strike an immigration accord. More>>
The United States' top diplomat is jetting to South Korea to brief the country's president as Asian allies try to parse the implications of an extraordinary nuclear summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. More>>
A spokesman of South Korean President Moon Jae-in says Washington and Seoul need to consider a "variety of ways to further facilitate dialogue" while they are engaged in nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang. More>>
President Donald Trump is stretching credulity at home and abroad by declaring there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" after his summit with Kim Jong Un. More>>
President Donald Trump is stretching credulity at home and abroad by declaring there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" after his summit with Kim Jong Un. More>>
An Air Force officer with top security clearance who deserted 35 years ago and was arrested in California last week worked for years as a consultant for the University of California system. More>>
The U.S. government has awarded a team of two universities and a research firm with offices around the world a $2.5 billion-a-year contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory. More>>
President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, has been released from the hospital after what the White House had described as a "very mild" heart attack. More>>
China has emerged a big winner at the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after the U.S. president made surprising pledges to suspend war games with South Korea and eventually pull U.S. troops from there. More>>
President Donald Trump is urging South Carolina Republican voters to dump frequent critic Rep. Mark Sanford. More>>
The head of the U.S. Border Patrol in Tucson says the wounded agent shot this week while patrolling a remote area alone near Arizona's border with Mexico was attacked by an unknown number of assailants, one of whom fired at him at close range. More>>
Trump's proclamations of historic success at his unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have drawn unflattering comparisons to his rejection of the Iran nuclear deal. More>>
The priority attention North Korea gave to the summit underscores just how much of a coup it saw in Kim Jong Un's meeting with President Donald Trump. More>>
President Donald Trump has arrived back in Washington from his historic nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore. More>>
Saudi-owned satellite news channels have announced the start of the Saudi-led coalition's assault on Hodeida. More>>
Authorities say an Air Force officer with top security clearance who disappeared in New Mexico 35 years ago has been found in California after using a false name for decades. More>>
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