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MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi special forces launched a two-pronged assault deeper into Mosul’s urban centre on Friday, unleashing the most intense street battles against Islamic State militants since the...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - President Barack Obama likes to say that historians, not he, will evaluate his legacy with the perspective only hindsight can provide. Yet as he campaigns across the country for H...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and a senior aide discussed sending a secure cellphone to the secretary of state by FedEx or a personal courier, according to emails from 2010 released by the State Depart...

CLEVELAND - Hillary Clinton dispatched musical and political celebrities across battleground states Friday to try to energize Democrats in what’s become an increasingly competitive race. Donald ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Tens of thousands of South Koreans are expected to march in Seoul to demand President Park Geun-hye’s resignation on Saturday, a day after she took blame for a “...

PARIS - Sting is to headline the first concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris since it was targeted in Islamic State attacks a year ago that killed 130 people. The British singer will perform Nov. 1...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The landscape is virtually treeless around a coastal hub town above Alaska’s Arctic Circle, where even summer temperatures are too cold for northern-growing forests to take r...

BEIJING - China’s Dalian Wanda Group has added another entertainment trophy to its stable of overseas acquisitions, paying $1 billion for Dick Clark Productions, the TV company that produces the...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The distraught daughter of a man accused of killing two Iowa police officers said Friday that she talked to her father just two hours before the fatal shootings, and it was “t...

MARTINEZ, Calif. - A Northern California prosecutor said Friday that he’s charging a retired police captain with misdemeanour soliciting a prostitute, but found no other criminal conduct within ...