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ZACHARY, La. - Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana “even after the TV ca...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Attorneys for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are trying to send his court case “off the judicial cliff” by arguing that U.S. Sen. John McCain improperly swayed military decisio...

WASHINGTON - With suspicions on both sides mounting, the United States is struggling to preserve its wobbly partnership with Turkey as the Turks entertain closer relations with Russia and fume over a ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament on Tuesday pushed back against the military after it appeared to dismiss civilian oversight following Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to launch airstri...

NEW DELHI - Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday. The 42-year-old m...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Northern California judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman reignited debate Tuesday about his a...

GANSBAAI, South Africa - On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. He has free-dived with great white sharks f...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador has a new job in the province. An official with a service organization in St. John’s says it has hired Kathy Dunderdale as ...

GENEVA - Two days after Russia finished fourth in the Olympic medal table, its Paralympic team was barred from the next big games in Rio de Janeiro as punishment for a state-backed doping program. Spo...

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Gaston is strengthening as it moves over the far eastern Atlantic. The storm’s maximum sustained winds had increased Tuesday to 65 mph (100 kph). The U.S. National Hurrica...