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For a long time, pundits touted the Kentucky senator as not only a strong 2016 contender, but a virtual lock for the GOP nomination.

The results of Monday's Iowa caucus were expected to have several low-polling candidates altering their plans.

Neither the train, track or signals were to blame for a May 2015 derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people, a report said.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio does not need to win Monday in Iowa, but he does need to exceed expectations at the caucuses, political analysts say.

The endorsements of Democratic and Republican presidential candidates were made a couple of days before the caucuses conducted by early-voting Iowa.

The British bank has been ordered to disclose a report detailing why it has been slow to comply with laws against money laundering.

The Pakistan Taliban was rumored to be behind the Jan. 20 Bacha Khan University attack, which left more than 20 people dead.

During the final GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz took one another to task.

Ben Carson said Thursday while he might not have politics on his resume, he has a proven record handling difficult situations.

The Democratic candidate met with the president at the White House on Wednesday, just days before the Iowa caucuses.

Yahoo News began publishing Monday correspondence archived by convicted killer Ted Kaczynski.

Donald Trump has joined in saying Republicans do not like Cruz, even calling the senator a "nasty guy."

The storm was blamed for at least 28 deaths and left hundreds of thousands of people without power, as it dumped more than 2 feet of snow on many areas.

Pregnant women in particular should avoid countries with Zika virus, the CDC said.

If you were enjoying the relatively mild winter, you’ve probably heard by now: that’s about to change.

A group of 26 states filed a lawsuit with the court, accusing the president of abusing his authority by circumventing Congress.

U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order and a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan revoking the sanctions on Iran.

The real-estate mogul also his rival a “natural-born Canadian” while Cruz called Trump a "frantic" tweeter.

The Howard County Board of Education also voted to observe Diwali and the eve of the Lunar New Year.

After the Republican candidate joked about falling asleep waiting for a question, Twitter users slammed his debate performance.

The 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corporation announced his engagement with Mick Jagger’s ex Tuesday.

Paging Dan Quayle: The campaign of the front-runner in the race for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination misspelled the name of a town in Iowa.

Jeena Lee-Walker said she thought the civil rights material stemming from the racially charged 1980s case was important.

In a one-hour meeting on CNN called "Guns in America," the president explained his recently announced executive actions.

Oversight diminished after 9/11, and surveillance of Muslims increased. Privacy advocates hailed the announcement.

U.S. attorneys in Alabama have "grave concerns" about the chief justice’s order to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

While the test would be North Korea’s fourth test in ten years if the news is accurate, the history of the North’s nuclear weapons program can be traced back to the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung.

Her previous plans fall somewhere between those of her top primary opponent Bernie Sanders and the GOP field.

Shiite-Sunni tensions in the Middle East exploded into violent rioting this weekend after a Shiite cleric was put to death by Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia.