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Der Spiegel reported Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had sent a letter asking for a bigger military contribution from Germany.

Despite spending 14 years as a prisoner of the U.S., Shaker Aamer's first interviews focused on condemning extremists.

Clashes in the Central African nation have escalated over the president's bid to get a third term.

World leaders will have to balance domestic concerns and global realities in order to implement the agreement's key provisions.

The most-stressed participants in a study were found to be more than twice as likely to develop a precursor of Alzheimer's disease than the least-stressed participants.

Donald Trump remains the front-runner among GOP presidential candidates, while Cruz has risen to become No. 2 and Carson has fallen to become No. 4, a new poll indicates.

The marriage between the Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. and the Delaware-based DuPont Co. could mean factory closures.

The GOP U.S. presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the country won't be safe until it identifies one of its biggest security threats as Islamic radicalism.

Chinese consumers bought more fully electric cars in 10 months than the U.S.-based Tesla Motors Inc. has sold in its 12-year history.

The U.N. has been negotiating for a year to get Libya's two rival governments and other parties to end their war and focus on curbing the influence of the Islamic State group.

Leaders of almost 200 countries OK'd the pact that aims to hold the global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

China's Defense Ministry called its military drills in the region routine, while objecting to the U.S. sending a spy plane to Singapore.

At least four malls across the U.S. were evacuated Saturday, hitting retailers during the height of the holiday season.

Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and Rick Santorum are set to address an organization associated with a questionable poll about Muslims.

A new poll doesn't have Donald Trump on top, and he's mad about it.

The pontiff will visit poor regions afflicted by the drug war along with meeting the president and church hierarchy.

The president touted the American team's role at the Paris conference, while arguing the country's investments in solar and wind energy are creating middle-class jobs.

About 350 of those possibly infected in California were infants, the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center says.

About two dozen supporters of the Islamic State group have been charged in the country's courts.

Dozens were killed or wounded in Homs just days after rebels pulled out of the city in central Syria under a truce. ISIS claimed responsibility.

"I fear I can be killed like my friend yesterday," says Fidele Muyobera, 22. Discovered with hands bound behind their backs, dozens of bodies had bullet wounds in their heads.