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"Employees have indicated in an internal investigation that there were irregularities in ascertaining fuel-consumption data," a Volkswagen representative says.

So-called watch logs offer new information about the U.S. government's response to the assault on the American consulate in the Libyan city three years ago.

Although few Republican U.S. senators have made endorsements in the GOP presidential race, momentum has shifted to Marco Rubio from Jeb Bush.

"The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb," says a member of the Egyptian investigation team.

The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to hear a case centered on California's attempt to have nonprofit groups turn over lists of contributors' names, unredacted.

Egyptian authorities have been wary of calling the Russian plane crash in Sinai the result of a terrorist attack, even as governments look to overhaul airport security.

World and regional powers including Iran met in Vienna on Oct. 30 to discuss a political solution to Syria's civil war.

The elections were seen as a referendum on the prime minister’s party, which has been mired in controversy in recent weeks and struggled to push through key reforms.

The burst dams held back tailings ponds, masses of finely ground waste rock and water left over from extracting more valuable minerals.

On "Saturday Night Live," Donald Trump handled heckling by Larry David, but the sentiments of protesters outside NBC's studios may be more significant to the candidate's campaign.

The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to win the largest share of votes cast by an electorate of about 30 million.

The Communist Party's People's Daily repeated familiar threats against Taiwan the day after the historic summit.

"The United States will defend ... the principled international order," the U.S. defense secretary vowed, in the face of aggressive geopolitical moves from Russia and China.

The Florida senator's campaign released the remaining details of his GOP charge card transactions, and said the portion for personal expenses was repaid.

Now the neurosurgeon and presidential candidate's time at Yale is under scrutiny, after a Wall Street Journal report.

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday.

Germany's BND intelligence agency spied on the U.S., European allies, nongovernmental organizations and even Vatican diplomats.

U.S. authorities reportedly seized a Volkswagen employee's passport during a recent trip, stoking fears about criminal prosecution.

Trains now transport almost 1 million barrels of crude a day within the U.S., while some companies are pumping more through existing pipelines.

"I really want change," says one citizen of the Southeast Asian country. "I've been alive for 53 years and all I've seen is dictatorship."

The chain of Indian Ocean islands has been plunged into political turmoil since the Sept. 28 explosion on the presidential launch as it was about to dock in Male.

The lone adult survivor of the crash is recovering in a hospital.

As many as 150 bodies of crime victims may have been dumped into a pit in Morelos, an area known for kidnappings in the central region of the country.

The as-yet-unidentified sound was logged by the cockpit recorder a second before it ceased operating on the Russian plane that went down in Egypt last weekend.

Coalition jets conducted six airstrikes around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, destroying Islamic State fighting positions, machine guns, weapons caches and mortar positions.

An article alleging Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson fabricated elements of his claims about West Point prompted some conservatives to chastise the press.

Regulators in Beijing are postponing plans to loosen controls on China's economy as the country struggles to maintain an acceptable growth rate.

The release came as 23 civilians died in Russian airstrikes outside Damascus Saturday.

The Algeria-backed Polisario Front seeks independence and a United Nations mission was formed more than 20 years ago ahead of an expected referendum on Western Sahara's political future.