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Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert agreed to plead guilty on charges associated with reported sexual assault attack on high school student.

The lower rate has come from discretion by agents in the field, not policy changes, a Texas Border Patrol union representative said.

John Cisna made a documentary that shows how he lost weight while eating McDonald's.

Ukraine bought a $3 billion bond from Russia right before former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014.

For more than 20 years, a mysterious person has been waging a lethal campaign of poisonings against dogs in one of Hong Kong's wealthiest districts.

Buenos Aires police are investigating the death of Diana Sacayán as a homicide.

Parents and drug abuse prevention advocates have voiced concerns over pens that look like hypodermic needles amid a rising heroin and opioid problem in the U.S.

“I don’t really understand how the U.S. can criticize Russia’s actions in Syria if they refuse to have direct dialogue."

New reports indicate one of the two men responsible for carrying out Turkey’s deadly terrorist attack Saturday owned a well-known ISIS hang-out spot.

At least 12 protesters who refused to leave the City Hall building were arrested and charged with trespassing early Thursday.

The possible move, reported by the New York Times, comes ahead of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the U.S. next week.

The change in U.S. policy, which will cost another $14.6 billion, comes after the Taliban's strong showing in the battle for Kunduz.

At least two million Syrian refugees currently live in Turkey and the country has made strides to accommodate them — but Europe needs to pitch in.

Hungarian Member of the European Parliament Bela Kovacs has temporarily lost immunity after he had accused of espionage in favor of Russia.

The facility is one of the "numerous missile bases" scattered across the country, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh reportedly said.

In September, a lawyer of one of Kim Davis’ deputies said Davis changed marriage licenses weakening their legality.

Activists opposed to the permanent appointment of Kevin Davis, Baltimore's interim police commissioner, stayed inside city hall early Thursday after the city council meeting ended.

Only 16 percent of Americans now ascribe to the view that global warming is not real, according to a survey from the University of Michigan.

Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson made the remarks at a press roundtable in Tokyo at the start of a trip around Asia.

An investigation is underway into the incident as police launch a manhunt for at least two suspects.

Over several interviews, the Democratic presidential candidate recalled how learning about the Holocaust helped him understand the role of politics in life.

The 19-year-old's younger brother was hospitalized in serious condition with blunt-force-trauma injuries, authorities said.

Gains by the Islamic State group near Aleppo would threaten supply lines of rival rebels in the city, which is divided between insurgents and government forces.

The Democrat said Thursday that she had hoped the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have "enforceable provisions."

“If you’re a Hillary supporter and you were worried ... you should feel very good about yourself,” a Democratic strategist said after Tuesday's debate.

The ban should be abolished because it “turns innocent people into criminals,” sources said.

The doomed El Faro "should have never left dock" amid hurricane conditions, attorney Willie E. Gary told reporters in Jacksonville, Florida.

More than two-dozen players have yet to receive cash prizes because the state's lottery commission has frozen payments until lawmakers in Springfield pass a budget.

In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a woman outside Jerusalem's central bus station, before an officer shot him dead, police said.