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The stopgap legislation signed into law Wednesday gives the president and Congress more time to negotiate a longer-term budget plan.

Gov. Mary Fallin intervened after the three drugs planned to be used during the execution were called into question.

Researchers have found that black North Carolinians are three times as likely to have been arrested than whites.

More Hillary Clinton emails were made public Wednesday, placing more attention on the former U.S. secretary of state's private-server controversy while she runs for president.

The Republican presidential candidate's campaign is touting his record on drug control, but use of alcohol and marijuana increased while he was Florida's governor.

The management said it "respects its employees' right to unionize." Election votes will be tallied Oct. 6.

Moscow’s rhetoric about helping eliminate ISIS meant little while it continued to prop up Syria's President Bashar Assad, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.

Most Russians don't want their government to admit the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics into the Russian Federation, a poll says.

A national poll released Wednesday revealed that 10 percent of likely Republican primary voters called Donald Trump an "idiot," a "jerk," "stupid" or "dumb."

Germany reportedly carried out an unusual demographic experiment during the annual celebration of carousing.

"Every moment he stays in power adds to the shame of the countries that support him," the Turkish prime minister said at the United Nations Wednesday.

Gen. Gilbert Diendere, the coup leader who tried to overthrow Burkina Faso's transitional government, is reportedly sheltering at the Vatican's compounds in Ouagadougou.

"It’s long past time for Republicans and Democrats to put aside their differences and work together for the good of our country."

Hackers are launching more attacks than ever against U.S. universities — but they're not collecting as much personal information as you'd think.

“The Jews are always looking for antiquities,” Iraqi historian and archaeologist Ali al-Nashmi said Wednesday. “And so they extort, steal, and establish mafia gangs.”

Rising tensions across the Middle East, Europe and East Asia have kept international dollars lining the pockets of U.S. defense firms.

Ramzan Kadyrov is eager to send "world-class specialists" to help Russia fight the Islamic State group in Syria.

The Bank of England's Mark Carney warned that the consequences for financial markets of averting climate change could be "huge."

Israel said it received advanced notice of Russia's first airstrikes in Syria Wednesday as Western leaders worried about the areas targeted.

During an address before the U.N. General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for a stalled peace process.

The Obama administration this week is expected to adopt tougher limits on smog-forming pollution. Environmental and industry groups have both blasted the plan.

Polls suggest that Hillary Clinton remains popular with black voters, even after a bruising contest against Barack Obama in 2008.

China's growth from 2000 to 2012 was fueled in part by a rapid acceleration in debt.

The record-breaking GOP debate helped Fox score a rare quarterly win over Disney's sports juggernaut.

"We're not willing to gamble with workers' lives and risk another year without a raise for Oregon workers," an activist said.

A Brookings economist who criticized a proposed federal "conflict of interest" rule resigned after Elizabeth Warren questioned his own alleged conflicts of interest.

The Republican candidate says emergency contraception is an alternative to abortion.

President Barack Obama has to decide soon whether to continue the hunt for warlord Joseph Kony.

The vote sends an ongoing debate over federal funding for healthcare to the House, where far-right Republicans threaten to close the government over Planned Parenthood.