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Planned Parenthood said that it was being targeted by "extremists" trying to discredit the organization's work.

Israel carried out a series of "disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks" on civilians in the Gaza border town of Rafah, Amnesty claims in a new report.

The truck crashed into a religious procession by local Catholics in the town of Mazapil in central Mexican state of Zacatecas.

The pilot had requested to abort the landing before the plane burst into flames, according to reports.

The landslide struck two villages near the resort town of Pokhara, 125 km (77 miles) west of Kathmandu.

Is the wreckage from MH370? Specialists will glean clues about the plane's fate and perhaps the location of other parts.

Relatives of the missing MH370 passengers have expressed caution, anger and pain over news that debris thought to be from the aircraft has been found.

Investigators are on their way to La Reunion to determine if newly found wreckage can help solve the MH370 mystery. But many questions will remain — for now, and maybe forever. 

In a rare admonishment of a close ally, the United States urged the European Union on Wednesday to speak out more forcefully to support Washington in its dispute with Chinaover building and militarization of man-made outposts in the South China Sea.

Yousef Al-Qaradawi said that he had previously endorsed the use of suicide bombers only by those living under Israeli occupation.

Billionaire Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead in the race for the 2016 U.S. Republican presidential nomination with the support of 25 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, giving him a double-digit advantage over nearest rival Jeb Bush.

The news of Omar’s death comes just days before a second round of peace talks in neighboring Pakistan between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

Privacy advocates are bombarding Congress with faxes in an effort to kill the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.

Photos of the debris found in the Indian Ocean. There were 239 people on board when the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur in March 2014 -- and disappeared.

Three University of Virginia graduates on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist over a now-debunked 2014 article describing a fraternity gang rape.

In light of recent purges and ballistic rocket capabilities, Kim Jong Un's North Korea is seen as a rising international threat.

Female recruits will need to be "recruited, accessed, trained, tested and assigned" before taking any of the 245,000 jobs currently unavailable.

Huckabee is the only Republican candidate to attend the AFL-CIO's meetings with 2016 contenders this week.

U.S. United Nations Rep. Samantha Power criticized the Russian veto, saying that Russia had "abused the privilege given to it by the U.N."

A criminal defense lawyer said he agreed to help the DuBose family out of concern for authorities' unresponsiveness to their information requests.

A New York appeals court denied a second appeal to release transcripts from the officer's grand jury trial for killing Eric Garner.

Debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, also known as MH370, may have washed ashore on the island of Reunion near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

A wing part found Wednesday could lead investigators to the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March 2014.

One lawmaker promised she would have a bill ready for the state in which a majority of citizens back legalizing marijuana.

“We are dedicated Europeans. We just want our country to stop overcharging us with taxes.”

U.S. military chiefs are expected to resolve tough questions about how transgender personnel can join the ranks.

No. 1: The program helped end racial segregation in medical facilities.

The alternative weekly newspaper is treating Trump as a minor story even as the mogul-turned-candidate blows up in the media.

After attacks by women and girls linked to Boko Haram, the full Islamic veil is outlawed in parts of Niger and Cameroon.