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Small animals are used to bait greyhounds while dogs that lose too many races are treated brutally and put down, according to a government inquiry.

Modi's planned visit to Israel would make him the first Indian prime minister to visit the Middle Eastern nation.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten introduced the bill, hoping to capitalize on momentum from Ireland's popular referendum on the issue.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has been in poor health for some years, recently spent seven months in the hospital and was discharged in May.

The Ministry of Defence says nearly 800 British soldiers are already working in training and support roles in the region.

A man in Rochester, New York, died Sunday after police officers shot him with a stun gun following a confrontation.

A 9-year-old girl was in critical condition Sunday after a vehicle smashed through the wall of a Los Angeles airport terminal.

"I can't breathe," suspect who later died told police officers who held him down.

The leader of a pro-Iranian Shiite militia fighting ISIS proposes a strategy for defeating ISIS, not just liberating Ramadi.

Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, North Carolina, became the oldest woman to finish a marathon Sunday in San Diego.

The removal of Russian and Iranian advisers points to the possibility the battle is turning against the regime.

President Obama urged the Senate "to ensure this irresponsible lapse in authorities is as short-lived as possible."

ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Libyan town. Military leaders responded by calling for military mobilization.

A pair of double shootings in Baltimore Sunday made this month the city's deadliest May in more than 40 years.

Texas transportation officials expect the figure to rise as the state tallies damages from the past week.

Dry branches reportedly caught fire and spread to a nearby fuel tank.

ISIS considers Hamas a "heretical" organization and accuses it of conducting a war on Islam.

President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term has set off deadly protests.

Jeb Bush said in his brother's zeal to protect the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, George W. Bush failed to reign in congressional spending.

The Chinese capital will, starting Monday, ban tobacco smoking in public places.

The 46-year-old son of the vice president died Saturday of brain cancer.

“It’s clear President Obama is beginning his final assault on our Second Amendment rights by forcing his anti-gun agenda on honest law-abiding citizens."

Scattered thunderstorms over the weekend brought only brief respites from the heat that has killed almost 2,200, but the cooling monsoons should arrive this week.

The No Social Security for Nazis Act went into effect last January, ending retirement payments to four recipients, but 133 reportedly still are receiving checks.

If convicted in a case centered on the Rana Plaza factory complex collapse that killed 1,129, building owner Sohel Rana could be sentenced to death.

More than 32,000 classrooms were destroyed across Nepal when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on April 25, affecting almost a third of the 28 million population.

The three Leicester City players were on a celebration tour in Thailand.

A string of attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants have come in the wake of the inauguration of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

The lockdown of the Tufts University campus outside Boston was lifted Sunday at about 8 a.m. EDT.