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"Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known."

The measure now goes to the state House where it is expected to win approval Sunday and be signed into law next weekend.

The bodies were discovered by search teams and may be part of a group of nine swept away inside a house in Hays County last weekend.

After a week of extreme flooding in Oklahoma and Texas, residents of Wharton, Texas, prepared for the worst Saturday.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a mosque just hours after a Boko Haram attack.

ISIS destroyed the Syrian regime's infamous Tadmor prison.

The Swiss-made aircraft will be the first plane to go around the world using only solar power.

Ash Carter has told China to stop building artificial islands in order to expand its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The "hermit kingdom" lived up to its name when it came under attack in 2010.

A federally funded effort to finally test the DNA collected in rape kits over many years may bring a measure of justice to sexual-assault victims.

Ahead of the upcoming controversial presidential election, sources say the vice president of Burundi's election commission has fled the country.

The former president of Georgia, the pro-Western Mikhail Saakashvili, has been appointed the governor of the region of Odessa in Ukraine.

"The idea [Sepp] Blatter could reform FIFA is suspect," Greg Dyke says. "I’d be very surprised if he was still in this job in two years' time."

It isn't clear yet whether the gunplay in San Diego early Saturday was gang-related.

The talks were the first substantive meeting since Iran struck an interim accord with the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China on April 2.

Gay-rights activists clashed with opposition in Moscow Saturday as anti-gay sentiment in the country continues to rise.

The U.S. senator from Kentucky says he will not allow the passage of the USA Freedom Act, despite a plea by President Barack Obama.

The crowd cheered for Martin O'Malley. But most in it agreed they would be OK with Hillary Clinton as their U.S. presidential nominee in 2016.

President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration late on Friday to free up federal funds to help rebuild areas of Texas affected by the storms.

Yang Xiuzhu, a former municipal official in China, had been on the run for more than a decade.

Maryland's ex-governor will attempt to offer the most serious alternative to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Democratic Party's primary season.

An influential lawmaker in Moscow warned in February that authorities have on their radar dissident-friendly services such as Tor.

The migrants have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean in the last 24 hours, the Italian coastguard said on Saturday.

The attack occurred barely a day after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who swore to crush the Islamist militant group.

The quake struck off the eastern coast but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage since the quake was extremely deep.

The civilian death toll in the attacks -- carried out by regime forces in the city of Aleppo and the town of Al-Bab -- is likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Most of the 2,000-plus people who have perished are believed to be either daily wage laborers or older people suffering dehydration or sunstroke.

Many Baltimore residents say the decades-old distrust between African-Americans and law-enforcement agencies worsened under the former Maryland governor's leadership.

The FIFA head was re-elected Friday despite condemnation from other soccer authorities and countries around the world.