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President Obama showed off his funny side on the "Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night.

A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows a majority of blacks and whites think race relations are bad.

HMS Bulwark will join the operation after being held up in port following a U.K. diplomatic spat with Italy over the fate of migrants after they are saved.

Omar Khadr, the youngest inmate ever to have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, spent 10 years there before being sent to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence.

Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month's earthquake, and were digging for signs of others missing, officials said.

Law enforcement officials named two gunmen suspected of opening fire at a Prophet Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas.

President Obama on Tuesday will nominate Marine Corps' Commandant Joseph Dunford as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. officials said on Monday.

The new Pew Research Center survey also indicates most agree with prosecutor's decision to charge Baltimore officers in Freddie Gray's death.

The former secretary of state also will answer questions regarding her use of a private email account.

Federal authorities charged New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son with engaging in a corruption scheme, in the latest of a string of criminal cases against politicians in Albany.

OSHA will prepare a bulletin encouraging employers to provide bathroom access for transgender workers.

President Obama has launched the My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit to build on the work of his White House initiative for young men of color.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a case over a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rule on energy conservation.

A former president of Burundi said the peace deal forbids the president to run again and that "[t]here is no reason to destabilize the country."

Muslims in North Texas didn't protest the deadly "Draw Muhammad" cartoon contest, in hopes of minimizing publicity and interest.

Several early media reports indicated that shots had been fired, and police said they had arrested a man with a gun.

The governor nixed a law that would block a potential 2016 campaign from taking donations from firms with N.J. pension business.

China's government is changing its tack on military operations and reclamation efforts in the South China Sea.

Pamela Geller's organization is deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and much of her speech is anti-Islam.

Plant-based food companies have voiced their support for draft dietary guidelines that suggest a diet that is low in red and processed meats.

A test model for healthcare payment pays doctors and hospitals based on the quality, not the quantity, of their services.

The state could become the nation's second to partially decrease its minimum wage after voters approved a hike by referendum.

The U.S. Navy is now escorting both American- and British-flagged vessels along Iran's southern coast after Iranian forces seized a ship last week.

Soofi, 34, was purportedly one of two men who opened fire at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.

Shanghai's Communist Party chief says corruption risks "destroying" the party's credibility.

“The aim is to update reservists about their wartime roles and assignments,” Finland military spokesman Mika Kalliomaa said.

Brian Moore, 25, suffered severe brain injuries after he was shot in the head in Queens Village last Saturday.

The reshuffling comes as President Xi Jinping plans to reduce the number of state-owned enterprises from 112 to 40.

“Unmarried people sitting closely together on a motorcycle is clearly against Islamic Shariah as it could lead to sinful acts,” a local Indonesian lawmaker said.