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Areas of downtown Washington are experiencing sporadic power outages Tuesday, including the White House and the Justice, State and Energy departments.

But Beijing rejected a next-door neighbor as a member of the new bank, citing worries about financial transparency.

Rand Paul is running as an outsider even though he's spent four years in the U.S. Senate.

As budget cuts strain IRS programs, poor and elderly filers lose. Tax cheats win.

How one Tunisian rapper went from girls and fast cars to being an ISIS militant in the "caliphate."

The oba, or king, of Lagos threatened the Igbos with death if the ethnic group doesn't vote for the All Progressives Congress candidate on Saturday.

A libertarian and advocate for small government, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign will test the tea party’s influence in presidential politics.

The president is launching an effort Tuesday that joins tech giants with top medical institutions to study how climate change threatens public health.

The submarine is at Russian base around 350 miles from the Russian border with Finland.

Ashby once said that presidential campaigns tended to be about "character assassination."

"Tourism reflects on the country and the people's image," the China National Tourism Administration said.

Although he's running as an outsider, Rand Paul is set to inherit a presidential campaign years in the making — courtesy of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul.

Hundreds of Kenyan students marched Tuesday to honor those killed last week in the attack at Garissa University College in northeast Kenya.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is kicking off his presidential campaign Tuesday in Louisville.

"I personally do not think that NATO plans to attack [Russia], but such an opinion exists in Russia, and we should take it into account. We don’t want any difficulties," the foreign minister warned.

Eight months after Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by a white police officer -- and Ferguson was pushed to a riotous brink -- residents on Tuesday will return to the polls. Black voters are apathetic.

The All Progressives Congress blamed the alleged deaths of their Rivers state members on the Peoples Democratic Party in Nigeria.

The law is widely seen as a revival of the repealed Internal Security Act and will allow officials to detain suspects indefinitely without a trial.

In March, five women activists were detained in Beijing on charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."

Two students were allegedly killed at a school in central Yemen during the Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes on Tuesday.

At least 44 children have been wounded since the fighting began on March 26, but the actual number could be much higher, the report said.

The latest crackdown in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh is part of one of the biggest operations in the country to curb smuggling in remote forests.

PX, used in polyester and plastic bottles, is now a ‘toxic brand’ in China; media blame poor safety and management standards.

The Iranian border guards were allegedly killed in an attack by Pakistan-based militants in the restive Sistan-Baluchistan province.

The Thunder had been accused of reaping over $60 million from illegal, unlicensed and unregulated fishing.

Syrian Islamist militants released nearly 300 Kurds on Monday after holding them hostage for several hours.

The company's CEO said he would be open to expanding the program to cover the costs of master's degrees in the future.

Federal prosecutors have accused four Brooklyn residents with taking part in a plot to support the Islamic State group abroad.

Prosecutors told jurors that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, committed a "bloodthirsty" act, while his lawyers said Monday that he was a "kid."