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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and 40 people from his staff heard about the plane's problems when they were checking out of their rooms.

Twenty eight professors from Harvard's law school said in an open letter that the new policy lacked "basic elements of fairness and due process."

Merkel asked European Union leaders to consider the nervousness in financial markets about signs of a global slowdown.

Nurse Amber Joy Vinson contracted the disease while treating another Ebola patient, who eventually died, at a Dallas hospital.

Leung Chun-ying told reporters that he wanted to work with protesters, but that China's decision on the city's elections could not be changed.

This is the second time in less than a month that the two countries have traded hacking claims.

Airports in the U.S., U.K., and Canada have started screening people at airports as a precautionary measure.

Itu Aba, also known as Tai Ping, is the only island in the potentially energy-rich Spratly islands large enough to accommodate a port.

Militants of the Islamic State group, who had, earlier this week, captured nearly 40 percent of Kobani, have been pushed back.

Hundreds of demonstrators crowded around a city police station to file allegations of police brutality Wednesday night.

Twitter users called for nurse Amber Joy Vinson to be killed because she flew from Cleveland to Dallas after treating Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.

Unseasonably bad weather resulting from a recent cyclone caused avalanches and a blizzard in a region popular with tourists.

The FBI warned U.S. businesses that hackers it believes to be backed by the Chinese government have recently launched attacks on American companies.

The CDC has reportedly compiled a no-fly list of people who have been exposed to the deadly virus.

A group representing state pension officials says the credit rating agency has created the perception of a pension shortfall crisis.

The president said the outbreak is a "national security threat" and that "the procedures and protocols that are put in place must be followed."

American hospitals are shockingly unprepared to treat Ebola patients, nurses from across the United States said Wednesday.

The first ship with Kurdish oil from the Ceyhan pipeline sails into a snag: No one knows who is going to buy the crude.

The Fed's compilation of anecdotal reporting found that businesses expect consumer spending to improve through the year.

The federal budget deficit is at its lowest since President Obama took office.

Nurses make up one of the largest sectors of the nation's workforce, and are at the front lines of the Ebola outbreak, which has claimed 4,447 lives in just two months.

Evidence that ISIS used chemical weapons against Kurds may mean that the terror group can add a new threat to its arsenal.

The U.S.-led air campaign has tightened its focus in recent days after closer coordination with Kurdish ground forces in Kobani.

President Obama had planned to speak at a fundraiser for Senate Democrats in New Jersey, and then headline a rally in Connecticut.

Friends of Ken Tsang, the social worker whose beating by Hong Kong police went viral, say he's now "detained."

For the first time in decades, the most populous Arab nation is intervening in a conflict outside its borders.

Protesters arrested in a crackdown early Wednesday detailed allegations of physical abuse against Hong Kong police.

The vice president has developed a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth.

BBC Global News director Peter Horrocks said it appeared to be "deliberate censorship."