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

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.

"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."

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.

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

A new industry report says “nothing on the horizon” provides hope that newsstand sales will make a comeback.

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.

With the marijuana industry's lack of banking access becoming a public-safety issue, it is beginning to explore new options.

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

Priced at $130 million, the weapons should help the UAE better counter the threats by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter calls Saturday for a diplomatic solution to the increasingly militarized dispute over control of the South China Sea.

Demonstrators showed up at a planned "Draw Mohammad" contest and anti-Islam rally in front of a Phoenix mosque, only to be met by members of a "Love Rally."

The U.S. military said on Friday it discovered even more suspected shipments of live anthrax than previously thought, both in the United States and abroad, and ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the bacteria.

The cyber virus attack was carried out five years ago, but the U.S. did not achieve the success it did against Iran's nuclear weapons program.

A Rasmussen survey found that 53 percent of Democrats favor letting undocumented immigrants vote if they pay taxes and can prove they live in the U.S.

An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

"Today's news is further evidence that President Obama seems more interested in capitulating to our adversaries than in confronting them," Bush said.

Economists are looking ahead to next week’s release of the U.S. jobs report for May.