The death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire has grown to 36. Authorities announced the latest tally early Monday, saying they expect the number to rise. Eleven victims have been positively identified, but the names have yet to be publicly released
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced his candidacy for next year's presidential election and said he will step down from his current role. "I want to give everything for France," the 54-year-old said in a speech
A judge handed down a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Georgia man convicted of murder by jurors who believed he had intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die
Disney's Moana topped the domestic box office for the second week in a row, drawing $28.4 million, in a 50% drop from its opening weekend. The film has now earned $119.9 million domestically and $177.4 million worldwide
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has conceded the governor's race, clearing the way for Democrat Roy Cooper to be declared the winner. The concession nearly four weeks after Election Day comes after appeals dried up
Former Vice President Al Gore met with president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, following a meeting with Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka about climate change. “It was a sincere search for areas of common ground," Gore said
Donald Trump has chosen former 2016 rival Ben Carson to become secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump's decision comes as the real estate mogul continues a series of deliberations aimed at forming his administration
Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor, becoming the the first sitting Japanese leader to visit the site of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, which killed more than 2,000 and pulled America into World War II
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s resignation from office on Sunday night after the unexpectedly heavy referendum defeat opens a period of political instability and high risks of market volatility, declaring as winners populist and anti-establishment parties. But what comes next?
The relatives of the nine black churchgoers killed in Charleston last year are bracing for the trial of Dylann Roof, set to formally begin this week. “This nation will get an opportunity to see what racism looks like and sounds like,” one family member said
Almost half of Americans see torture as a useful way of getting information out of enemy combatants during times of war, according to a new survey. Americans' views on the issue of torture differ from those of people in many other countries
A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant injuring no one, police and news reports said
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