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CHICAGO - The bitter cold that gripped the Midwest forced commuters to bundle up like polar explorers. By early next week, many of those same people might get by with a light jacket. Just days after t...

TEHRAN, Iran - His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country's shah and forever changed ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Friday kicked off days-long celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchica...

BEIJING - China is greeting next week's Lunar New Year with celebrations and a travel rush that will see an estimated 3 billion trips by people around the country. Thousands of passengers toted bundle...

ATLANTA - Before there was Jared Goff, there was Warren Beatty. Years before Goff or any of today's Rams were born, Beatty had been carried off on his teammates' shoulders to celebrate a Rams title th...

BRUSSELS - Leaders across the European Union offered a united chorus of "No" on Wednesday to Britain's belated bid to negotiate changes to the Brexit divorce deal so Prime Minister Theresa May can win...

WASHINGTON - U.S. and Chinese negotiators are holding high-level talks aimed at settling a six-month trade war that has weakened both sides, shaken financial markets and clouded the outlook for the gl...

WASHINGTON - Democrats in the House offered a border security plan on Wednesday that would not provide a penny for Donald Trump's border wall, ignoring - for now - an early-morning warning from the pr...

NEW YORK - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was portrayed Wednesday in closing arguments at his U.S. trial as a ruthless Mexican drug lord who also became skilled at evading capture and escaping prison becau...

CHICAGO - A blast of polar air enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday, cracking train rails, breaking water pipes and straining electrical systems with some of the lowest temperatures in a generat...