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WASHINGTON - A Republican-led House committee voted on Thursday to hold in contempt of Congress a former State Department employee who helped set up Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonR...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man (all times local): 12:30 a.m. Charlotte police say they don’t plan to forcibl...

WASHINGTON - Americans retreated from home-buying in August, as a worsening inventory shortage appears to be hurting sales and pushing prices higher. Housing has been a bright spot amid weak economic ...

LONDON - A quiz-show champion who appeared on the long-running BBC show “Eggheads” has been arrested over an alleged murder, after writing in a memoir that he might have killed a man in Am...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - A Detroit-area man who served 16 years in prison for killing his first wife was charged Thursday with killing his two children and two stepchildren, and torturing his wife. P...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged lower this week. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declined to 3.48 per cent from 3.50 per cent last week...

JACKSON, Miss. - Police now say they are trying to figure out whether anyone was ever held hostage in a Mississippi house where they’d earlier believed a man was holding more than a dozen people...

CONCORD, Mass. - The founder and namesake of The J. Geils (gylz) Band is facing drunken driving charges in Massachusetts. Police say John Warren Geils Jr. was charged with operating under the influenc...

BAGHDAD - Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and paramilitary forces, Iraqi government troops on Thursday pushed Islamic State group militants from a key town north of the Iraqi capital, days aft...

MOSCOW - The Russian Emergencies Ministry says three people have died when one of its helicopters crashed near Moscow. The Mi-8 helicopter went down during a training mission late Wednesday, killing R...