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CHICAGO – The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern U…

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earli…

ABU GHADDUR, Iraq – U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marki…

WASHINGTON – Don’t make things worse.That’s the advice of former U.S. health secretaries of both par…

BOSTON – Supporters of a small, conservative “free speech rally” held Saturday in Boston said that despite being outnumbered by tens of thou…

RIPOLL, Spain – They were brothers and boyhood friends from a town with no unfamiliar faces. They were linked by Moroccan roots and equally …

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Rev. Nelson Johnson needs no reminders of the massacre of five of his labor-activist friends almost 40 years ago – he…

CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan – Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sund…

NORTON, Vt. – It can be slow at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing between Norton, Vermont, and Stanhope, Quebec, where agents have watched m…

MARENGO – Marengo City Council members voted against the new mayor’s recommendation to appoint new legal counsel last week with little discu…

ALGONQUIN – The village of Algonquin has approved a five-year public works contract with International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15…