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A court in Germany ruled that Heckler & Koch broke the law when it allowed some 4,500 G36 assault rifles to reach Mexican states where drug cartel violence had prompted a ban on such deals.

With almost 10,000 stores across the country, CVS says it is already where consumers are. The company is transforming some of its stores and their retail clinics into hubs for a wider range of care.

Over 100,000 people in the continent die each year from foodborne illnesses. A new report looks at the reasons the toll is so high.

In the most highly anticipated college basketball game of the season, Duke star Zion Williamson was injured when his sneaker ripped apart at the seams — an embarrassment for Nike.

The Empire actor has been arrested for falsifying his report to the police. Authorities say Smollett paid two brothers to stage last month’s attack to “further his own public profile.”

Hoda Muthana was 20 when she moved to Syria and started posting ISIS propaganda online. She says she has renounced the group and wants to return home, but the Trump administration refuses to allow it.

The newly-released email shows how Republican candidate Mark Harris sought to court political operative McRae Dowless, who’s now accused of running an illegal absentee ballot scheme.

Following the unsealing of court documents, children’s rights groups are asking the agency to open an investigation into practices that allow such purchases without parental permission.

When Mohammed bin Salman met earlier this week with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the two leaders appeared to avoid touchy subjects such as Saudi support for Pakistan.

As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing nears, some say the site of the first footprints on the moon should be protected. But historic preservation off our planet is unprecedented.

The U.S. Trade Representative has spent his career warning about the problems and perils of global trade. Now, as the chief U.S. negotiator with China, he’s in a position to do something about it.

The annual UCLA study tallies box office numbers and ratings alongside diversity both on and off screen. Today’s “increasingly diverse audiences prefer diverse film and television content,” it finds.

The city sought reimbursement for vehicles it said were damaged by Sandy. But many of them were already “junk” years before the storm, according to a settlement.

The Democratic majority is likely to approved the resolution and then the law says the Republican-controlled Senate would have to consider the measure too.

Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, allegedly wanted to “kill every last person on earth” in a crusade to establish a “white homeland,” according to officials.

President Trump’s former lawyer is scheduled to appear Feb. 27 before the House oversight committee. Members of Congress are expected to ask him about hush money payments ahead of Election Day 2016.

A towering statue depicting the famed embrace between a sailor and a woman in white, celebrating the end of World War II, has become an unwelcome symbol of assault to some.

Russian lawmakers have passed a bill restricting social media and smartphone use by service members.

March 1 “is not a magical date,” President Trump said this week, about his self-imposed deadline when tariffs would spike. Whether a deal will resolve key structural issues isn’t clear.

“The hard-line, the anti-EU awkward squad that have destroyed every leader for the last 40 years are now running the Conservative party from top to toe,” lawmaker Anna Soubry said Wednesday.

His family says the newspaper targeted the student and defamed him for political purposes after the release of a video that appeared to show a standoff between him and a Native American activist.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion and announced it on just her second day back at court after surgery for lung cancer late last year.

The carrier says the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association “has a history of work disruptions.” The union says the airline is “scapegoating” its technicians.

In 1939, an event at Madison Square Garden was billed as a “Pro American Rally.” It was, in fact, a rally in support of Hitler and fascism.

The activist, filmmaker and writer chronicles sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly in the six-part docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, even as new allegations against him surface.

“They said that they were here on a ‘government mission,’ ” Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles told NPR from Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says many groups are driven by white supremacist ideology and the “hysteria over losing a white-majority nation.” Critics accuse the group of overblowing the threat.

Five books remain in the running: Tommy Orange’s There There; Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage; David Chariandy’s Brother; Jennifer Clement’s Gun Love; and Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

American Catholics have become disappointed as Pope Francis described the meeting as featuring “prayer and discernment” — hardly an ambitious vision for what could have been a momentous event.