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Discussing a killing that has caused some to view him with suspicion, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said at the “Davos in the Desert” investment forum that it “cannot be justified.”

Women across India have recently been going public about sexual assault and harassment. Many say they draw strength from the struggle of one woman: Bhanwari Devi.

Karl Racine ordered the probe after the archdiocese released a list of priests “credibly” accused of child sex abuse over a decades-long period.

Jumpei Yasuda was taken hostage by al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, in 2015. Japanese officials say he was freed on Tuesday and is now in Turkey.

“America First” has been a Trump mantra for years. The suggestion that the U.S. has been fleeced by foreigners has been his appeal to all those who find talk of “globalism” unsettling or threatening.

Democrats plan to launch oversight investigations of the Trump administration — a congressional duty that House Republicans resisted.

Heller is considered the most vulnerable Republican in the 2018 midterms. He’s defending his vote on the GOP health care bill and touting a close relationship with the president.

Overdose deaths started to level off near the end of 2017 and are “finally bending in the right direction,” says Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, citing early data.

The storm has been rapidly downgraded after making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. It is forecast to dissipate by Wednesday afternoon.

The drawing was Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET. The odds for holding the winning ticket are about 1 in 302 million.

Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi got whatever he wanted Tuesday night, going 4-5, and pinch-hitter Eduardo Nunez cracked a three-run home run in the seventh inning, putting the Dodgers away.

Two of the most closely watched races in the country have been roiled over alleged voter suppression, racist ads and newly ignited controversies over the Confederate flag and even Hamilton tickets.

A record number of migrant families arrived at the Southwest border over the last year, despite the Trump administration’s effort to deter illegal immigration by separating families at the border.

It’s getting a lot of attention because of its unexpected angles and straight lines. A sea ice specialist explains why it formed this way.

President Trump has been keeping fact-checkers busy with his campaign claims of Middle Eastern migrants and a 10 percent middle-class tax cut.

Eight of the top ten states with the highest suicide rates are in the Mountain West. Grand Junction, Colo. has launched an ambitious effort starting in the schools to try and address the problem.

The national security adviser said the U.S. will leave the INF Treaty “in due course” — and that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to speak directly again next month.

Ari Berman of Mother Jones warns that a Republican strategy to tighten access to the ballot box could have a major impact on the 2018 elections. “It could be tainted by voter suppression,” he says.

The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to a groundskeeper who contracted cancer after spraying a powerful version of the weedkiller Roundup.

The 54-year-old got more than a dozen years after confessing to poisoning baby food with an antifreeze ingredient, putting the jars on store shelves and then trying to extort money from supermarkets.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced this latest killing of one of their employees in the unsettled northeast of Nigeria.

O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, says she has been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.”

Turkey’s leader rejected Saudi Arabia’s claim that the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an accident. He said 18 suspects under arrest in Saudi Arabia should face justice in Turkey.

Court documents, intelligence reports and other official accounts have now created the most comprehensive picture yet of one key aspect of the “active measures” targeting the West.

Uber has helped create about 800 “virtual restaurants” in the U.S. — eateries that only exist online. Uber says its delivery service helps restaurants grow, but some in the industry see downsides.

Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum has been polling just ahead of Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis in Florida. While DeSantis has full Trump support, Gillum draws progressive enthusiasm.

The device was safely detonated by a bomb squad. The case has been handed over to the Joint Terrorism Task Force Division of the FBI.

The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily shield Wilbur Ross from facing questioning under oath in challenges to the 2020 census citizenship question.

Donald Trump once accused Ted Cruz’s father essentially of being linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On Monday, he flew to the Texas senator’s hometown and gave him his full endorsement.

The print, called Edmond de Belamy, is a blurry depiction of what could be a “a man of the church” floating within a gilt frame. In place of the artist’s signature is a math equation.

The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty marked the end of the Cold War. The Kremlin may want to leave the agreement, too.

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it’s not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.