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Since the 1960s, Linus has spent a night in his sincere little pumpkin patch waiting on the Great Pumpkin to deliver toys in the special Peanuts broadcast of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." On Tuesday night, Linus will make his annual wait on ABC News 4 at 8 p.m.

Teamed up with paramilitary forces, Iraqi government troops on Tuesday drove Islamic State militants out of a key oil refinery town north of Baghdad, a government spokesman said.

Even before the film's release, Hollywood director Michael Bay's new action movie is stirring controversy among government officials and residents of Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and the birthplace of...

A rental company in Orlando, Florida, is offering "halal vacation homes" with curtained pool decks and rooms with prayer mats and copies of the Quran. A British company's app lists gourmet restaurants serving halal...

Pilots for FedEx Corp. have voted to approve a six-year contract that includes pay raises, according to their union.

A large French bank has agreed to pay more than $787 million to settle legal problems stemming from U.S. sanctions violations, officials announced Tuesday.

Visitors to Rome can now see the Eternal City as the ancient Romans did, thanks to a restored, seven-level ramp that leads from the Roman Forum up to Palatine Hill and delivers a spectacular view over the ancient city.

The State Department is urging the United Arab Emirates to ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings amid reports the country has held a prominent activist for the last two months.

U.S. Education Department officials are placing new limits on federal student aid administered by struggling for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services, which serves about 50,000 students in 27 states.

Seven people were injured on Tuesday in in clashes between police and demonstrators against a constitutional referendum to allow Republic of Congo's longtime president to run for a new term, said a hospital official.

Mali's government says that a school has reopened after three years in Kidal, a northern town that was previously held by Islamic extremists and is now administered by Tuareg separatists.

A vast workshop that upgrades warplanes of the kind Russia is using in Syria is this town's lifeblood, and support for the Syria campaign is strong.

A mother and boyfriend charged in the death of a 2-year-old girl whose body washed up on a Boston Harbor beach can have their own autopsy conducted on her remains, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The White House is threatening to veto Senate legislation cracking down on "sanctuary cities" that shield residents from federal immigration authorities.

Apple Inc. says it has 15 million users on its streaming-music service, including 6.5 million paying subscribers.

Lamar Odom left a Las Vegas hospital and is now in the Los Angeles area to continue his recovery a week after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel, a family representative said Tuesday.

A man stabbed and slashed two Detroit emergency medical technicians early Tuesday, leaving them with "horrific" injuries before he fled the scene, a fire department official said.

In California's drought, the struggling monarch butterfly may have found a sprinkling of hope.

Grand juries, panels of residents that decide if someone should be charged with a crime, have been part of the American legal system since the country was founded. Defense attorneys, bar associations and, increasingly,...

A man in Old West attire drew a revolver, fired a series of shots, and his nemesis fell to the ground with a gunshot wound.

The European Union, the world's No. 3 greenhouse gas polluter, says its emissions fell 4 percent last year, meaning the 28-nation bloc has already surpassed its target for 2020.

Expedia's online travel sites are introducing tools designed to show the true cost of flying.

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer The Colts' attempt to fool the Patriots with a fake punt Sunday night only made Indianapolis look foolish.

The British Open is heading across the Irish Sea for the first time in nearly 70 years, with Royal Portrush announced Tuesday as the 2019 venue for golf's oldest major championship.

Oscar Pistorius spent Tuesday at his uncle's mansion after being moved from jail to house arrest, but the former track star faces another legal challenge next month when prosecutors argue at an appeals court that he...