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Donald and Melania Trump were feted at their inaugural balls by the Rockettes and by singer Tony Orlando, who sang his famous "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." At the Trumps' final stop, the "Salute to Our Armed Services Ball," the evening began with a solemn prayer and a moment of silence in honor of soldiers killed in the line of duty.

A former Army infantryman on Friday told two Westmoreland County judges that a drug addiction he developed after he was refused treatment at veterans hospitals led him to a role in selling heroin that caused a friend's death and to nearly kill a man in a bar fight.

Police say the death of a 86-year-old man found in his apartment in Fayetteville was a homicide.

An Afghan official says four Taliban have been killed and two insurgents, with suspected ties to the jihadist group the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, arrested in a raid in northern Afghanistan.

The Navy this fall will start issuing flame-resistant uniforms to sailors at sea that are more comfortable and lighter-weight versions of the coveralls sailors have worn aboard ships the past few years.

South Korean prosecutors on Saturday arrested President Park Geun-hye's culture minister and her former top presidential adviser over allegations that they blacklisted artists critical of the government.

More than 20 people escaped injury when a flood swept cabins and vehicles down a coastal canyon as the second in a trio of storms drenched California with heavy rain and brought more snow to the mountains.

The new president delivered an inaugural address Friday that was straight from his campaign script — to the delight or dismay of different subsets of Americans.

President Donald Trump's inaugural speech promised "America first" policy, but offered no specifics about America's place in the world. A look at some reactions from around the globe.

A day after self-described anarchists created chaos, thousands of women are descending upon Washington for what is expected to be a more orderly show of force on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency.

A school shooting that left one student hospitalized and others scrambling out classroom windows could have been far worse if not for the heroics of staff members who stopped the shooter and had him pinned down when police arrived, authorities said.

Italian police say 16 people died when a bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona.

Authorities say a bomb exploded in a market in a northwestern tribal region in Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, killing at least eighteen people and wounding 51.

A bomb exploded Saturday in a market in a northwest tribal region that borders Afghanistan, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50, officials said.

Weeks after Veterans Day, someone steals the American flag and the banner for the U.S. Marine Corps at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens in Macon, Ga.

Deandre Terrell Chapman was accused of sexually abusing a girl between the ages of 12 and 16 years old while he was living at Fort Bliss, according to a federal indictment.

The Interior Department was ordered Friday to shut down its official Twitter accounts -- indefinitely -- after a National Park Service employee shared two tweets that noted President Donald Trump's relatively small inaugural crowds compared to the numbers former president Barack Obama drew in 2009.

Walgreens has agreed to pay $50 million to the federal government and states to settle allegations that it illegally gave discounts to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to encourage them to fill their prescriptions at Walgreens.

The recommended addition to the growth policy, which came from a recently completed Joint Land Use Study that looked at how military operations affected nearby civilian areas, will go to the county commission for approval.

An NCIS spokesman confirmed last year that the department was investigating John Shannon Simpson's charity. He could face a charge of Stolen Valor, a federal offense for making money off a lie about your military record.

Hours after delivering a stinging rebuke of the political status quo in his inaugural address, Trump sat at the president's formal desk in the Oval Office as he signed the order that was aimed at "minimizing the economic burden" of the "Obamacare" law.

Charles Amos Wilson, 30, a support member of the 461st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, is charged with premeditated murder and death of an unborn child.

A proposal in Washington state would allow military members and their families to get out of contracts for gym memberships, internet service and cable TV when they have orders to move or deploy.

The court appearance came hours after Guzman's Thursday night extradition from Mexico, where he had become something of a folk hero for two brazen prison escapes.

Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh will step down and leave the country, Mauritania's president said early Saturday, while Gambia's new president declared that "the rule of fear" in the tiny West African nation had ended.