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Florida’s reputation as America’s tightest — and wildest — swing state should stay intact, as a battle over felons’ voting rights seems destined for the courts. At the least, it’s increasingly looking like Florida’s 1.4 million disenfranchised ex-convicts won’t be the potent voting bloc they might’ve been.

One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in Saudi Arabia Sunday evening, the Saudi military said, as the U.S. secretary of state was on his way to the country for talks on Iran.

Sudan’s protest movement accepted an Ethiopian road map for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country’s military rulers.

An opposition party candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, won a second victory in the do-over race for Istanbul mayor, despite a determined effort by Turkey's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to keep the seat in the hands of the ruling party.

Opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu declared victory in the Istanbul mayor’s race for a second time Sunday after the government-backed candidate conceded defeat in a high-stakes repeat election.

A teen who fatally stabbed a Kaneohe Bay Marine during an attack by 15 youths in the early morning hours of Oct. 21, 2017, in Waikiki pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter Friday and will serve no more than 20 years in prison.

The U.S. Census Bureau is using aerial images of rural communities and hard-to-reach areas to verify addresses and to determine where to send workers to ensure everyone is counted, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said.

The third week in June, 1994 began as any other at Fairchild Air Force Base. It was warm and sunny, with the base preparing for an open house the following Sunday. It ended with the base hospital closed, walls scarred from bullets and floors stained with blood. The burnt wreckage of the base’s last B-52 was scattered near the runway.

More than half a dozen parents and former school employees described disturbing behavior involving teachers at three DODEA schools in Europe. Their allegations include educators berating and mocking second graders, calling a kindergartner by a racist term and locking a special needs fourth-grader out of the classroom.

Iran is set to breach a cap on its enriched-uranium stockpile within days, potentially pushing its conflict with the U.S. into a dangerous new phase.

Taylor Hudson, 35, was an idealist raised in Pasadena, Calif., a lanky college dropout and ironworker kept out of the Marines because of a wrist tattoo he unsuccessfully tried to burn off with battery acid. Kevin Howard, 27, was his opposite: short, with a blond crew cut and tattoos up to his eyebrows.

A Blessing of the Bikes ceremony for motorcycle enthusiasts became a grief-filled memorial Sunday as hundreds converged to mourn seven bikers killed in a devastating crash involving members of a motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses.

A Blessing of the Bikes ceremony for motorcycle enthusiasts became a grief-filled memorial Sunday as hundreds converged to mourn seven bikers killed in a devastating crash involving members of a motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses.

Motorcyclists and military veterans mourned Sunday as authorities sought help in determining why a pickup truck collided with a group of bikers on a rural highway, killing seven of them.

Gun silencers like the one used in a recent lethal shooting in Virginia Beach would be banned under legislation that U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey introduced Friday.

Cambodian rescuers combing through the rubble of a collapsed seven-story building recovered the bodies of 15 construction workers and pulled out 24 injured, as authorities questioned four Chinese who were involved with the project.

It was a sultry early summer evening in the Istanbul neighborhood of Carsamba, a traditional stronghold of Turkey’s ruling party, and the locals were gathered around a big open-air screen, sipping tea and watching a debate between candidates vying to be the city’s next mayor.

What Sanders offers as forward-looking socialism is a warmed-over version of what President Franklin Roosevelt advocated 75 years ago.

President Donald Trump has signaled what he wants from Iran: a new nuclear deal rather than war. But the U.S.'s so-called maximum pressure campaign of sanctions – alongside a carrier group and bombers being deployed near the Persian Gulf – means the chances for formal negotiations anytime soon are slim.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will impose major new sanctions on Iran Monday, days after he abruptly called off a plan for airstrikes against the Islamic Republic based on the concept of proportionality after Iran shot down a U.S. Navy drone.