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Biden appeared stunned at the honor, as Obama called him ‘an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary career in public service.’

Hillary Clinton said on Monday that her husband shouldn’t have to step down from the charitable foundation he heads until after the election in November, if she wins.

‘I’d like to make one thing very clear,’ said Brown. ‘Muhammad Ali loved people.’

President Barack Obama, speaking in the Philippines on Wednesday, took shots at politicians back home who are trying to close America’s borders.

“Is a child anywhere on Earth safer now that a pope, for maybe the seventh or eighth time or ninth time, has briefly chatted with abuse victims? No,” said SNAP’s director.

Universal Pictures says reports it is upping security at theaters showing the gangster-rap biopic “Straight Outta Compton” are not completely true.

Former football player and veteran sports journalist Frank Gifford has died, his family announced on Sunday. He was 84.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called for prayers for the families of the movie theater shooting victims. Three people were killed, including the gunman — who police said shot himself — and seven injured in the shooting Thursday in Lafayette. “This is an awful night for Lafayette. This is an awful night for Louisiana. This is an awful night for the United States. But we will get through this,” Jindal said at a late-night news conference. He said he’ll be meeting with the families of the victims. L…

Attention has been drawn to the “official” Twitter account under the name @ElChap0Guzman, which has over 300,000 followers.

Is second of three required votes before sending the bill to the South Carolina House.

President Barack Obama stressed that the U.S. still has cards to play if the Iran nuclear deal doesn’t work out.

This California toddler is certainly going to be a cat person for the rest of his life.

The young man who killed two skate store employees and then shot himself inside a shopping mall wrote about killing people in his journal and said he was ready to die, Maryland police revealed Wednesday. Howard County police released the details of Darion Aguilar’s journal through their Twitter account. Investigators say the 19-year-old Aguilar killed Brianna Benlolo, 21, of College Park, Md., and Tyler Johnson, 25, of Mount Airy, Md., in a Zumiez skate store at the Mall in Columbia and then to…

That gull has some gall. Showing no respect for the Holy See at all, a group of other birds swept in and attacked two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis on Sunday. As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, a seagull and a crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window. One dove lost some feathers as it broke free from the gull. But the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove. God only knows w…

Dramatic new photos taken following the deadly siege at a Kenyan mall last week reveal more of the destruction Somali terrorists left in their wake after killing 67 people on what began as an ordinary day of shopping. The powerful images from inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi, some obtained within the past 24 hours, are a distressing reminder of the violence that was let loose on the unsuspecting patrons when militants with the al Qaeda-affiliated terror group al Shabaab stormed the building…

People in two states took shelter amid wailing warning sirens Sunday as tornadoes touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma as part of an extreme weather system plowing through the nation’s midsection. The system, which stretched from North Texas to Minnesota, also heaved hail -- dime- to softball-sized -- as well as heavy rainfall. Near Oklahoma City, a half-mile-wide tornado was reported, prompting an an unusually blunt alert from the Weather Service: “You could be killed if not underground or in…

The King has left the country. Yugoslavia’s last king, Peter II Karadjordjevic, who died in the United States in 1970, was taken to Serbia Tuesday, thus removing the only European royal to be buried on American soil. The former ruler had fled the Nazis at the start of World War II. He decided to stay in the U.S. when Communists took over Yugoslavia at the end of the war. He died in exile at the age of 47 and had been buried at the Serbian Orthodox Church monastery in Libertyville, Ill.