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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

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Breana Lawson thought she was safe with her five children on a highway near Lumberton.

While the U.S. brings home more Olympic gold than any other country, many, if not most, American school kids wouldn't even bring home a tin, if there were such a low-ranking medal.

It's not a new Cold War. It's not even a deep chill. It's an outright conflict.

The Philippines will not break its military alliance with the US, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday.

John Podesta's Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday, according to a campaign spokesman, prompting the campaign to inform the social media site of the breach.

Still dripping wet from the neck-high floodwater that destroyed her home, Joni Gaddy shivered and wept as she recalled the alligators swimming outside her house.

Patty and Jerry Wetterling spent more time looking for their son than they spent raising him.

Investigators believe a plane crash that killed a student pilot was intentional, a federal official said Wednesday.

Speaker Paul Ryan is facing backlash from House Republicans over his flap with Donald Trump — and his own job may be on the line.

Perhaps the Flying Dutchman is haunting the Great Lakes for Halloween this year?

Embattled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will retire effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday, marking a stunning downfall for one of the banking industry's most powerful figures.