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After weeks of unchanging front lines, the Iraqi army rolled Tuesday into a southeastern Mosul neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, taking a hospital before meeting stiff resistance, the military said.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, 6 December 2016 – Four years ago, Hurricane Sandy marked many of the children, teachers and families of Cuba for life. Some of them lost everything. Many feared they would relive the experience when Hurricane Matthew – one of the most damaging weather events of 2016 – struck in early October.

WASHINGTON — Congress should act immediately to improve slave-like conditions for hundreds of foreign fishermen working in Hawaii’s commercial fleet, speakers at a congressional forum said Tuesday.

A military prison psychologist has refused to recommend that Chelsea Manning's gender be changed to female in her Army service record, complicating the transgender soldier's quest to wear a feminine hairstyle at the men's prison.

After a U.S. presidential election and Brexit campaign that were tarnished by lies, vicious political attacks and deceptive online news stories, Germany is promising to double down on facts, values and seriousness.

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Presidential electors should not peel away from their Electoral College commitments to vote against President-elect Donald Trump, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said in a Tuesday statement.

"I am not a candidate for president and ask that electors not vote for me when they gather later this month," Kasich said in a statement posted to his Twitter account. "Our country had an election and Donald Trump won."

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It's a rare moment of public reckoning for South Korea's most powerful business leaders and possibly the worst day for Samsung's...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — After weeks of unchanging front lines, the Iraqi army rolled Tuesday into a southeastern Mosul neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, taking a hospital before meeting stiff resistance, the military said.

This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news.

Allstate Corp. said Tuesday that John Dugenske will join the company as chief investment officer in early 2017, overseeing its $81 billion investment portfolio. He was most recently the global head of fixed income at UBS Global Asset Management. Dugenske succeeds Judith Greffin, who announced her retirement in March 2016, a job she held since 2008. Allstate shares are up 14% for the year so far while the S&P 500 index is up 8.1% for the same period.

Bath people, I’m sorry.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By just about any measure, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had as good of an offseason as anyone.

Sherri Papini, a 34-year-old mother, went jogging in her neighborhood on Redding, California, on Nov. 2. When she didn't pick her up her children from daycare that day, her husband know something was very wrong. More than a month later, the story of the abducted mother who was found tied up on the side of a highway on Thanksgiving Day has captivated the nation. Officials have not named any suspects or motive in the case and it's unclear what exactly happened to Papini during the three weeks she went missing.

US President Barack Obama and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi discussed the results of the referendum on constitutional changes in Italy during a phone call on Tuesday, the White House announced in a release after the conversation.

MILLVILLE, N.J. — The Latest on the death of a New Jersey state trooper in a head-on car crash (all times local):

A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday finds that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a pathetic 19 percent approval rating, while a massive 77 percent of his state’s voters disapprove of him.

While it was widely reported that Tesla received $1.3 billion in incentives from the state of Nevada to build its factory east of Reno, the automaker has only received ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — By just about any measure, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had as good of an offseason as anyone.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — By just about any measure, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had as good of an offseason as anyone.

Following the release of his MTV Unplugged in October, Miguel Bosé is hitting the road in 2017 with his Estaré U.S. Tour.  The Spanish singer/...

The injury-plagued Lions are bringing back a familiar face. Joique Bell, a running back who played for the Lions for the last five years, has re-signed with the team today. Bell will provide some depth at running back after Dwayne Washington got hurt against the Saints on Sunday. Bell knows the Lions’ offense and had…

NEW YORK — More than two years after narrowly escaping death in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, comedian Tracy Morgan is ready to give back, and he’s doing it on a huge stage.