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Factory Mishap Paves Street With Chocolate In Germany

A street in a western German town got a repaving worthy of fictional candy maker Willy Wonka when a ton of chocolate flowed out of a factory and solidified.

Beyonce! Hillary! India Revels In A Very Big Wedding

In a season of big Indian weddings, the Wednesday marriage of the scions of two billionaire families might be the biggest of them all.

France Searching For Suspect Who Fatally Shot 3 People, Wounded At Least 11 Near Famous Christmas Market

France is hunting for a suspected extremist who sprayed gunfire near the famous Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg, killing three and wounding at least 11.

Marlboro Maker Places $2.4 Billion Bet On Marijuana

One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is diving into the cannabis market with a $2.4 billion buy-in.

2 US Warplanes Crash Off Japan; 1 Dead, 5 Missing

One of two crew members recovered after two U.S. warplanes collided and crashed off Japan’s coast early Thursday is dead and five others remain missing, the U.S. military said.

Washington Prepares To Give Final Farewell To Former President George H.W. Bush

Prayer and praise are on the agenda at the Washington National Cathedral today as the nation says a final farewell to former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

Back-To-Back Earthquakes Shatter Roads And Windows In Alaska

Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

US Forces: Three American Service Members Killed In Afghanistan

The U.S. military says three American service members have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province.

NASA Spacecraft Lands On Red Planet After Six-Month Journey

A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300-million-mile (482-million-kilometer) journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere.

Mexico To Up Security At Border After Migrants Try To Cross

Mexico looked set to shore up security near its border with the United States on Monday, as police lined up outside a shelter in the city of Tijuana and told Central American migrants they couldn’t walk toward the border area.

Judge Bars US From Enforcing Trump Asylum Ban

A federal judge has temporarily barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.

In Remembering WWI, World Warned Of Resurging ‘Old Demons’

World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve peace solemnly marked the end of World War I’s slaughter 100 years ago at commemorations Sunday that drove home the message “never again” but also exposed the globe’s new political fault lines.

Pentagon Sending 5,200 Troops To Border Week Before Midterms

The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.

Indonesia: No Survivors On Lion Air Jet That Crashed Into Sea Off Jakarta

A search and rescue agency official says he's not expecting any survivors from the Lion Air plane that crashed into seas off Jakarta with 189 people aboard.

Mattis: Military Already Moving Equipment To Southern Border

The U.S. military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with plans to deploy active duty troops there, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday as a caravan of Central Americans slowly heads across Mexico toward the United States.

China Denies Spying on President Trump's Phone, Says It's 'Fake News'

Taking a page from the U.S. president’s own playbook, China on Thursday denounced a U.S. newspaper report that it is listening to Donald Trump’s phone calls as “fake news,” and suggested he exchange his iPhone for a cellphone made by Chinese manufacturer Huawei.

Trump Sends Troops To Border, An Issue That Fires Up Base

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch 800 or more active duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico.