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Diplomats from around the world are gathering at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday to decide whether to permanently remove the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man who killed her failed to eliminate her spirit and her legacy, but some expressed their enduring fear as well as their fury at the man who changed their lives forever.

A plumbing subcontractor who says he is owed nearly $4M for work on the Barack Obama Presidential Center has suspended operations and laid off 25 union workers, weeks after the Chicago campus's star-studded opening.

President Trump's "patience is running out" with Senate Republicans and he wants to see real movement on his effort to require voters to show photo identification, his White House spokeswoman said Thursday.

Teams searching the rubble of last week's landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing found three additional bodies in recent days, bringing the death toll to 11 with 50 people still missing, Chinese authorities said Thursday.

"Weird Al" Yankovic on turning down the Riyadh Comedy Festival and a seven-figure payment: "I don't need to take any amount of money if it makes me feel icky ...

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in nearly 12 months, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers at a time when rising oil prices are already squeezing household budgets.

The federal government loses hundreds of billions of dollars a year to fraud, and most of the largest programs that funnel money through states still lack basic assessments of where that fraud will likely strike, according to a congressional watchdog ...

Paula White-Cain, director of the White House Faith Office, says 344 million people of faith will be persecuted this year around the globe -- a number she said far outstrips things such as heart attacks and cancer deaths.

Actor COLMAN DOMINGO blasts Elon Musk's idea for an AI-generated "Odyssey": "