REPUBLICANS PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CRUZ WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, one of the Republican Party's most conservative members, announces he is running for the party's 2016 presidential...

France's governing Socialists never expected to do well in Sunday's first-round local elections, and their strategy worked just as planned: Their conservative rivals took first place. Before the...

AIRPORT SHOOTING KENNER, Louisiana (AP) — A machete-wielding man who was shot during a bizarre rampage at New Orleans' international airport died Saturday afternoon, shortly after...

Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family were killed early Saturday when a fire tore through their Brooklyn home after they had gone to bed, a tragedy that authorities believe was caused by a...

The son of a Mexican wrestling legend died early Saturday from a blow suffered in the ring, the Baja California state prosecutor's office said. Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, known as Hijo del Perro...

A man sprayed wasp killer and swung a machete at federal security agents and passengers at the New Orleans international airport before an officer shot the man several times as people frantically...

Pope Francis, visiting Italy's impoverished south, has told Neapolitans to resist exploitation by Mafia dons and seek the dignity of honest work. On a day trip Saturday to Naples, Francis spoke...

The gruesome case of a woman accused of cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and removing her unborn baby girl is reviving a highly-charged debate in the U.S. over when a foetus can legally be...

WHO-BUNGLING EBOLA GENEVA - In a delay that some say may have cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until last...

Pope Francis says nothing can justify the use of the death penalty and there is no "right" way to humanely kill another person. Francis outlined the Catholic church's opposition to capital...