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PARIS (AP) — French authorities have honored a Mali-born employee who saved lives at the kosher supermarket attacked by terrorists as a hero and granted …

By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s powerful Shiite Houthi rebels shelled the residence of the country’s embattled president Tuesday and simultaneously swept into the …

By JON GAMBRELL and MARI YAMAGUCHI   CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages Tuesday unless they receive $200 …

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described days …

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON —  The new 114th Congress counts more minorities and women than ever, although lawmakers remain overwhelmingly white and male …

Fairfax, Va. —  Twenty-five state attorneys general joined Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning in filing a brief supporting the National Rifle Association in Jackson v. San Francisco. This case …

French citizen Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, sits inside the courtroom before his trial in the town of Haskovo, Bulgaria on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Bulgarian authorities said Tuesday Jan. 13 they have arrested a French citizen believed to have links to one of the Kouachi brothers. Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, was arrested under two European arrest warrants, one citing his alleged links to a terrorist organization, and a second for allegedly kidnapping his 3-year-old son and smuggling him out of the country.

These remarks are from Attorney General Eric Holder on the occasion of John Conyers’ elevation to Dean of the House of Representatives. WASHINGTON, D.C. —    …

By ALLEN G. BREED FERGUSON, Mo. — It’s doubtful they were aware, but the rioters who torched Juanita Morris’ dress shop had strayed a couple …