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President Hassan Rouhani earlier gave a speech praising Mohammad Javad Zarif after the foreign minister’s sudden resignation shocked the Islamic Republic late on Monday night
Ministry of Education touched off uproar by instructing school administrators to read declaration to students ending with a campaign slogan used by president
United Methodist Church faces likely surge in defections and defiance after delegates at crucial conference vote to strengthen bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy
Case initially aroused speculation of a manufactured effort to punish the source of leaks about Russian campaign hacking
The House is expected to vote this week on separate bills requiring background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms and extending the background-check review from three to 10 days
Move comes despite calls by health advocates for a tougher standard
The Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement chief is defending the Trump administration's work, despite a report by her own agency that civil and criminal crackdowns on polluters have dropped sharply in the past two years
Noise is most frequent complaints to city's hotline, with many calls about loud sirens that blare 24/7, wake people and cause dogs to howl in unison
Giving patients one germ to fight another may sound radical, but it's part of the race to find novel alternatives when traditional antibiotics fail
Talks over Nicaragua's political standoff are set to resume, with renewed hopes among those who believe they could help resolve nearly year-old crisis
A federal appeals court has cleared AT&T's takeover of Time Warner, rejecting the Trump administration's claims that the $81 billion deal will harm consumers and reduce competition in the TV industry
Fiat Chrysler says it plans to roughly double its hourly workforce in Detroit and its suburbs as part of a major effort to build all-new or next-generation SUVs
US territories including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands asked the federal government for more help to recover from a deadly 2017 hurricane season
Michigan police officer has agreed to dismiss sexual harassment claims against her department in exchange for a six-figure settlement
Move part of promise by congressional Democrats to hold administration aggressively to account over policies on US-Mexico border
President Poroshenko in a statement that the ship's visit was 'an important signal to the Kremlin,' underlining close US-Ukrainian military cooperation
Governor ordered the prison system to come up with a new lethal drug protocol after a federal judge's scathing critique of the first drug in Ohio's method
A simple house in a town on Colombia's border with Venezuela has become a refuge for 40 Venezuelan soldiers who abandoned their posts and deserted
The three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released its opinion Tuesday
Annual survey of human rights in the region said ongoing crackdowns on dissent and civil society 'intensified significantly' in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia
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