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Six more clandestine graves have been found in Mexico near the town where 43 students allegedly were abducted by local police working for a drug gang.

The death toll from unseasonal snowstorms and avalanches in Nepal that trapped dozens of trekkers on the slopes of the Himalayas has risen to 27, with 70 more still missing, Nepalese authorities say.

The Justice Department says it has begun a review of police department procedures in Beavercreek, Ohio, after a grand jury decided not to indict officers in the fatal shooting of a black man in a Wal-Mart store.

The Federal Reserve’s policy makers just eyeballed the economy, and saw nothing new.

Two more players were benched by NFL teams on Wednesday over allegations of domestic violence.

In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge on Thursday said BP acted with gross negligence in relation to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and consequent oil spill.

A pretty terrifying drama is unfolding in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks: An albino cobra is on the loose and authorities say it may have already bitten a dog.

The sinkhole that swallowed up eight cars at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kent., in February quickly became a favorite exhibit for museum visitors, but that’s not enough to head off a decision to fill in the 60-foot wide, 40-foot-deep orifice in the floor.

Russian troops are entering Ukraine — this much is known — but whether they are mounting a “full-scale invasion,” as one Ukrainian official told CNN, or are mistakenly crossing over, as Moscow itself claims, is uncertain.