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Firefighters confronted the forest fires in the country’s southeast over the weekend. Most had been extinguished by Sunday, but dry and windy conditions persisted.

Senator Steve Daines said in an interview that in meetings with Chinese officials, he called for talks between President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

The United States slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the World Happiness Report, in part because more Americans are eating alone. Once again, the Finns came out on top.

In light of recent American foreign policy decisions, many U.S. travelers are concerned about how they will be perceived abroad.

Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about their journeys, until recently.

For two months, a cease-fire spared Palestinians the grim task of identifying bodies. With Israel resuming its assault, they are back at it.

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it.

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing that set off a massive refugee crisis.

Audio, a photo, medical reports: The truth may be out there, but when it comes to the health of the pontiff, many people prefer more fanciful tales.