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Authorities say search and rescue crews have discovered two more bodies in the debris field of a landslide that ripped down a heavily forested mountainside in southeast Alaska, bringing the death toll to three

Three people have been killed and three more are missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaskan fishing community

The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

The Senate on Monday confirmed former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be agriculture secretary in President Donald Trump's administration as the farming industry looks to Washington for help amid a downturn in the market.

In an impromptu Easter Sunday speech, Pope Francis on Sunday encouraged people to hold fast in their `'fearful hearts'' to faith despite all the wars, sickness and hatred in the world, acknowledging that many wonder where God is amid so much evil and suffering.

Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched for victims in the Black Sea after a Russian military plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from Sochi.

President Barack Obama has designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.

Thick smoke has settled over a wide area of the southern Appalachians, where dozens of uncontrolled wildfires are burning through decades of leaf litter, and people breathe in tiny bits of the forest with every gulp of air.

North Carolina officials say the death toll associated with Hurricane Matthew has risen to 18. Gov. Pat McCrory told a briefing Tuesday afternoon that two people drowned in Robeson County.

A coroner says a 6-year-old boy has died days after he was critically wounded in a school shooting in South Carolina.