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U.S. and China weigh nuclear lab tours as Washington accuses Beijing of secret tests

The Trump administration has held discussions with Chinese officials on conducting reciprocal visits to nuclear facilities, according to a U.S. official.

Texas carries out nation's first execution since Christa Pike's failed lethal injection

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. this year and the first since Tennessee's failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike a week ago.

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature

Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for playful, genre-blending works that fuse the classical and the modern.

Cornell gang-rape accuser was 'misled' about criminal investigation, her lawyer says

The woman accusing several men of raping her at a Cornell University fraternity party was "misled" about the status of the criminal investigation in the weeks after she went to police, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Trump interrupted by protesters as he fights to rally Texas voters behind Paxton in U.S. Senate race

President Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation's most populous red state.

Turkey says Mecca pact is purely defensive, will not deploy forces to attack Houthis

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Thursday that the Mecca defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is defensive in nature.

Trump: 'I love Alabama,' but Hurricane Isaias may crash his Tuscaloosa football date

The midterm elections are looming and the first hurricane of the Atlantic Season is menacing the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Isaias is expected to get stronger on its way to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coasts

Isaias surged toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, prompting mandatory evacuations, school closures and local government shutdowns in parts of Florida.

Gruesome injuries throw spotlight on France's policing of high school protests

Beyond physical wounds, the massive use of police arrests and tactics that government critics and human rights campaigners allege have been unnecessarily violent is giving a generation of French schoolchildren - and soon-to-be voters - a real-life education about state power and their rights as citizens, and how the two sometimes clash.

The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego

The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record-long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.

Consumer stocks have been hammered. Here are some opportunities among the casualties

Brand name consumer stocks have been in a slump. Wall Street sees opportunity to pick some up at bargain prices.

Trump awarding medals to Musk, Dell, Nadella and other tech execs at science summit

President Trump is giving awards to a number of top tech executives at a summit on Thursday.