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Humanity might well be edging closer to annihilation than ever before.

The chief of US Border Patrol has departed the agency, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Thursday -- the day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders aimed at beefing up border security.

Mexican products have plenty of red, white and blue in them.

In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the origins and evolution of the epidemic that plagued Europe in the Middle Ages.

This is not a drill.

So much for Trump warning of a "big, fat, ugly" bubble. Now that he's in the White House, the new U.S. president is actively cheering on the stock market to go higher -- much higher.

Before he departed office, President Barack Obama encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to form a close relationship with incoming President Donald Trump, according to a British official familiar with their conversations and a former senior administration official.

Greece's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eight servicemen who fled Turkey after an attempted coup last July will not be extradited -- a decision that brought an immediate protest from Turkey.

Doctors in Louisiana removed a rare facial tumor from a Brazilian 3-year-old after her parents took to social media pleading for help.

A skier in Utah managed to come away unscathed after accidentally plunging off a 150-foot cliff.

President Donald Trump called Chelsea Manning an "ungrateful TRAITOR" in an early morning tweet Thursday, the President's first public comments since the former army private and leaker had her sentence commuted by former President Barack Obama.

A Russian aircraft carrier was closely watched and escorted to Russia by UK warships and warplanes after participating in airstrikes in Syria.

What does "Make America Great Again" mean to you? For one Florida-based Muslim group, it's exactly what their faith is all about.

Trump's hope to bring back Mexican auto jobs has a problem - most workers there build parts, not cars.

As he progressed from punchline to primary contender, from frontrunner to nominee, and then from seemingly doomed general election candidate to president-elect, Donald Trump has, for all his idiosyncrasies, offered a remarkably consistent package of promises.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he expects the cost of building a wall along the Mexican border to be between $12-$15 billion.

Think you have a God-given right to be off the day after the Super Bowl?

If the President alienates Muslim Americans, frequent President Donald Trump critic Khizr Khan said he may end up endangering national security.