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White House lockdown lifted, armed suspect in custody
The White House was briefly placed on lockdown Friday after a man reportedly brandished a weapon at Secret Service agents on the ...US beats Czech Republic 2-1 to reach semifinals at worlds
The United States reached the semifinals of the hockey world championship on Thursday with a 2-1 shootout win over the Czech Republic. ...Canadian wildfire flareups force more oil region evacuations
Wildfires continued their devastating advance on Tuesday, leading authorities to order more evacuations in Canada\'s oil sands region surrounding the city of ...Trump warns of bad relationship with Cameron
Donald Trump warned Monday he may end up having a bad relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who branded the presumptive ...Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit, highlight nuclear security
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month and become the first sitting U.S. president to do so since World ...Earthlings watch as tiny Mercury sails past the sun
Tiny Mercury, the solar system\'s innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about ...Convoy leads Canada fire evacuees through burning city to safety
Convoys of evacuees stranded by a wildfire raging in and around the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray made their way on ...Raging wildfire forces evacuation of 88,000 in Canadian city
A raging wildfire that forced the evacuation of all 88,000 residents of the western Canadian city of Fort McMurray has destroyed 1,600 ...North Korea sentences US citizen to 10 years in prison for espionage
North Korea on Friday sentenced a detained Korean-American, Kim Dong-Chul, to 10 years hard labour on charges of subversion and espionage, China\'s ...Clashes near Trump rally in California
Some 20 demonstrators were arrested on Thursday outside a Donald Trump campaign rally in southern California, where the Republican presidential front-runner vowed ...