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Gidget the Taco Bell dog was, in many ways, the Michael Jackson of the Mexican fast food-endorsing chihuahua world.

The similarities are remarkable. Both were megastars. Both brought joy to an otherwise miserable world.

Police are investigating multiple shootings reported at a Texas Southern University event.

It was the latest in a flurry of attacks that, though relatively small, have killed or wounded scores in the last week.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached two solemn milestones Monday: July has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in ...

A civilian helicopter crashed at southern Afghanistan's largest NATO base Sunday, military officials said. Russia's air transportation agency reported 15 people died.

The world’s oldest man, the 113-year-old World War I British veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday after spending his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict.

A second worker died Friday after the roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in the French port city of Marseille, officials said.

Police say 10 climbers have died on two mountains in northern Japan.

One person was killed Thursday when a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in Marseille, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.

The eldest daughter of a Florida couple police say were murdered last week says she is shocked at the brutal killings that left her and 16 other siblings parentless. Seven suspects, including a ...