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Here are some of the changes going into effect in the new year.

The United States is deploying soldiers to the Middle East after protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in response to airstrikes in Iraq and Syria conducted by US forces on Sunday.

Joe Biden told voters in New Hampshire on Monday that he would consider choosing a Republican as a running mate, but added, "I can't think of one right now."

Australians are facing a terrifying start to the new year, as bushfires rip through popular tourist spots on the country's southeast coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge on nearby beaches.

A medical emergency resulted in a young girl being declared dead when her flight landed at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday night, authorities said.

Anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Hong Kong over the Christmas holiday, clashing with riot police in malls and busy shopping districts across the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

A typhoon that lashed the central Philippines on Christmas Day has killed at least 16 people and caused damage to homes and tourist areas.

After being destroyed in World War II, Rovaniemi, Finland, successfully reinvented itself as the capital of Christmas.

A leading Christian magazine founded by late evangelist Billy Graham — father of key presidential supporter Franklin Graham — published an op-ed on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office and urging evangelicals not to support him.

With voting almost completely along party lines, the House of Representatives has voted to impeach the president, sending the proceedings to the Senate.

Former Pakistan President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.

Man, what a decade!

A new study shows that the deepest point on land is under the Denman Glacier in East Antarctica. Glaciologists were mapping the area only to find that the trough under the glacier went far deeper than they had imagined.

Three square miles of volcanic rock on the edge of the East China Sea may one day be used as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the United States Navy in the event of war in Asia.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has unanimously agreed to ban Russia from major international sporting competitions — notably the Olympics and the World Cup — for four years over doping non-compliance.

Police said the man repeatedly called KDDI, a Japanese telecommunications operator, and demanded its staff come to him and apologize for breaking the terms of his service contract.

The committee's report serves as the backbone of the Democrats' impeachment proceedings against Trump.

The air conditioner is nearly 100 years old, and yet it hasn't evolved much — the technology is essentially the same as it was the day it was invented.

Scientists have discovered the black hole LB-1, so massive that it shouldn't exist.

The House of Representatives will not get President Donald Trump's financial records for now, the Supreme Court said on Monday.