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Preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is a national security interest of both Israel and the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday in calling for continued diplomatic efforts but also pledging that all options -- including a military effort -- remain viable.

The slow-burning Republican presidential nominating process is facing scrutiny and sharp criticism as the increasingly bitter GOP primary fight threatens to drag on into the spring and perhaps the summer

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor endorsed Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential nominee on Sunday.

Bob Greene says the personal and professional integrity his friend brought to his life offer inspiration that remains after his death in a car crash

Mitt Romney picked up two conservative endorsements Sunday to add to victories in three states last week heading into Super Tuesday, the biggest single day of the Republican presidential campaign.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared to gain ground in his power struggle with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as preliminary results came in from parliamentary elections.

Opposition fighters attacked an Air Force intelligence building outside Syria's capital on Sunday and tried to fend off an intense assault on the town of Rastan, said a leader in the Free Syrian Army.

Rescuers combed through mangled wreckage early Sunday searching for survivors after two passenger trains collided in southern Poland, leaving at least 15 dead.

When Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine rocked the political world with her announcement that she would not seek a fourth term in the Senate, she was forthright in expressing her frustration with "an atmosphere of polarization" in politics.

With dozens dead and some communities all but obliterated, residents of the Midwest and South begin the week Sunday assessing the devastation wrought by a series of vicious tornadoes.

Could Presidential Candidate Ron Paul get his first win of the 2012 GOP race on Super Tuesday?

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared victory in the country's presidential election, telling a crowd of thousands near Moscow's Red Square that "we have won" even as the votes were still being counted.

Two Girl Scouts sprang into action when a man stole a cash box containing money from their cookie sales in the Houston area.

New videos posted from the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs suggest a fresh wave of killings by the Syrian military after the fall of the neighborhood of Baba Amr.

A 20-month-old girl is in criticial condition after being found alone, without identification, in an Indiana field after devastating tornadoes ripped through the region.

An EF-3 tornado ravaged Main Street and others in West Liberty, Kentucky, yet officials pointed to the area's strong sense of community in vowing they'd rebuild.

A funeral service took place Saturday for 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor, one of three students killed in an Ohio high school shooting.

Russians voted Sunday in an election that looks likely to return Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president, to the country's top job.

In 1974, a series of powerful tornadoes whipped through Alabama and devastated a small town called Harvest.

When a powerful jet stream bringing in cold northern air collided with a large mass of warm, moist air from the south, the conditions were right for the tornadoes that have left at least 45 dead this week.