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BEIJING (AP) -- China's environmental ministry said Tuesday that an unspecified number of companies had violated measures meant to reduce smog during a period of particularly noxious pollution in the country....

Parts of the South are bracing for more rain Tuesday, a day after severe storms killed four people in Alabama....

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish media on Tuesday ran a "selfie video" of a man they say is the gunman who killed 39 people, most of them foreigners, at an Istanbul nightclub....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The decorative clock bearing the name of America's incoming 45th president has yet to start at the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, but the developers behind the project already are counting the money they've made....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in at noon Tuesday, setting off an aggressive campaign by Republicans who control the House and Senate to dismantle eight years of President Barack Obama's Democratic policies....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The Latest on severe weather in the South (all times local):...

A powerful storm system that moved across the South on Monday killed four people in Alabama and left a trail of damage over several states, officials said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Monday voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers after several bribery and corruption scandals sent members to prison....

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Jorge Alves usually sharpens the Carolina Hurricanes' skates. Lately, the team's equipment manager has been lacing up his own....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- After a judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof is competent to represent himself, the same jury that last month unanimously found him guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will return to court to begin contemplating his punishment....