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WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the U.S. housing bubble peaked a decade ago, soon to burst with far-reaching consequences, the pain was particularly severe for black and Hispanic Americans....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- As South Korea's main spy agency prepares a courtroom defense of its continued detention of 12 North Korean waitresses who had fled from China, Pyongyang is using the women's relatives and colleagues to step up its accusations that they were tricked into leaving their jobs and essentially kidnapped....

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) -- Salam Ashara and his family left Syria in early 2013, when no one expected the civil war in their country to rage for years with no signs of relenting and create the worst refugee crisis since World War II....

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state TV says authorities have disrupted "the biggest terrorist plot" to ever target Tehran....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim any prospects for changes in the nation's laws....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal investigators promised to provide more insight as to what was happening inside the Pulse nightclub after a gunman started a deadly assault that was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history....

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) -- Dustin Johnson had everything going his way Sunday in the U.S. Open....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- LeBron James cradled the shiny gold trophy and struggled to sum up what might be his sweetest championship yet, the one he is so proudly bringing home to his native northeast Ohio just as he promised to do when he returned to the Cavaliers two summers ago....