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A former legislative aide who did prison time for drug and weapons offenses has taken over as secretary of the Pa. Board of Pardons to streamline the clemency process.

It's not just women who are at risk from fake ride-hailing drivers, he said. Men also have been robbed after getting into the wrong car.

President Donald Trump says he's accepted the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Trump announced the resignation in a tweet on Sunday.

Cross-party talks to jumpstart plans for Brexit are expected to resume before the U.K.'s Friday deadline for leaving the European Union.

As more states legalize marijuana, some researchers worry about what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking.

Mulvaney accused Democrats of engaging in a "political stunt" and wanting "attention" after Rep. Richard Neal, asked the IRS to provide six years of Trump's tax returns.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the favorite to win Israel's general election this week but he faces serious corruption charges and a stiff challenger.

The university said on Saturday it shared the "international revulsion" the laws induced and that it would reconsider a 1993 decision to confer the honorary degree.

The pontiff said that "a country that produces and sells weapons has on its conscience the death of every child and the destruction of each family."

The Trump administration says the task is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.

Tensions are rising, fingers are pointing and the search for solutions is becoming increasingly fraught.

Filings in federal court in Springfield, Mass. show the two sides have negotiated a settlement since Cosby went to prison last fall in a separate Pa. sexual assault case.