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A 72-year-old man was fatally shot early Saturday in his gangway on Chicago's Far South Side, officials said. William Strickland was on his way to dialysis when he was shot in what appeared to be a robbery, police said.

The effects of sequestration may hit all too close to home for some Americans if lawmakers allow the cuts to take full effect later this month.

A fast-moving brush fire forced the shutdown of Interstate 95 and the evacuation of 300 homes in Ormond Beach in central Florida on Saturday, fire officials said.

General Motors hopes to prove its new, seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette has international appeal as it drops the top on the so-called “C7” by introducing the convertible edition at the coming week’s Geneva Motor Show.

CBT: No. 2 Gonzaga looks likely to earn its first-ever No. 1 ranking when the polls come out on Monday after dispatching Portland on Saturday.

Aggressive overfishing threatens to push some shark species to extinction, and a new study puts annual shark deaths at 100 million.

Marco McMillian, a black and gay man, announced in January that he would run for mayor of his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss. Six weeks later, he was dead on a Mississippi River levee.

With sweeping vistas of the sea, tourists flock to Cabrillo, Calif., and other coastal parks to see these gentle giants at a time when, on average, attendance is down and state and national parks are struggling.

Chad's military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Now that they've worked out the orbital path of the meteor that blew up over Russia, scientists are saying that the asteroid behind the blast crossed Earth's orbit regularly for thousands of years.

Analysis: Raul Castro’s recent announcement that he will leave power in 2018, and his appointment of 52-year-old Miguel Diez-Canel as first vice president and his de facto successor, are signs of the glacial pace of political change in Cuba.

These beastly feasts exist somewhere between the hard edge of gunpoint diplomacy and the soft belly of “Man v. Food.”

Syria and Iran on Saturday condemned a move by the United States to give non-lethal aid to rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accusing Washington of double standards.

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Secretary of State John Kerry will stress the importance Egypt achieves political consensus for painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday.