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While the furloughed federal workers are likely to get back pay, a sandwich shop is not going to get paid for a sandwich not eaten.

At least 19 people have died in protests against the long-time Sudanese president, sparked by the government’s decision to end bread subsidies last month.

Burke Ramsey reached a confidential settlement with network, the production company and several individuals behind a documentary series that claimed he killed his 6-year-old sister when he was 9.

The Department of Health and Human Services confirms the population at Tornillo, Texas, is down from nearly 3,000 adolescents last month to about 1,500. The camp is due to close at the end of January.

A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found a huge leap in the number of black directors behind the year’s biggest films. But its findings elsewhere in Hollywood weren’t so rosy.

Dutch astronaut André Kuipers made the extra-long-distance call by accident, but he was “disappointed” when emergency responders didn’t show up at the International Space Station.

Senior officials at Pacific Gas & Electric are working on a plan to sell off the company’s natural gas division to avert bankruptcy and raise funds to cover huge projected liability costs.

Whelan was born in Canada and has since gained citizenship in the U.S., Britain and Ireland.

Their cause is gender equality. For many of them, the motivation to take part was highly personal.

The 82-year-old lawmaker fended off tough primary and general election challenges in 2014. Some national Republicans hope Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might run for his seat next year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s expletive-laden call to impeach President Trump, and a top committee leader said it’s too early to push for it.

When they run into burning buildings, firefighters get exposed to carcinogens. In many states, laws were passed to protect them if they get cancer. But firefighters often get denied benefits anyway.

Some Asian-American artists are sculpting the dishes of their youth to explore their race and identity. And through Instagram, they’re also connecting with others who yearn for a taste of their past.

The crash near Gainesville involving two semitrucks and several passenger vehicles. The children, who were riding in a van, were part of a church congregation from a small town in Louisiana.

In the days before Christmas, the private data of some of Germany’s most powerful leaders was trickled out “in a kind of Advent calendar,” a German broadcaster reports.

Buddhist militants attacked four police posts in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state on the day the country celebrates its 1948 independence from Britain.