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Anti-apartheid activist and wife of the late Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died Monday at 81. She was renowned for revving up crowds with her fierce speeches denouncing the apartheid system.

The protests and violence were prompted by planned changes to the pension system. The U.S. State Department ordered embassy staff members' relatives to leave the country and curtailed services.

Four people were shot to death Sunday at a Waffle House in Nashville. The toll could have been far higher if a bystander hadn't wrestled the weapon away from the gunman.

The director's recent comments, in which he described police shootings as "murder," have drawn calls for boycotting his films. They also reveal a bitter fault line in 2016: Who supports the police?

Pope Francis spent time with homeless, immigrant and other low-income clients of Catholic Charities on his last day in Washington, D.C., Thursday.

A Christian-run organization in South Carolina is becoming a popular campaign stop for presidential candidates — Fiorina is at least the fifth GOP candidate to visit this year.

The strain of coping with asylum seekers on their joint border is causing Serbia and Croatia to invoke retaliatory frontier restrictions — and recall their bitter political history.

In its season opening production, New York's Metropolitan Opera abandons the tradition of darkening the skin of tenors portraying the title role in Verdi's Otello.

Republican Jeb Bush was the first presidential candidate to campaign at a big SEC football game this season — Georgia vs. South Carolina. But mixing football and politics in the South can be fraught.

Bassist Christian McBride says that making his own album at the storied jazz club was like becoming part of a family. He knew: "We'd better bring it harder than we've brought it anywhere else before."