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Vietnamese dissident recounts forced deportation to France June 25, 2017 | 8:49 PM

UK: All samples from high-rise towers fail fire safety tests June 25, 2017 | 7:14 PM

UK: 6 hurt as vehicle strikes people at Muslim prayer event June 25, 2017 | 9:33 AM

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell leaves the chamber after announcing the release of the Republicans' healthcare bill which represents the party's long-awaited attempt to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017.

10 things to know for today June 23, 2017 | 6:15 AM

Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison, where he said he was beaten with wires and wooden clubs and given electrical shocks, in this May 8, 2017 phot in Aden, Yemen. Habib was detained for weeks after Emirati-backed forces hunting for al-Qaida members raided his family’s businesses, arresting him and several of his relatives. Habib’s father, like an unknown number of other detainees, has been sent to a base of the United Arab Emirates across the Red Sea in Eritrea.

10 things to know for today June 22, 2017 | 6:00 AM

Karen Handel makes a heart symbol while making an early appearance to thank her supporters after the first returns came in during her election night party in the 6th District race with Jon Ossoff on Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Atlanta.

10 things to know for today June 21, 2017 | 5:45 AM

Mike Miller, an air conditioning repairman, watches as a crane lifts a broken unit from a rooftop in Phoenix Monday, June 19, 2017. Repairmen are constantly on call in the summer, as temperatures in the Phoenix metro area rise to nearly 120 degrees.

10 things to know for today June 20, 2017 | 5:50 AM

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier speaks as he is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea. More than 15 months after he gave a staged confession in North Korea, he is with his Ohio family again. But whether he is even aware of that is uncertain. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)

US student freed by North Korea in a coma has died at 22 June 19, 2017 | 5:04 PM

Police: Vehicle strikes several pedestrians on London road June 18, 2017 | 8:31 PM

President Macron's party dominates French parliamentary vote June 18, 2017 | 6:30 PM

Search for 7 Navy sailors ends after bodies found on ship June 18, 2017 | 4:48 PM

62 dead in Portugal wildfires; many killed in cars June 18, 2017 | 9:04 AM

FILE - In this April 17, 2017, file photo, U.S. forces and Afghan commandos are seen in Asad Khil village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said June 15, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander-in-chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump’s young presidency.

10 things to know for today June 16, 2017 | 6:30 AM

Russia verifying whether it killed Islamic State leader in airstrike June 16, 2017 | 3:57 AM

FILE - In this April 17, 2017, file photo, U.S. forces and Afghan security police are seen in Asad Khil near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said June 15, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander-in-chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump’s young presidency.

About 4,000 more US troops to go to Afghanistan June 16, 2017 | 3:28 AM

FILE - In this April 17, 2012, photo, James Hodgkinson of Belleville protests outside of the United States Post Office in Downtown Belleville, Ill. A government official says the suspect in the Virginia shooting that injured Rep. Steve Scalise and several others has been identified Hodgkinson.

10 things to know for today June 15, 2017 | 6:09 AM

Smoke and flames billows from Grenfell Tower as firefighters attempt to control a blaze at a residential block of flats on June 14, 2017 in west London.
At least six people were killed Wednesday when a massive fire tore through a London apartment block in the middle of the night, with witnesses reporting terrified people had leapt from the 24-storey tower. / AFP PHOTO / Adrian DENNISADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images

Photos of the massive high-rise blaze in London June 14, 2017 | 8:24 AM

Children tossed from windows in London high-rise blaze June 14, 2017 | 7:54 AM

Smoke billows from a fire that has engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, Wednesday June 14, 2017. Fire swept through a high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday, killing an unknown number of people with around 50 people being taken to hospital.

10 things to know for today June 14, 2017 | 7:31 AM

10 things to know for today June 13, 2017 | 6:32 AM

Putin talks NATO, gay rights in interviews with Oliver Stone June 12, 2017 | 1:18 PM

10 things to know for Monday June 11, 2017 | 9:00 PM

Police: Suspects in Manchester bombing freed without charge June 11, 2017 | 10:25 AM

Trump impeachment is wrong 2018 election message, Democrats say June 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Theresa May's UK election gamble backfires as Tories lose majority June 9, 2017 | 5:59 AM

Despite a temporary suspension of the deployment of Filipino workers to Qatar by the Labor Department on Tuesday, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) queue up at Qatar Airways check-in counter for the scheduled flight to Doha Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay city, southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government temporarily suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to Qatar, fearing food riots and other potential problems amid the diplomatic crisis gripping the tiny Gulf nation, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said.

10 things to know for today June 7, 2017 | 6:12 AM

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JUNE 04: NO SALES, free for editorial use. In this handout provided by 'One Love Manchester' benefit concert Ariana Grande performs on stage on June 4, 2017 in Manchester, England. Donate at www.redcross.org.uk/love (Photo by Getty Images/Dave Hogan for One Love Manchester)

Grande returns to Manchester to honor victims with benefit June 5, 2017 | 9:42 AM

London attack: More detentions in hunt for accomplices June 5, 2017 | 7:38 AM

In this Friday, June 2, 2017, photo provided by Cecilia Wessels via The Canadian Press, Theunis Wessels mows his lawn at his home in Three Hills, Alberta, as a tornado swirls in the background. Cecilia Wessels, who took the image of her husband to show the tornado to her parents in South Africa, said that the twister wasn't as close it appears. (Cecilia Wessels/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian man mows lawn with tornado behind him June 4, 2017 | 10:29 PM

10 things to know for Monday June 4, 2017 | 9:20 PM