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News Hour: A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian armed groups has launched an operation to retake the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria, the group said on Sunday. The new...

News Hour: SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday his space launch company is aiming to return its rockets to flight in mid-December following a launch pad accident two months ago. During an interview with...

News Hour: US presidential foes Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump brandished rival visions of America on Friday and the world held its breath as they headed into a fierce final weekend of campaigning. Forecasts based on...

News Hour: The US military confirmed on Friday it had killed Al-Qaeda’s emir for northeastern Afghanistan during an air strike last month, in a major blow to the group as it seeks to re-establish safe havens...

News Hour: Wall Street stocks fell for the eighth straight session on Thursday on US election jitters, while the pound rallied after a British court ruling threw the government’s Brexit plan into doubt. US stocks continued...

News Hour: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off on Thursday in do-or-die North Carolina with dueling rallies in the home stretch of a bitter, hard-fought US presidential race that is tightening by the day. As...

News Hour: Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega looks to be heading for an easy re-election to a fourth term this weekend, with his wife as his running mate. Surveys credit the pair with more than 60 percent...

News Hour: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton launched bitter attacks on each other’s character on Tuesday as a new poll suggested the White House race has tightened in the final week. Trump stormed into Democratic territory...

News Hour: South Korea’s embattled president Park Geun-Hye replaced her prime minister and two other top cabinet members on Wednesday, in her latest bid to contain a damaging political scandal. The move was part of a...

News Hour: The Malian jihadist group Ansar Dine has denied agreeing to a ceasefire with the government, a Mauritanian news agency and the extremist monitoring group said on Tuesday. It follows the announcement on Monday by...