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A former peanut company executive has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened dozens more.

Ken Taylor — Canada's ambassador to Iran in 1979 — sheltered a group of Americans in his home in Tehran for three months before helping them escape to safety. He died on Thursday at the age of 81.

This was a high-stakes showdown for both Hillary Clinton and the Republicans leading the investigation into the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission.

Russia opposes the Islamic State, but supports Syria's Bashar Assad. Now Moscow says its military is providing weapons and supplies to Western-backed, anti-Assad forces on the frontlines against ISIS.

The U.S. has always opposed the annual U.N. resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, but it abstained this time. The White House opposes the embargo and has taken steps to ease it.

Care Bears didn't make the cut; neither did Transformers or Uno. But it's a good day for Little People, first produced by Fisher-Price in 1959.

Donald Trump again vows to repeal and replace Obamacare, this time in a policy-laden speech following several days of gleefully endorsing the FBI director's controversial letter to Congress.

Meng Hongwei will lead the global police agency. The move could facilitate China's anti-corruption drive, but rights groups worry that Beijing might use the agency to track down political dissidents.

The endangered Florida panther has bred only south of the Caloosahatchee River since 1973. Now, a female has turned up on the north side, and it could be a good thing for the future of the species.

It's going to happen "soon," President Obama said during remarks at a joint news conference with Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. He said this comes in light of political reforms.