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A man climbed to the top of a nearly 60-story skyscraper in downtown San Francisco, California, on Monday, where he unfurled a U.S. flag and was promptly detained by police.

Six of the suspected gunmen responsible for the killings of 72 migrants in Mexico have been identified, Mexican authorities said Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.

Jefferson Thomas was risking his well-being by leaving an African-American school for Little Rock's all-white Central High School with eight other students in 1957.

Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests.

High winds helped fuel fast-moving wildfires in Colorado and Oklahoma on Monday, prompting evacuations in both states, officials said.

As a 15-year-old, Jefferson Thomas was one of nine African-American students who braved mobs to integrate an all-white school. Thomas died Sunday of cancer at age 67.

Boston police have arrested three suspects who they say stabbed a Domino's pizza delivery man and drove off in his car.

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning that it could endanger American troops.

President Obama rolls out an economic plan this week, but his fellow Democrats are confronting a difficult question: Is it too little, too late?

A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said.

Joran van der Sloot admitted in an interview with a Dutch newspaper that he extorted money from the family of Natalee Holloway, but his attorney in a Peruvian murder case suggested Monday that his client's comments may have been mistranslated.

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet.

Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

Apple may get a nasty surprise this holiday season; rumors are swirling that Google's Andy Rubin is planning on a holiday-season launch for the search behemoth's new music download service.

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.

A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq has left at least one Iraqi military officer and five civilians dead and at least 21 people wounded, authorities said today.

Police asked for help in last month's death of a man who worked for British intelligence and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom.

A hostage situation that lasted about two hours at Fort Stewart, Georgia, ended Monday without injuries, and a gunman is in custody, a spokesman for the Army base said.

He's already suggested installing coin-operated lavatories and selling standing room on flights, so it may not be surprising that the latest idea from the colorful CEO of Ryanair is once again pushing air travelers' buttons.

President Obama is stepping up his efforts to revive the economy. In a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, he'll outline a plan to spend more on roads, railways and runways.