Mr. Boehner will step down next month, aides said, throwing Congress into chaos as it tries to avert a government shutdown.

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China decides to end its decades-long policy of allowing couples to have only one child, increasing the number permitted to two.

The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash of a Russian passenger jet in the Sinai over the weekend was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

The Obama administration will reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline that has divided petroleum interests and environmentalists for more than seven years, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

At least 37 people have been killed after blasts hit a Hezbollah-dominated suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials say.

France declares a national state of emergency after at least 128 people are killed and more than 180 wounded in gun and bomb attacks in Paris.

Heavy shooting is heard in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis, as police continue a hunt for those involved in last Friday's attacks.

Malian special forces enter the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, where suspected Islamists are holding dozens of guests and staff hostage.

Police said Friday they were responding to a call of an active shooter in Colorado Springs, Colorado, near a Planned Parenthood facility.

Four police officers were injured after a shooting near a Colorado Springs Planned parenthood facility, police said.

A man and a woman connected to a mass shooting that left 14 people dead and 17 wounded in San Bernardino were killed in a firefight with police officers after a car chase Wednesday, authorities said.

Pictures emerge on Twitter showing The Address Downtown Dubai hotel engulfed in flames. The building that hosts the 5-star hotel is 302 meters tall and is located not far from the New Year's Eve fireworks display.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake has been recorded in North Korea, according to USGS, in the vicinity of a known nuclear site. South Korea has convened an emergency meeting over fears of a possible nuclear test.

"Mission accomplished," Mexico's president said on Twitter. "We have him."

Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday.