Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization forces fire toward positions in the Islamic State group-held town of Besher, Iraq. Syria, Russia and a U.S.-led international coalition have been bombing…
BRUSSELS – The terrorists who carried out the March 22 attacks on the Brussels airport and metro had initially planned an attack on France instead, the Belgian federal prosecutor announced…
Explosions and a massive fire swept rapidly through the Puttingal temple complex about 3 a.m. in the village of Paravoor, killing 102 people and injuring 380 others, officials said. Scores…
Document offers insights on war with France
Social network trying to get users to post more about their lives
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is joined by Erica Garner as he speaks during a campaign event at the Apollo Theatre on Saturday in the Harlem neighborhood of…
Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and senior United Nations official, speaks during an interview in New York on Monday. For the first time in the 70-year…
A man cycles past a Polish Specialities shop in London on Tuesday. Britain’s dynamic economy has attracted more people from Poland than any other EU country, and they worry that…
HONOLULU – Three men had left just hours earlier when a large wave capsized their 19-foot skiff on Monday night. They swam through two miles of dark water before finding…
Tech. Sgt. Steven Bellino was facing a disciplinary hearing
Half of those polled happy with president’s job performance
In this Belgian Federal Police handout picture, the third suspect of the recent attack on Brussels airport is shown during his escape from the airport after the blasts. After nearly…
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. – A police officer fatally shot a developmentally disabled woman inside a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart after she refused to drop a hatchet she had grabbed from a…
A monsoon destroyed part of their hospital on a South Pacific island. They were swamped with the sick and wounded near the front lines. A disease outbreak killed colleagues. Yet…
The 83-year-old Campbell, California, woman recently attended a ceremony where participants unveiled a study of the short-lived internment camp at what is now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. Archaeologists working…
GOP’s presidential nominee could be determined by a few uncommitted delegates
Say vehicles pose threat to other drivers
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX has resumed space station deliveries for NASA, launching the first inflatable room ever built for astronauts. And in a double triumph, the company also successfully…
Italian envoy recalled to discuss death
Clinton This is not a normal year. Fifty-five percent of Americans say they have a negative opinion of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the latest AP-GfK poll. Bu that’s not…
More college police units are starting to use rifles
BEIRUT – A senior Egyptian al-Qaida figure fighting in Syria was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week, the latest to be killed in such attacks in Syria, a…
Former Ronald Reagan International Fan Club president Zelda Multz, 89, exchanged letters with Ronald Reagan for 40 years after she first wrote him while he was a young actor. She…
The University of Texas tower is darkened in honor of student Haruka Weiser, 18, in Austin, Texas. Weiser, a first-year University of Texas dance student whose body was found near…
Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is considering opening smaller military outposts in Iraq to provide support to Iraqi troops battling Islamic State forces in the country.Jonathan…
The testy exchanges underscored the heightened stakes for both sides as the race turns to New York, where Sanders hopes to turn his recent winning streak into concrete momentum toward…
The 11.5 million documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca showed it helped thousands of individuals and companies set up shell companies and offshore accounts in low-tax havens. Because…
Plenty, 7 out of 10 Americans say in poll about presidential candidates
CHICAGO – President Barack Obama accused Senate Republicans on Thursday of jeopardizing the “integrity of the judicial branch” by refusing to consider his “extraordinary” nominee to the Supreme Court. Holding…
