ATHENS, Greece – Hundreds of passengers and crew endured a second night of smoke, frigid temperatures and gale-force winds as they waited to be evacuated from a burning ferry adrift…
Veronica Boshen of Allentown, Penn., took part in the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City’s Times Square last year. About half of the respondents in a new poll…
Enthusiasts met over the weekend in the city’s leafy upscale Zamalek neighborhood to check out the latest designs and watch the pros at work at the 2014 Cairo Tattoo Expo.…
It’s possible that a clam shell scratched by Homo erectus might be our oldest-ever example of artistic work.Wim Lustenhouwer/VU University Amsterdam The shell, which was found in Indonesia in the…
When a female mantis is hungry, they will fake fertility and eat their duped mates.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post But when a lady is really hungry, she sometimes throws off fake…
Life could exist, but it wouldn’t be so pleasant without them
Bruce Rickerd hangs up his guitar after a performance of the show “Mystere” in Las Vegas. On Saturday, a Guinness Book of World Records judge was expected to say Rickerd…
White House declines to retaliate over the latest Sony fallout
And the police are no help, even a deterrent in this issue
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Obama has gained clarity, beginning to see legacy-building opportunities
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McALESTER, Okla. – Oklahoma’s last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into…
VATICAN CITY – The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded John Paul II in 1981 laid white flowers Saturday on the saint’s tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican officials said.…
Sam Kass, seen with first lady Michelle Obama, was the Obamas’ personal chef for six years. Kass cooked up policy alongside his meals.Associated Press file photo Sam Kass has been…
LOS ANGELES – While tens of thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally are gearing up to apply for a long-sought driver’s license in California starting Jan. 2, others…
The White House at sunset in Washington. After taking a shellacking in the November midterm elections, many Democrats remain confident that the 2016 presidential landscape still tilts in their favor.Jacquelyn…
Scientists hoping to make Christmas trees less messy
A woman releases a lantern in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand, while others light theirs, symbolizing the releasing of spirits, during a commemoration service for victims of the Asian tsunami that…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a town hall meeting in Ames, Iowa. Sanders says he’ll decide by March whether to launch a 2016 presidential campaign.Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press file photo…
BERKELEY, Mo. – Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley, Missouri, killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun…
Hundreds of theaters open up their doors to the much-maligned satire
This video shows Loujain al-Hathloul driving to the United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1 in Saudi Arabia. Al-Hathloul and another Saudi woman detained for driving…
Friends and relatives of Mu’ath Safi al-Kaseasbeh, a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group, gather in the town of Aey near Al Karak in southern Jordan, Wednesday. Islamic…
