Hamas’ prime minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, right, and senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad discuss a possible reconciliation agreement between the two rival Palestinian groups on Tuesday.Hatem Moussa/Associated Press Following…
Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the top commander in South Korea, is pressing Congress and the Air Force to not retire the U-2 reconnaissance plane from service. The army commander says…
Deputy Attorney General James announced the new standards that will be considered in deciding whether to recommend clemency for certain non-violent drug prisoners. Wednesday’s announcement is part of an ongoing…
A map from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre displays details about the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The hunt for the missing Malaysia…
A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. An effort by government and industry to make the tank cars used to ship crude…
Pro-Russian activists in the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk say Simon Ostrovsky, a journalist for Vice News, is safe and is not being held as a hostage. A spokesman for the…
The justices said in a 5-4 ruling that courts can order people convicted of child pornography to pay restitution to their victims, but only to the extent that there is…
And at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, cognitive neuroscientist Marcel Just has a vision that will make Google Glass seem very last century. Instead of using your eye to direct a…
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a…
President Barack Obama speaks to first responders, recovery workers and community members at the Oso Fire Department in Oso, Wash., Tuesday. The president promised the entire nation was going to…
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian president is warning that if peace talks with Israel fail he may dismantle the Palestinian Authority and hand over responsibility for 2.5 million of…
The twin developments – which came just hours after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden left Kiev, the Ukrainian capital – raised fears that last week’s international agreement on easing Ukraine’s…
Although Lee Joon-seok, center, the captain of the sunken ferry boat Sewol in the water off the southern coast, is under arrrest on charges of abandoning passengers aboard the ferry,…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor says a Supreme Court decision upholding Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions tramples on the rights of minorities. In her dissent to…
The victims are overwhelmingly students of a single high school in Ansan, near Seoul. More than three-quarters of the 323 students are dead or missing, while nearly two-thirds of the…
The DNC on Tuesday said the party will accept proposals through June 6 and will pick a host city either late this year or early in 2015. In addition to…
Vice President Joe Biden is planning to warn Russia that it could face further sanctions if it fails to follow through on its commitments to ease tensions in Ukraine. Biden…
More than 35,000 runners are taking part in this year’s Boston Marathon, the largest number ever. Police were deployed in force along the marathon’s route as the race began Monday.…
SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni forces, reportedly backed by U.S. drone strikes, hit al-Qaida militants for a second consecutive day Monday in what Yemen officials said was an assault on a…
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter never surrendered hope of regaining his freedom, not even after he was convicted of a triple murder, then convicted again and abandoned by many prominent supporters. For…
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Telling Walter Unbehaun he frightened a teller by showing her a revolver tucked in his waistband during the 2013 heist, a federal judge imposed a 3½- year prison sentence, citing…
Jason Wenig of The Creative Workshop, a car restoration and customization business, is proposing to produce this electric car to replace New York City’s horseless carriages. Wenig unveiled his prototype…
Paleontologists and curators unveiled parts of a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton last week, including its jaw with teeth as big as bananas, at the National Museum of Natural History.…
Maine’s Passamaquoddy tribe is hoping its plans to develop a maple syrup industry will help its members get back to their tribal roots. The tribe notes that Native Americans were…
TRES RIOS, Costa Rica – On a warm spring day, Floribeth Mora was in her bed waiting to die from a seemingly inoperable brain aneurysm when her gaze fell upon…
