Yuval Diskin, a former director of the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, says Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian lands poses a bigger threat to Israel than Iran’s nuclear program.Dan Balilty/Associated…
The feat surpasses the previous age record of about 100,000 years for genetic material recovered from members of the human evolutionary line. Older DNA has been mapped from animals. Experts…
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta released the five-year road map a month ago, which projected 7,500 unmanned aircraft in the skies within that period if regulations are in place. Technical complexities…
The new poll shows that Obama’s approval rating with 18- to 29-year-olds now stands at 41 percent, a dramatic 11-point drop from April. Fifty-four percent said they disapprove of the…
A train passes by the scene of repair efforts at the site of a train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York Tuesday. Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller told the…
HARTFORD, Conn. – As gunfire boomed over and over in the background, a janitor begged a 911 dispatcher to send help, saying, “There’s still shooting going on! Please!” A woman…
Authorities believe a cargo truck containing highly dangerous radioactive material was not targeted by terrorists. The truck was taken from a gasoline station in central Mexico and was carrying a…
NSA computer program crunches data to find patterns of relationships
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in China. After a state welcoming ceremony hosted by Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao, center, Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed China’s declaration…
President Barack Obama is promising to devote the remainder of his second term to trying to restore economic opportunity for Americans. Although he offered no specific policy proposals in a…
Inmate Jerry Martin is the last Texas inmate scheduled to be executed in Texas this year. Martin was executed Tuesday in the 2007 death of Texas Department of Corrections guard…
South Korean media, quoting the South Korean intelligence agency, reported that North Korean Kim Jong Un’s 67-year-old uncle – long viewed as a power behind the throne – has been…
District Judge G. Todd Baugh says he shouldn’t be removed from the bench because of comments he made about a 14-year-old rape victim. Baugh agreed, however, that he should be…
Onyango Obama, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan-born uncle, says the United States is “the land of opportunities.” Onyango Obama was allowed to remain in the United States despite ignoring a deportation…
ALBANY, N.Y. – An animal rights group is asking New York courts to recognize scientific evidence of emotional and cognitive abilities in chimpanzees and to grant the animals “legal personhood”…
Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says his agency can effectively monitor the Prime Tax Credit program to ensure that health insurance applicants are fraudently applying for tax credits when they…
On a voice vote, the House passed a bill to renew the Undetectable Firearms Act for another decade. The Senate could vote on the bill next Monday when it returns…
“I think there ought to be very explicit rules on listening in on conversations of world leaders,” Clinton said in an interview on the Fusion network. Some world leaders, such…
Investigators are looking into whether Metro-North Railroad engineer William Rockefeller was not paying attention to the train, which was going too fast when it derailed Sunday.Robert Stolarik/Associated Press A law…
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says China and Japan need “effective channels of communication” to avoid a miscalculation because of China’s declaration of an air defense zone over the East…
LONDON — The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday that his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden,…
Palestinian officials are calling for the international community to bring pressure to bear on Israel to get a peace agreement that would create a Palestinian state. The Palestinians say the…
Judge Steven Rhodes says he will not “lightly or casually” accept the city of Detroit’s proposals to shed some of its city worker pension obligations. Rhodes Tuesday said the city…
The United States is advising U.S. airlines to notify Chinese authorities before entering that country’s new air defense zone over the East China Sea. Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing told Philippine…
The State Department says it has no estimates of how many Americans have taken up weapons to fight military units loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in the conflict that…
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’ prediction that his company could be using drones to deliver packages to customers within five years is probably too unrealistic, say others. Matt Waite, a journalism…
Experts say a Postive Train Control system would have prevented Sunday’s train accident that killed four people and injured dozens. Rail experts say the system would have prevented the Metro-North…
BRUSSELS – NATO won’t be able to deploy its noncombat training and advisory mission in Afghanistan after next year unless President Hamid Karzai agrees to a bilateral security agreement with…
Organizers are planning another walkout at fast-food restaurants in 100 cities this week, a follow-up to this summer’s walkouts in about 60 cities. The Senate is proposing to raise the…
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says abuses like those taking place against civilians in Syria and the Central African Republican are testing the international community’s ability to…
