Tsipras JERUSALEM – A Palestinian held without charge by Israel ended his unprecedented 66-day hunger strike Thursday, his lawyer said, after the Supreme Court ordered him released from detention. The…
People gather near where a bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt.Brian Rohan/Associated Press There were no immediate reports of deaths…
DAMASCUS, Syria – Islamic State militants beheaded a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung his body from…
Fire Department officials said Wednesday they found no bodies inside the burned ruins of a section of a Motel 6 in Bremerton, Wash. A Tuesday night gas explosion and fire…
Groundwater pumping speeding up subsidence
to let Iranian investigators inspect suspected weapons site
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a town hall meeting Tuesday in North Las Vegas, Nev.John Locher/Associated Press In a letter sent last week to Sen. Ron Johnson,…
using 419.9 signs to try to thwart sticky-fingered stoners
Hackers claim to have leaked a massive database of users from Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses. In a statement released Tuesday, a group calling itself Impact Team…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Israeli Zionist Union party leader Isaac Herzog agreed Tuesday that Israel and the Palestinian government must stop extremism on both sides or risk a…
McConnell says procedure is ‘stacked in president’s favor’
BRUSSELS – United Nations and European border agency officials urged the European Union on Tuesday to step up measures to help thousands of people who have fled violence in Syria,…
Fogle INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana television station is reporting that Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. The report on Fox 59 comes six weeks…
Services expected to let them fill more combat jobs
Experts warn few understand the potential to create chaos
Researcher Christian Meyer says the discovery of another prehistoric mass grave near Frankfurt, Germany, suggests that terror tactics were common among prehistoric communities.Christian Meyer via Associated Press Archaeologists who painstakingly…
than half raising taxes for road improvements
CAIRO – In a significant leap toward harsher authoritarian rule, Egypt has enacted a draconian new anti-terrorism law that sets a sweeping definition for who and what could face a…
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – Faced with escalating aggression from Russia and China, the Pentagon is planning to increase its use of drones by about 50 percent over the next…
Donald Trump, center, told a pedestrian that his plan to build a wall to stop illegal immigration from Mexico would work while arriving Monday at the courthouse in Manhattan to…
54-passenger plane apparently crashes into mountainside
ATLANTA – Julian Bond’s life traced the arc of the civil-rights movement, from his efforts as a militant young man to start a student protest group, through a long career…
The Canyon Creek Complex Fire burns towards a rural subdivision of John Day. Homes in the area were ordered evacuated as the fire burned out of control.Les Zaitz/The Oregonian-OregonLive via…
Some Democrats are growing increasingly concerned about stumbles early in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, including an FBI investigation of the handling of top-secret emails on the private computer server she…
SAO PAULO – Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country Sunday for anti-government protests being watched as a barometer of discontent with the increasingly unpopular…
In this image taken from a video footage, a woman holds up a photo of her son, a missing firefighter, outside a hotel where officials held a daily media conferences…
