WASHINGTON – The Senate on Tuesday reaffirmed a ban against torturing detainees and moved ahead on a more than $600 billion defense policy bill that is entangled in a broader…
Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal told NBC “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer on Tuesday that she thought much of the discussion about her has been “viciously inhumane.” Dolezal resigned as…
Sen. John McCain, R-Az., Tuesday introduced a Senate bill that would outlaw the torture of detainees held by the United States as terror suspects.Cliff Owen/Associated Press The Senate voted 78…
Attorney Michael Evans, left, asked the Colorado Supreme Court to issue a narrow ruling it case involving his client, Brandon Coats, right, who was fired by Dish Network. for using…
A military spokesman for the internationally recognized government of Libya on Monday criticized his government’s statement that a U.S. airstrike had killed Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who the United States…
shows anti-Semitic teachings still influence many
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran launched its first official matchmaking website on Monday in a bid to encourage millions of singles to marry, officials said, insisting it is not a dating…
DALLAS – The historic rainfall that inundated Texas in May continues to leave the soil saturated and rivers engorged, but a scientist involved in a NASA-funded research project says it…
A government data warehouse stores information forever on millions of consumers seeking coverage under President Barack Obama’s health-care law. That’s raising concerns about privacy at a time when major breaches…
New York State Police via Associated PressPrison worker Joyce Mitchell waived a preliminary hearing Monday in her case accusing her of aiding Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II unveils a plaque at Runnymede, England, during a commemoration ceremony Monday to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the ground-breaking accord called Magna Carta. In 1215, Britain’s…
DANNEMORA, N.Y. – Two convicted murderers who used power tools to cut their way out of a prison near the Canadian border could be nearby or “in Mexico by now,”…
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Stony Brook University professor Michael D’Emic says his review of data on dinosaur bone growth suggests that dinosaur metabolism was probably very mammalian – meaning they were warm blooded.Julius T.…
DALLAS – A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas’ police headquarters early Saturday before opening fire on the building and officers who tried to stop him, spraying the building and…
Finding Earhart is Ric Gillespie’s lifelong quest, despite doubters
DANNEMORA, N.Y. – A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday. Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell…
A canal worker looks over a railing as water from the Atlantic begins to flood the Gatun flood chambers that will provide water to the new set of locks on…
