WASHINGTON – Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study projects. It won’t be as bad in North America, where…
A new study in the journal Science projects that 1 in 13 species will go extinct because of global warming. One species that is in trouble because it has few…
Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts announces that the department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray was turned over to the State’s Attorney’s office a day early at a…
WASHINGTON – A charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors, creating a broad exception to the foundation’s promise to disclose funding sources…
Prisoner: Freddie Gray was ‘banging against the walls’
An injured victim of Saturday’s earthquake, evacuated by the Nepalese army, is carried down from a helicopter Wednesday in Kathmandu, Nepal. The first-aid shipments reached a hilly district near the…
The survey uncovered nuanced views on gay rights as the Supreme Court considers, in a case heard this week, whether the Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to marry. Americans…
WASHINGTON – The National Football League announced Wednesday it would cede its status as a tax-exempt entity. Every so often, in a bid to sound threatening, a member of Congress…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the arrest of 93 suspects with ties to the Islamic State group who it says were planning multi-pronged attacks on the…
Jagot Kumari Rana, 79, is led through the rubble of collapsed homes by her grandson Sogat Rana, 7, in Paslang village near the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake in the…
Maryland National Guardsmen patrol near downtown businesses in Baltimore on Tuesday, a day after looting and arson erupted following the funeral of Freddie Gray. Gray died from spinal injuries about…
Justices to address issue explicitly left open from 2013 decision
BOSTON – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged a jury Monday to spare his life, portraying him as “a good kid” who was led down the path to terrorism…
Children play under the water that they manage to spill over from a water tank, to cool off from the summer heat, at the Alemao Complex slum in Rio de…
UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured by direct mortar strikes and other “Israeli actions” while sheltering…
Family members grieve during the cremation of an earthquake victim in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley…
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – Coast Guard crews searched for five people missing Sunday after recovering two bodies following a powerful weekend storm that capsized several sailboats competing in a regatta…
So far, the quakes have been mostly small and have done little damage beyond cracking plaster, toppling bricks and rattling nerves. But seismologists warn that the shaking can dramatically increase…
Malik Z. Shabazz, center, of Black Lawyers for Justice, raises his fist in defiance at a rally for Freddie Gray on Saturday outside Baltimore City Hall. Gray died from spinal…
1,100 killed at capital; avalanche tears down Himalayas
Disastrous campaign helped forge Turkish, Australian identities
Italian vessels have been intercepting many small boats off the Libyan coast after hundreds of refugees drowned when ships smuggling migrants from Libya capsized this past week.Alessandro Di Meo via…
ENSENADA, Chile – Mighty blasts from the looming Calbuco volcano have left Ensenada an ash-drowned ghost town, abandoned by its 1,500 residents. And officials warned Friday they might have a…
