A fly in an air bubble.Floris van Breugel/Caltech Twain delighted in his failure to drown the flies, as he wrote in his travel memoir “Roughing It”: “You can hold them…
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has submitted her resignation from the Federal Reserve board to President Donald Trump, announcing that she will leave the board when her successor Jerome Powell…
FILE – This June 21, 2017, file photo shows the building that houses the headquarters of Uber, in San Francisco. Colorado regulators issued a $8.9 million fine on Monday, Nov.…
Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press file<br><br>A man watches a TV screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, during a news program at the Seoul Train…
First lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump, look at the Wisconsin-grown Christmas Tree at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. The…
Alex Azar, then U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary, speaks at a state of Michigan pandemic influenza summit in Detroit. Newly disclosed financial records show that Azar,…
Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, file<br><br>Charlie Rose attends The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in Media party in New York. The Washington Post reported that eight women have accused television host Charlie…
The then-Princess Elizabeth married naval officer Lt. Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947, in a Britain physically and economically ravaged by World War II. Wartime Prime Minister…
At Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street in New York, a chance to sit on Saint Nick’s lap is by appointment only this year, for the first time ever. Starting…
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press The declaration by Leigh Corfman comes after Moore’s…
Nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives were used to blast the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to smithereens at 7:30 a.m. Onlookers gathered at skyscrapers’ windows, at a restaurant atop the city’s…
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gestures as he speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. Mulvaney and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent mixed signals Sunday, Nov.…
While there is a widespread consensus that the 93-year-old president should step down after nearly four decades in power, Mugabe has refused. The country has known no other leader since…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a news conference about the results of their exploratory talks on a coalition of their parties in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 20,…
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens at a committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington. A second woman has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching, saying Monday, Nov. 20,…
Evan Vucci/Associated Press file<br><br>President Donald Trump speaks during an event to declare the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in the East Room of the White House in Washington.…
Manson died of natural causes at a California hospital while serving a life sentence, his name synonymous to this day with unspeakable violence and depravity. Michele Hanisee, president of the…
White House adviser Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speak in Bayville, N.J., Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, about tax overhaul, where they promised legislation moving through Congress would simplify…
The trophy policy was among issues Trump cited in a series of tweets. He also insulted Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and branded as ungrateful the father of one of the…
No detail seems to have been overlooked. There’s even a designated “safe escape” door at the nuclear-warfighting headquarters near Omaha, Nebraska, through which the four-star commander would rush to a…
Mnangagwa served for decades as Mugabe’s enforcer — a role that gave him a reputation for being astute, ruthless and effective at manipulating the levers of power. Among the population,…
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, went further than many of her GOP colleagues have been willing to go in recent days…
Trump’s tweet Sunday comes after the father of player LiAngelo Ball minimized Trump’s involvement in winning the players’ release in comments to ESPN. “Who?” LaVar Ball told ESPN on Friday,…
President Donald Trump urged House Republicans Thursday to approve a near $1.5 trillion tax overhaul as the party prepared to drive the measure through the House. Across the Capitol, Democrats…
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press One Republican senator urged Alabama voters to reject…
Saturday’s wedding at Border Field State Park in San Diego was a first for an opening of the gate known as the Door of Hope. Evelia Reyes, wearing a white…
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., with his wife, Kayla Moore, right, on Thursday. A sex scandal has…
Not real Second Roy Moore Accuser Works For Michelle Obama Right NOW The facts The woman named as an accuser of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore in a story…
This photo provided by Genentech, Inc. shows a package of the drug Hemlibra. On Thursday the Food and Drug Administration approved Hemlibra, the first new treatment in nearly two decades…
Larry Kingsland, 62, said Friday he and scores of people who live around the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community ferried elderly residents to medics as firefighters rescued them from the…
