SANAA, Yemen – Shiite rebels shelled the residence of Yemen’s leader and swept into the nearby presidential palace Tuesday in what a top army commander said was an unfolding coup.…
Privacy experts are raising concerns that dozens of data firms helping the U.S. government improve the HealthCare.gov website are receiving personal data about users that could be improperly used to…
In a shift from State of the Union tradition, Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress was less a laundry list of new proposals and more an attempt to…
Steven Senne/Associated Press<br><br>Medical personnel walk past law enforcement officials, right, as they depart the Shapiro building at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Tuesday. A person was critically shot at…
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy from Vermont tours the city during a three-day visit to Havana, Cuba. Leahy said Cuban officials are open to President Barack Obama’s proposal to increase political…
SANAA, Yemen – Yemen’s U.S.-backed leadership came under serious threat Monday as government troops clashed with Shiite rebels near the presidential palace and a key military base in what one…
CINCINNATI – Four death-row inmates who are suing Ohio officials over a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal injection drugs want a federal court to…
Democrats are getting close to picking the site for their 2016 party convention with New York City being one of the finalists. Also in the running now are Philadelphia and…
Tensions soar after Israeli attack in Golan Heights
President Barack Obama participates Monday in a service project at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in honor of King’s life…
A tourist takes photographs as French police patrol under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Since last week’s terrorist attacks that killed 17 people in Paris, European police officials are reconsidering…
King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, urged those gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for the 47th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Commemorative Service to act out against…
TOKYO – Shin Dong-hyuk, the North Korean prison-camp survivor who has admitted that parts of his well-known tale are inaccurate, has urged his supporters to continue publicizing the “horrendous and…
Those were the first words Lynda Blackmon Lowery says she heard from the mouth of Martin Luther King Jr. “And those three words changed my life,” said Lowery, who at…
Multiple gunshots were fired outside Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware, and a vehicle fled the area on Saturday night, Secret Service officials said. The vice president and his…
And that ostensibly populist message about wages and jobs for the middle class? It’s what their potential rivals for the Democratic and Republican nominations – Jeb Bush and Elizabeth Warren,…
A carved depiction of the prophet Mohammed (center) rests in the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court building, which was built in the 1930s. It was during the colonial era…
A new procedure based on the same principle that allows babies’ diapers to absorb water is being used to reveal tiny details in cells of human and mouse tissue.Science journal…
CORONADO, Calif. – Not yet in the presidential race, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mitt Romney already are previewing the likely focus of the 2016 campaign, a competition over who’s better…
Brothers in Charlie Hebdo attack were quietly buried in France
CAIRO – The famed French weekly Charlie Hebdo continued to draw a somewhat contradictory reaction across the Muslim world. Many Muslims have expressed disgust at the deadly assault on the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Saudi authorities on Friday postponed the second round of public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam after a doctor concluded that his wounds…
