Protesters outside of Cafe Versailles on Calle Ocho in Miami decry the exchange of convicted Cuban spies for USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, who has been held by the Cuban government…
A bus filled with excited Cubans passes through the Vedado section of Havana, Cuba. After a half-century of Cold War acrimony, the United States and Cuba moved on Wednesday to…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his wife, Margie, pay their respects to the victims of the siege in Martin Place in Sydney’s central business district Tuesday,Steve Christo/Associated Press Man…
President Barack Obama leaves Marine One helicopter after returning to the White House from a trip to New Jersey to speak to members of the military at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.Pablo…
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government so the TSA could target travelers for extra scrutiny based…
TOKYO — North Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval” treatment of terrorism suspects just as the council agreed to consider a resolution calling…
Connecticutt State Police Detective Detective Barbara J. Mattson holds a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting.…
A injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia on Tuesday,.ROB GRIFFITH/Associated…
President Barack Obama’s health-insurance expansion faces the biggest test of its second year on Monday, the deadline to sign up for coverage that starts Jan. 1. The deadline will indicate…
PENNSBURG, Pa. – A man suspected of going to three houses in the Philadelphia suburbs and fatally shooting six people, including his ex-wife and her teenage niece, was at large,…
Bomb-disposal robot sent in; no explosives found
The Department of Defense says two servicemen died from wounds suffered during an attack in Afghanistan. Officials said Sunday that U.S. Army Spc. Wyatt J. Martin of Mesa, Arizona, and…
slams decision not to pursue criminal charges
MUBI, Nigeria – With a military escort instead of the usual pomp, the Emir of Mubi was reinstalled Friday in his palace, where until recently flew the black-and-white flag of…
WASHINGTON – When CIA interrogators were torturing accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a secret prison in Poland in March 2003, a top CIA analyst asked them to…
One-party political system leave many apathetic
LONDON – The airspace over London was briefly closed Friday afternoon due to what authorities said was a computer failure at one of Britain’s two air traffic control centers. The…
PORTLAND, Ore. – The economic recovery has not been equal among the races, according to a Pew Research Center study released Friday. The study found that the wealth gap between…
