A ball of fire rises following an Israeli air strike Friday on a building in Gaza in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas would pay…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council condemned the “heinous and cowardly” killing of American journalist James Foley and said the Islamic State militant group “must be defeated.” In a…
Ukraine calls entry of aid trucks ‘invasion’
A test drone is launched by catapult as a trail plane follows on a ranch near Sarita, Texas. Model aircraft hobbyists, research universities and commercial drone operators and investors have…
LAS VEGAS – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Friday for jokes he made about Asians during a luncheon of business leaders in Las Vegas earlier this week. Reid was…
Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly, right, hugs a member of the medical staff that treated him after being released from Emory University Hospital Thursday in Atlanta.)John Bazemore/Associated Press “I am…
In this photo taken with a long exposure, protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday.JEFF ROBERSON/Associated Press St. Louis County spokeswoman…
In this June 17, 2011 photo, journalist James Foley receives applause from students at the Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School in Framingham, Mass. Foley had been released a month…
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon broke the law when it swapped Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner in Afghanistan for five years, for five Taliban leaders, congressional investigators said Thursday. The…
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelans could soon have to scan their fingerprints to buy bread. President Nicolas Maduro says a mandatory fingerprinting system is being implemented at grocery stores to combat…
University of Colorado-Boulder graduate student Jenny Nakai watches a monitor as fellow graduate student Matthew Weingarten jumps to test the sensitivity of a portable seismograph near Greeley. The students are…
U.S. special operations troops this summer attempted to rescue Americans held by Islamist extremists in Syria, Obama administration officials said Wednesday. The failed mission was intended to rescue hostages, including…
This file photo posted on the website www.freejamesfoley.org shows journalist James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in July, 2012. In a horrifying act of revenge for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq,…
Internally displaced Iraqis walk near tents at the Bajid Kandala camp during a sand storm in Feeshkhabour town, Iraq on Tuesday. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by fighting…
Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol Wednesday. The attorney general promised a thorough investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is considering key changes in the nation’s immigration system requested by tech, industry and powerful interest groups, in a move that could blunt Republicans’ election-year…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Wyoming’s Mike Enzi has won the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate, beating four challengers as he seeks a fourth term. The 70-year-old Enzi says he’s seeking…
says law denied terror suspects due process
Journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants showing the killing of Foley by the militant group…
Study: Readers of paperbacks remember more
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s attorney general has barred a New York Times correspondent from leaving the country because of a story in which he reported that a group of officials…
