Mark Lennihan/Associated Press file<br><br>Pamela Geller speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in New York. A Massachusetts man was convicted Wednesday of plotting to behead Geller, a conservative blogger,…
Less than two hours later, Radee Labeeb Prince drove to a used car lot about 55 miles away in Wilmington, Delaware, and opened fire on a man with whom he…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The repeated, often-testy questioning about the Russia investigation, coming even as…
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, meet before the start of a hearing on…
Leonard Coriz, the boyfriend prosecutors say killed Padilla by running her over with his truck, claimed it was all an accident. The couple had been gathering wood earlier that day…
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., left, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., update reporters on the status of their inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016…
Kenneth Sturkey, who dresses as Scrappy the Owl at Kennesaw State University athletic events, said he donned the costume without permission for Monday’s rally on behalf of cheerleaders who knelt…
One of those ailing senators – 79-year-old Thad Cochran of Mississippi – was back in Washington Tuesday after a month of treatment at home. A statement said he still had…
“Giseal Bündchen” and “Sealonardo DiCaprio’ were released Tuesday on Scusset Beach on Cape Cod by workers at the nonprofit National Marine Life Center. Video shows the seals make their way…
Two polar bears engaged in play fighting in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Democrats and environmental groups on Tuesday denounced a Republican plan to allow oil and gas…
People return back to Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday. Thousands of civilians are streaming back to Kirkuk, a day after fleeing as Iraqi troops pushed Kurdish…
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, center, with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, left, and Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, right, speaks during the conclusion of…
Wilmington police investigate the death of two children in Wilmington, Del. Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy said at a news conference Tuesday that officers found a 3-month-old boy and a…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined at right by Secretary for the Majority Laura Dove, walks from his office to the chamber for the start of the legislative day,…
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu. Watson on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect.George Lee/The…
Manu Fernandez/Associated Press<br><br>People protest the National Court’s decision to imprison civil society leaders without bail, in front of the Palau Generalitat in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday. Protesters were gathering for…
In this photo distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, Russian cargo ship Souz 2,1A launches from Russia’s main space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Saturday. Parts from a similar…
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returns to the Fort Bragg courthouse after a lunch break on Monday in Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and…
That’s how long fans of his client, 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tell him he has to keep her healthy so that a one-term President Donald Trump doesn’t…
The UNHCR video shot Monday shows thousands upon thousands of Rohingya Muslims trudging along a narrow strip of land alongside what appears to a rain-swollen creek in the Palong Khali…
A fire burns northeast of Los Angles near the summit of Mount Wilson early Tuesday. Firefighters on the ground and in the air raced to protect the Mount Wilson Observatory…
The agreement followed weeks of negotiations between Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington that sought to address health insurance markets that have been…
Afghan National Amy commandos open fire during a military exercise in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday. The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday killing at least 74…
Inocencia Rodrigues, 64, walks among the debris of the burnt shed where she raised chickens and pigs in the village of Sao Joaninho near Santa Comba Dao, northern Portugal, on…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., receives the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, on Monday. McCain and President Donald Trump have been at odds ever since then-candidate Trump…
Steven Senne/Associated Press file<br><br>An autonomous vehicle is driven by an engineer on a street in an industrial park in Boston. A new study inspired by Boston’s early experiments with self-driving…
Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., has withdrawn from consideration to be the nation’s drug czar following reports that he played a key role in weakening the federal government’s authority to stop…
Syrian Democratic Forces fighters, take their position in a destroyed building during their battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria. The U.S.-backed Syrian forces battling the Islamic State…
FILE – In this Jan. 12, 2016 file photo, Alyssa Milano arrives at the Sixth Biennial UNICEF Ball in Beverly Hills, Calif. Milano said she was in bed with her…
Vicky Kalogera, a gravitational-wave astrophysicist at Northwestern University who contributed to the historic detections of gravitational waves, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday during an announcement…
