Sunday’s 15-0 vote came several days after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that Yemen was “collapsing before our eyes.” – CNN’s Greg Botelho and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this…
Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. Levine was 87. Levine, the country’s poet laureate…
The Hasbro showroom at this year’s Toy Fair includes products tied to “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Ant-Man,” “Spider-Man,” “Jurassic World” and “Transformers,” but it’s the tiny Furbacca that was the…
SAN FRANCISCO — It would not be an insult to say Republic Wireless and FreedomPop are obscure little companies. But they dream big. The two companies are at the forefront…
If his Facebook page is any indication, Craig Hicks doesn’t hate Muslims. An avowed atheist, his online posts instead depict a man who despises religion itself, but nevertheless seems to…
It’s no news that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is filled with shocking deaths that cause major freakouts among fans. Those who’ve read George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and…
The five-minute video, released by the terror group’s propaganda wing al-Hayat Media, includes a masked English-speaking jihadi who says, “The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama bin Laden’s body in,…
Lars Vilks is no stranger to threats. The Swedish cartoonist is on an al Qaeda hit list and travels everywhere with bodyguards at his side. He’s survived previous attempts on…
Three suspects have been arrested in the murder of Ozgecan Aslan, 20, whose body was found Friday in Mersin’s Tarsus district in southern Turkey, according to the country’s semiofficial news…
READ: ‘Greek tragedy’ leads to governor’s resignation But for Brown, who is married to a man and has served as Oregon’s secretary of state since 2009, it will be the…
just as the Clinton library in Little Rock has been — with Freedom of Information Act requests, such as this one: for ‘e-mails to and from John Podesta, containing the…
WASHINGTON — A number of countries — China most prominent among them — have long acted to hold down the value of their currencies against the dollar, helping their industries…
We have an unhealthy obsession with presidents as the sole movers of American politics. For too long, Americans have understood history primarily through the lens of the presidency. School textbooks…
Dedicated Drake fans have probably already memorized all of the songs on Drake’s new mixtape, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.” But one man, Richy Huck, took his fandom…
Hundreds of graves have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, in what the president called an “odious and barbaric” anti-Semitic act against French values. The vandalism comes…
A video released Sunday by the Islamic State appears to show the mass beheading of a group of 21 Coptic Christians, who are made to kneel beside the sea in…
He has six titles at ATP 250 level, a Masters 1000 crown at Monte Carlo last spring, a grand slam at last year’s Australian Open, plus Olympic gold with Roger…
It takes a fraction of that to get residents in the South into emergency mode. Sometimes, it doesn’t even have to snowjust the possibility of wintry weather is enough for…
If the first peek of the haunted house horror flick is any indication, director Guillermo del Toro has a lot of frights up his sleeve for the film’s October 16…
This story was originally published on 24/7 Wall St. The ongoing debate over income inequality has picked up steam, especially as the economic recovery is widely considered to be benefiting…
CAIRO, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the militant group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya. In the video, militants in…
A protest held here Saturday over the police killing of a Mexican-born apple picker had the air of a mournful family picnic. About 500 people gathered at a park to…
Kanye West unveiled his Adidas Yeezy Season 1 collection along with a new song at New York Fashion Week on Thursday. The rapper told Complex the show was “like the…
Israel’s prime minister on Sunday called for the “massive immigration” of European Jews to Israel following a deadly shooting near Copenhagen’s main synagogue, renewing a blunt message that has upset…
‘The situation was dire,” said Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy. “Had the Polar Star not reached the Chieftain, it would have had to winter in the ice.” –…
A report from a cybersecurity firm says an international hacking ring has stolen up to $1 billion from banks around the globe in what would be one of the biggest…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council was on Sunday set to demand Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen withdraw from government institutions, call…
The youngest priest in the Diocese of Baton Rouge has a few confessions about his faith and his music: He didn’t like the Catholic Church as a youth, tried for…
They’re almost 90, survived the Holocaust and love to play music together, so why not? Saul Dreier and Reuben Sosnowicz, nostalgic for the tunes of their youth, have started a…
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon who had his skull fractured by police when he led a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years…