AMHERST, Mass. — Word of the new policy spread through Facebook, text messages and emails, leaving consternation and fury in its wake. The state’s flagship campus had announced this month…
A surge in spending on health care is translating into well-paying jobs, but opportunities are only available to those willing to put in the time and money to retrain. HUNTINGTON,…
A surge in spending on health care is translating into well-paying jobs, but opportunities are only available to those willing to put in the time and money to retrain. HUNTINGTON,…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four days into his tenure as defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday morning and opened up the possibility of slowing the withdrawal of…
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies and the Pentagon are struggling to determine how difficult it will be to retake Mosul, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Iraq, as planning…
Securing 13 of the top 24 spots, teens are officially taking over Season 14 of “American Idol.” So far, the young performers have made it through auditions, tested their skills…
Get ready for the conspiracy theories if “American Sniper” doesn’t snag the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday. Vanity Fair recently gathered a panel of movie experts in Hollywood…
Get ready for the conspiracy theories if “American Sniper” doesn’t snag the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday. Vanity Fair recently gathered a panel of movie experts in Hollywood…
“We will support the Afghan government in realizing reconciliation with various political factions including the Taliban,” Mr. Wang told reporters in Islamabad, according to Reuters. That follows on other initial…
As Don McLean prepares the release of his next album “Botanical Gardens,” the singer-songwriter is also letting go of a piece of “American Pie,” his enduring hit from 1971. –…
President Lyndon Johnson called “Bloody Sunday” a turning point in American history, comparing it to Lexington and Concord and Appomattox. This was not Texas hyperbole. The brutal attack on voting…
WASHINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will lay out a vision of American foreign policy on Wednesday aimed at pushing his nascent 2016 presidential campaign out of the shadow…
American fashion, like American politics, may be a discipline won by moving toward the middle, but the most riveting action often takes place on the sides. It is the extremists…
Related: Russia + North Korea = New BFF? Otilia Dhand, a political risk analyst at Teneo Intelligence in Belgium, said she expects continued fighting in Ukraine will bring incremental increases…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — When the Alpine world ski championships came to the United States this month for the first time since 1999, the 13-day event was quickly defined by…
Canadian police have foiled a plot by three suspects who were planning to go to a mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and kill as many people as they could before…
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt and Libya, American intelligence officials assert, raising the…
HOUSTON — The global benchmark price for oil rallied above $60 a barrel on Friday for the first time in 2015, but analysts warned that growing stockpiles were hanging over…
Most recently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker visited Chatham Housea gorgeous foreign policy study center in Westminster. There he was asked if he believed in evolution or not. Why, I cannot…
Roger Goodell made $35 million running a small non-profit known as the National Football League in 2013. For those who don’t know about it, the league, commonly referred to as…
Now that Brian Williams has been suspended by NBC for six months—and I’d be really surprised if he gets his job back at the end of that—my younger readers might…
Technology isn’t what it used to be, at least in terms of increasing American workers’ productivity. And that’s bad news for the U.S. economy. A new paper from the Federal…
It’s one of the biggest sporting events on the planet and in a growing market for new fans, football’s global governing body has cut a media rights deal for the…
The Democratic super PAC American Bridge unearthed the move in a lawsuit from 2010, when Bush sat on the board of Clothesline Holdings, a New York-based holding company. The suit…
WASHINGTON — As an October chill fell on the mountain passes that separate the militant havens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a small team of Afghan intelligence commandos and American Special…
It would be hard to find two words that seem so ill-matched as “Afghanistan cricket.” Yet this month, the national team of that war-torn country will begin play in cricket’s…
“Nice to have another U.S. airline with a 787, finally,” aviation enthusiast and frequent flier Jason Rabinowitz tweeted to CNN. Since 2012, United has been the only U.S. airline to…
ISIS U.S. CAPTIVE DEAD Another hostage death: The family of Kayla Mueller revealed devastating news yesterday. The American hostage held by ISIS was dead, her family said. The news came…
David Brock, longtime Clinton defender and the founder of pro-Clinton messaging group Correct the Record and liberal opposition research juggernaut American Bridge, resigned from his position on the board of…
WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce Wednesday that he is withdrawing almost all the American troops who were sent to West Africa to help contain the spread of the Ebola…