In his first public comments about Mueller, Obama said he was heartbroken at news of the American humanitarian worker’s death. But he maintained his stance against paying ransoms for American…
The top recruiter for the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was killed in an American drone strike on Monday, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday, marking the first targeted attack…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Tina Maze kicked a cartwheel across the finish area. She had reason to celebrate: She had just won the combined event at the World Ski Championships…
The crew of American Flight 223 knew hours before takeoff that they couldn’t go the distance to Los Angeles. The first officer was going to exceed his allotted work time,…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is working with Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) to make paid family leave for all American workers a reality, with a proposal to grant 12 weeks of…
In the autobiography that inspired the blockbuster film, “American Sniper,” Kyle wrote that his work on Iraqi battlefields earned him the nickname, “Legend.” That’s what those fighting with Kyle called…
“The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” finally unseated Clint Eastwood’s runaway hit “American Sniper” at the weekend box office, while a pair of high-priced fantasies flopped. According to estimates…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — When the Alpine world ski championships were last on American soil, in 1999, no member of the United States team won a medal. With the championships…
Gina Rodriguez and America Ferrera have more in common than being the only Latina women to have won Golden Globes for best actress: Both of their series’ were originally Latin…
The Islamic State claimed Friday that the Jordanian bombings in northern Syria intended to avenge its immolation of a captured pilot had killed an American woman held hostage by the…
Photographer David LaFevor, an Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Digital Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington, is working on an ongoing project on Latin America and…
WASHINGTON — Chris Marvin began to believe veterans might have an image problem when he went out to his mailbox one morning and found a check from a wounded veterans…
Smith was only 20 when he was assigned to the sniper section of a mortar platoon at the height of the Iraq war. When I met him there in early…
American Ballet Theater icon Misty Copeland has over 402,000 followers on Instagram. To compare, athletes like Venus and Serena Williams have 89,500 and 992,000 followers, respectively. Michael Phelps has 462,000….
“If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what’s wrongor they should step…
If anyone can find a way to connect ‘Frozen’ to the downfall of the American male, it’s ‘Fox And Friends.’ – (h/t TPM)
“Fresh Off the Boat” is good — at times, very good. Without question, it’s one of the best new shows of the broadcast network season: funny, well-acted and promising on…
It was more than half a century ago that Dick Gregory became the Jackie Robinson of stand-up comedy, arguably the first black comic to break through to the white American…
Then, the former Florida governor was speaking to a friendly audience of establishment Republicans, after re-inserting himself in the immigration reform with the release of a controversial book on the…
In 1920, a group of men meeting in downtown Canton founded the National Football League. What’s more American than that? In that same year, the number of Italian immigrants living…
WASHINGTON — Ashton B. Carter on Wednesday will assert himself as an advocate of forceful yet prudent use of American power overseas when he faces a newly Republican-controlled Armed Services…
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis decreed Tuesday that slain Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was killed out of hatred for the faith, approving a martyrdom declaration that sets the stage…
On September 9, 1966, Life magazine featured a story on Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., the rising boxing star who’d recently changed his name to a moniker more familiar to sports…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis decreed Tuesday that slain Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was killed out of hatred for the faith, approving a martyrdom declaration that sets the stage for…
WASHINGTON — Two days before President Obama ended a half-century of diplomatic estrangement with Cuba, his national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, asked Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona to be…
“American Sniper” was life changing, Bradley Cooper stated Monday at the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills. And he wasn’t talking about the film’s unbelivable box office success. Even…
WASHINGTON — The American military command in Afghanistan on Monday abruptly reversed its decision to classify details about the Afghan Army and police, information that it had said could pose…
READ: Obama says terror fight is not a religious war “These investments will increase infrastructure funding by over a third, support hundreds of thousands of American jobs and lay the…
Thousands of immigrants seeking legalization through the U.S. court system have had their hearings canceled and are being told by the government that it may be 2019 or later before…
READ: Graham makes his 2016 case – “There’s got to be some regional force formed with an American component — somewhere around 10,000, I think, American soldiers — to ally…