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PEORIA – Scrambling to contain the damage for billing taxpayers for a private plane ride to Chicago to attend a Bears game, revealed in the Chicago Sun-Times, Rep. Aaron Schock,…
WASHINGTON — Selling nuclear diplomacy with Iran was perhaps the toughest job at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference this year — second only to shepherding teenage attendees…
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a state law barring sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park is unconstitutional. – An appeals court in…
WASHINGTON — House Republicans attempted last week to kick the issue of funding for the Department of Homeland Security over to the Senate. On Monday evening, Senate Democrats kicked it…
Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due…
MOSCOW — They met three years ago, by some accounts on a vacation to Turkey, and soon enough became a couple. Though she was less than half his age, Anna…
Sunderland’s statement made no mention of why Johnson had been arrested, but earlier on Monday, a northeast England police force confirmed a 27-year-old man was in custody “on suspicion of…
Despite breakup rumors and hiatus announcements, Mumford and Sons announced Monday that the group’s third album, “Wilder Mind,” will be out on May 4 via Glassnote Records. After teasing the…
On Monday, Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires for 2015. There were some surprises: Michael Jordan made the list! — but when it comes to the richest…
The investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was gunned down not far from the Kremlin, faced conflicting reports Monday about…
The man who became the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” was a relatively hardworking student who showed no signs of being radicalized, his former school principal said Monday….
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military, alongside thousands of Shiite militia fighters, began a large-scale offensive on Monday to retake the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State, a battle that…
GENEVA — The United Nations said Monday that an influx of troops and heavy weapons from Russia had intensified the conflict in eastern Ukraine, undermining prospects for peace and causing…
More than 6,000 people have died in eastern Ukraine since the start of the conflict almost a year ago that has led to a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and…
WASHINGTON — President Obama and two of his top national security officials will make their case publicly on Monday for a diplomatic agreement with Iran to prevent that nation from…
Schoolchildren suspensions aren’t the only signs of dreadlock discrimination in the modern world. 18-year-old performer Zendaya was recently the target of an offensive comment made on E! News’ “Fashion Police”…
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school’s stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him “as a…
After snow snarled a Colorado commute, a homeless man’s kind acts were caught on camera. Now, he’s receiving an outpouring of generosity in return. Local news station KOAA filmed Shelby…
A 34-year-old man turned himself into Honolulu Police on Monday afternoon after a woman and her two young children were found stabbed in their sleep. – Police also told the…
The Middletown Police Department reported that 11 were hospitalized because of Molly and one because of alcohol. Four people remained in the hospital Monday, including two in critical condition, according…
Maggie Baumann was completely unprepared for the backlash she received, when after more than 20 years, she started opening up about struggling with anorexia while she was pregnant. Baumann discussed…
ESPN announced Tuesday that it will keep host Keith Olbermann off the air for the rest of the week following tweets that the network called “completely inappropriate.” Olbermann got himself…
For a few hours on a single day every year, the prim and elegant Greek seaside town of Galaxidi explodes into frantic childishness. Riotous groups of residents pelt each other…
BRUSSELS — The new Greek government vowed to take a disciplined approach to budgets, spending and tax collection in the financial plan it submitted for eurozone approval, but said it…
Mr. McDonald, a 1975 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, where he completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare and Ranger…
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues…
A Kentucky Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that would require transgender students to use restrooms designated for “their biological sex,” days after an identical measure failed. – “Unfortunately,…
ATHENS — Greece on Monday delayed the submission of the proposed reforms that European creditors have made a condition of the country’s financial aid. European and Greek officials spent much…
The high-profile attorney who represented the family of a black teenager killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, says he’ll represent the parents of an unarmed Mexican man who…
Freezing rain coated parts of Texas with ice on Monday, leading to hundreds of canceled flights and a delay in the “American Sniper” murder trial. Elsewhere, arctic air and snow…