Obama: FBI investigating ‘brutal and outrageous murders’
“No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship,” Obama said in a statement….
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“No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship,” Obama said in a statement….
President Barack Obama released a statement Friday on the shooting of three members of a Muslim family in North Carolina. – For more on the Chapel Hill shooting, go here.
Tomie Ohtake, the celebrated Japanese-Brazilian artist known for her bold, primary colored abstract paintings and gravity-defying monumental sculptures, has died, the institute bearing her name said. She was 101. In…
Former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice issued an apology to the city of Baltimore on Friday in which he asked for forgiveness and said he plans to raise awareness about…
Credit Bharat Choudhary Credit Adela Sanz Fernández Credit Colleen Mullins – The remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. Seven civilians were…
READ: Oregon paper’s editorial board calls for gov’s resignation But sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Kitzhaber changed his mind, and his office released a statement around 2:40 p.m. on…
The U.S. high school graduation rate reached a new high of 81 percent for the 2012–2013 school year, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Education. Since 2010,…
Imperial Wizard Brent Waller of the United Dixie White Knights, the Mississippi branch of the Ku Klux Klan, shared the group’s support for Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in a…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The police said it was all over a parking spot. The shooter’s wife said it wasn’t about religion. But many members of this college town’s close-knit…
The mother of Akai Gurley expressed relief on Tuesday after a Brooklyn grand jury reportedly indicted the New York City police officer who fatally shot her son. “We’re glad justice…
Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said more than 20,000 fighters, from more than 90 countries, have traveled to the ISIS battlefield, according to testimony CNN obtained in…
“We have a profound disagreement with the United States administration and the rest of the P5+1 over the offer that was made to Iran. This offer will enable Iran to…
Kayla Mueller was killed while trying to wipe away human suffering from the world’s most vulnerable victims. The Obama administration and Mueller’s parents confirmed on Tuesday that the 26-year-old who…
The parents of Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker abducted in 2013 by the Islamic State, issued a statement Tuesday confirming her death, four days after the militant group claimed…
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement Tuesday he would skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress next month. – “I don’t want…
President Barack Obama released a statement Tuesday on the death of Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old American humanitarian worker who had been held hostage by the Islamic State, also referred…
The United Arab Emirates launched airstrikes Tuesday against the Islamic State group from an air base in Jordan, marking its return to combat operations against the militants after it halted…
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The state of Pennsylvania has launched an expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program, its governor Tom Wolf said in a statement on Monday….
“The infected infant arrived in Atlanta from outside of the U.S. and is being cared for at Egleston at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta,” the Georgia Department of Public Health said…
Now, after more than seven years behind bars, the woman known as “The Queen of the Pacific” is free. A judge ruled in favor of her appeal last week, Mexico’s…
President Barack Obama released a statement on Sunday commemorating the life of Dean Smith, the fabled basketball coach at the University of North Carolina who passed away Saturday evening at…
Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game’s biggest names like…
Bill Cosby has canceled his two Sunday night performances in Boston because of the weather, but he plans to return soon. In a statement, the comedian said, “I have decided…
Rebels took her up on an offer she’s made in the past that she’s willing to attend the negotiations in Cuba. “We have read with interest about your desire to…
The parents of a 26-year-old American who Islamic State extremists say was killed in an airstrike in Syria said in a statement addressed to group leaders that the claim of…
She’s leaving the show to focus on her family after she split from her wife, Michelle Rounds, in November, her publicist said in a statement Friday. – CNN’s Tony Marco…
A media account affiliated with the Islamic State group has released a statement on Friday that claims a female American hostage held by the group was killed in a Jordanian…
“Today’s remarks by the President were inappropriate and his choice of venue was insulting to every person of faith at a time when Christians are being crucified, beheaded, and persecuted…
The protest is in response to Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, owner of the hotel chain, unveiling Sharia law in Brunei that allows for the stoning, amputation or flogging of those found…
Harper Lee has issued a new statement expressing her happiness with the publication of her second novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” amid growing speculation that the fiercely private novelist may…