Obama to give speech Wednesday on Islamic State
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday and giving a speech...
View ArticleObama outlining plan to fight IS militants
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an address to the nation, President Barack Obama will outline an expanded military and political effort to combat Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, possibly including...
View ArticleDenver woman pleads guilty in terror case
A 19-year-old Colorado woman became the latest American to admit to attempting to join a Middle East terrorist group, pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to provide support to the Islamic State...
View ArticleAdjournment on ‘culpable homicide’
Nastasya Tay, reporting from Courtroom GD in Pretoria, South Africa, contributed to this report. Oscar Pistorius has been found not guilty of murdering Reeva Steenkamp. The stunning development was...
View ArticleFormer Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a charmed life of newspapering, Ben Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place. The raspy-voiced, hard-charging editor who invigorated The Washington Post got an early...
View ArticleInvestigators, Branson go to spacecraft crash site
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Federal accident investigators are headed to a desert crash site where a winged spaceship designed to give wealthy tourists a high-altitude view of Earth broke up during a test...
View ArticleFacebook slams door on political campaigns
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s reelection campaign pioneered a pathway for political campaigns to reach voters through Facebook when it released an app that helped supporters target their friends with...
View ArticleHong Kong protesters break into government building as tensions flare again
By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – A small group of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters broke into the city’s legislature via a side door early on Wednesday, and police stopped others forcing their...
View ArticleKasich steals show at governors’ meeting
BOCA RATON, Fla. — It was almost as if John Kasich wanted to reach out and pat Scott Walker on the head. The Republican governor of Ohio and the Republican governor of Wisconsin were seated onstage at...
View ArticleSenate report: Harsh CIA tactics didn’t work
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond its legal boundaries...
View Article3 hurt in Oregon school shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A shooter wounded two boys and a girl outside an alternative high school Friday in what is believed to be a gang-related attack, Portland police said. #BREAKING At least two...
View Article8 children killed in home in northern Australia
SYDNEY (AP) — Eight dead children and a woman suffering from stab wounds were found inside a home in a northern Australian city on Friday, police said. Queensland state police said they were called to...
View ArticleWreckage, bodies reveal jet’s fate days after it disappeared
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television screens, proof...
View ArticleMeet the new Congress
In 2014, voters hated Congress[1] and elected to change it, giving Republicans control of the Senate and an even wider majority in the House. But are the politicians they sent to Washington all that...
View ArticleParents of U.S. woman held by Islamic State notified of her death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman held by Islamic State militants, has been confirmed dead, her parents and the Obama administration said Tuesday. Mueller’s family...
View ArticlePolice: Victim knew suspect in Vegas road-rage killing
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police took an important step toward solving the mystery surrounding the road-rage killing of a Las Vegas mother outside her home, arresting a teenage neighbor who had a history with...
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