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Decentralized Qaeda affiliates and extremists now pose “the most direct threat” to the United States and American interests abroad, President Obama said Wednesday.
A U.S. citizen working with a militant group backed by Al Qaeda conducted a suicide bombing in the northern province of Idlib, officials said. He is believed to be the first American involved in such an attack.
The Department of Veterans Affairs reported on Wednesday that at least 1,700 veterans at the medical center were not registered on the proper waiting list, putting them at risk in the convoluted scheduling process.
Raymond DeGiorgio, a design engineer, offered Congressional investigators a glimpse into how a faulty switch was secretly fixed eight years ago, but no recall was issued until February.
Opponents of government policies that have spurred the growth of renewable energy are pushing back on mandates nationwide. Above, wind turbines in Ohio.
Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” described her girlhood in the segregated South, died Wednesday. She was 86.
Lawmakers are championing legislation that would permit the pursuit of a restraining order to keep people with a potential propensity for violence from buying or owning guns.
The White House event on Thursday will focus on money for research and aim to start a national conversation about the dangers of sports-related head injuries, especially among young people.
The state’s politics have always had a rough edge, but this year’s campaign to unseat Senator Thad Cochran has become the nastiest Republican primary in the nation.
A powdered product that purports to obviate the need for eating traditional meals may offer nourishment, but does not deliver any of food’s joys.
Fearing the worst from Republicans, President Obama backs away from a review on deportations.
The president’s commencement speech at West Point provided little new insight into how he plans to lead in the next two years.
Did he calm fears that America’s role in the world has diminished?
Concert goers can download a variety of apps to help them with packing, parking, eating and not tripping in the dark on the way to their tents, Kit Eaton writes.
Aaron and Jill Ginsberg found the competition fierce for apartments in Brooklyn.
The company began as a family-owned operation and has had several owners over its 100-year history. It’s now in the hands of Fiat Chrysler.
The head of a marketing company is out to prove the impossible is possible.
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