WASHINGTON - Hours after Republicans swept to victory in November 2010, catapulting John A. Boehner to the speaker's chair, he was asked how he could possibly persuade House conservatives to do some of the tough jobs of governing like raising the ...
NEW YORK Pope Francis on Friday condemned the craving for material gains and power, warning an annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations that greed is destroying the Earth's resources and aggravating poverty.
President Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged Friday that neither of their governments would conduct or condone economic espionage in cyberspace in a deal that sought to address a major source of friction in the bilateral relationship.
SEATTLE - People with foreign language skills were, by necessity, among the first emergency workers to respond to a horrific bus accident on Thursday that killed four international college students and sent nearly 50 other people to hospitals.
To Donald Trump, size matters. The GOP pack leader and former reality television star constantly touts the number of attendees at his events and sometimes wildly exaggerates, an unusual habit for a presidential candidate.
UNITED NATIONS - With the bang of a gavel, international leaders approved an ambitious 15-year plan Friday to tackle the world's biggest problems, from eradicating poverty to preserving the planet to reducing inequality.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - For the two million Muslims from across the world performing the hajj in Saudi Arabia this year, the annual pilgrimage is a time to forget the differences in race, sect, wealth and even nationality that divide believers and focus ...
BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore County police on Friday released a surveillance video that shows a drug suspect aggressively moving toward an officer with his gun drawn moments before the officer fired, killing the man.
As Biden presidential buzz continues to grow, the effort to lay the groundwork for a potential presidential bid for Vice President Joe Biden is looking past Iowa and New Hampshire, staffing up in the 11 states that will hold their primary elections on ...
Texas prison officials are helping their counterparts in Virginia prepare for a scheduled execution next week by providing the state with pentobarbital, a lethal drug that corrections agencies nationwide have had difficulty obtaining.
WOLFSBURG, Germany Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) named company veteran Matthias Mueller as its chief executive on Friday as the German carmaker struggles to get to grips with a crisis over rigged diesel emission tests that its chairman called "a moral ...
AMHERST, Mass./SAN FRANCISCO Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is back in Washington on Friday, a day after receiving emergency medical attention following a speech during which she appeared to lose concentration and which she struggled to ...
Apple released its latest and greatest iPhone on Friday with an all-new pressure-sensitive 3D Touch input system that introduces novel user interactions like "peek and pop," Quick Actions, added gesture control and more.
WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into whether Google Inc (GOOGL.O) uses its Android operating system to dominate competitors as more consumers go mobile, two sources familiar with the matter ...
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It's over! Yet another Hollywood favorite couple have revealed that they're heading to splitsville. Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting and husband Ryan Sweeting have decided to divorce after nearly two years of marriage, according to People.
It's now been nearly nine months since Teresa Giudice began her federal prison sentence for fraud, and now we're getting another look at her life behind bars.
ATLANTA -- Jordan Spieth will find himself in the final group on Saturday at the Tour Championship, that long-lost spot on the pairing sheet that has seemingly been so elusive.
The rape investigation of Patrick Kane is not over. But the developments over this past week - from the revelation that no DNA evidence from the NHL hockey star was found in the alleged victim's pelvic area, to the mysterious appearance of what was ...
Former No. 1 pick Anthony Bennett has cleared waivers and is expected to sign early next week with the Toronto Raptors, a source close to the situation told ESPN Insider Jeff Goodman.
Two-million-year-old fossils including the three tiny bones of the middle ear are helping scientists figure out the auditory abilities of early human ancestors at a time when they were beginning to hear more like a person and less like a chimpanzee.
These beautiful, shimmering tendrils of plasma are all that remain of an ancient massive star that, approximately 8,000 years ago, died and exploded as a supernova.
If there's one thing we've learned from NASA's New Horizons flyby on July 14, it's that we have a really incomplete understanding of planetary evolution.
If you want to drop some real DNA editing knowledge—like, I don't know, at a party!—here's a tip. Instead of calling the much hyped precise genome-editing tool CRISPR, call it CRISPR/Cas9.
New studies of two drugs, showing that each works better than the standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer, should lead to changes in patient care, researchers said on Friday.
Nigeria has successfully stopped transmission of polio in the country, the World Health Organization said Friday, a milestone in a longstanding push to eradicate the disease globally.
