This story has been updated. Martin Shkreli has left the building. Shkreli, the former chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who gained notoriety for jacking up a little-known drug's price, was excused from a House hearing on drug prices after he ...
Days before votes are cast in the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are locked in a battle over what it means to be a progressive.
JERUSALEM - An Israeli court sentenced two Israelis on Thursday for the 2014 murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian, sending one to life in prison for a crime that prompted deep soul-searching in Israel and that was part of a series of events that led to ...
When President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday in his first visit to a mosque during his presidency, he issued a sharp rebuke to the entertainment industry.
This undated photo provided by the Blacksburg Police Department shows Virginia Tech student David Eisenhauer, who was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Nicole Madison Lovell.
CONCORD, N.H. - Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination has struggled to keep pace with rivals, will cut more than 50 staff positions Thursday as part of an overhaul and downsizing of his campaign.
At a one-day donor meeting in London, leaders and diplomats from 20 countries around the world have gathered to pledge funds to help victims of the ongoing crisis in Syria.
STOCKHOLM/LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid rape investigation in Sweden amounts to 'arbitrary detention', a United Nations panel will rule on Friday.
In Geneva, the High National Committee - which opposes the Syrian regime - is meeting with a United Nations envoy and a delegation representing the government of President Bashar al-Assad with the hope that a peaceful settlement of the Syrian civil ...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW/LONDON Russia said on Thursday it suspected Turkey was preparing a military incursion into Syria, as a Syrian army source said Aleppo would soon be encircled by government forces with Russian air support.
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - Bomb threats to a Wisconsin county sheriff's office that made an apparent reference to "getting justice" for the convict profiled in the popular Netflix series "Making a Murderer" are the latest in a long string of threats made ...
The four remaining occupiers at an Oregon wildlife refuge are facing charges, according to court documents released Thursday that say more than a dozen armed activists threatened violence against federal authorities and used social media to urge others ...
HOUSTON - The Latest on the anti-abortion activists charged in the making of Planned Parenthood videos (all times local): 1:25 p.m.. A Planned Parenthood official says “the wheels of justice have only begun to roll” in reference to the court ...
LANSING, Mich. - Internal emails show that high-ranking officials in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's administration were aware of a surge in Legionnaires' disease potentially linked to Flint's water long before the governor reported the increase to the ...
Michael Ferro, majority owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, has become the largest shareholder in Chicago-based Tribune Publishing, parent company of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other major daily newspapers.
NEW YORK Global equity markets rose on Thursday as diminished expectations of U.S. interest rate hikes this year pushed the dollar lower, which in turned boosted the prices of commodities.
WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, suggesting some loss of momentum in the labor market amid a sharp economic slowdown and stock market selloff.
Vice's Shane Smith Asks, "You Think I Could Hoodwink Bob Iger, Jeff Bewkes and Rupert Murdoch?" Michael Wolff on Digital Media's Favorite Analyst: Often Quoted ... and Often Wrong · How YouTube Aims to Persuade Millennials to Pay for Programming ...
Twelve years ago Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with a simple dream: to have everyone spending as much time as possible clicking around on his website.
WASHINGTON/DETROIT Continental Automotive Systems said Thursday it supplied potentially defective air bag control units to 5 million vehicles used by Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, and three other manufacturers built over a five-year period ...
Benjamin Millepied, shown in 2012, will leave his job as director of dance at the Paris Opera at the end of the current season, which finished in summer.
Dan Stevens is getting ready to return to TV in a role that will find him hated and feared. That's an X-Men reference. The Downton Abbey veteran has signed on to star in FX's Legion pilot, based on the character from Marvel's X-Men comic books.
George Clooney and wife Amal are the picture of grace and beauty on the red carpet - but George has just revealed his marriage proposal was quite the opposite.
Playboy offered a sneak peak at what the magazine's first non-nude issue will look like on Thursday. The March 2016 issue will be released next week and will no longer include images of fully nude women.
SAN FRANCISCO - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league is going to institute a Rooney rule for women when it comes to all NFL executive positions.
Tony Stewart will not win a Daytona 500 during his Sprint Cup career, as he will miss the start of his final Sprint Cup season to recover from a broken back suffered Sunday while riding a dune buggy in California.
Note: This is one of our two Super Bowl 50 Key Matchups posts. Each post will focus on the most important factor when one of the two Super Bowl teams has the ball.
Hills of water ice on Pluto 'float' in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs in Earth's Arctic Ocean—another example of Pluto's fascinating geological activity.
House Republican Brian Babin chaired a hearing in which experts said NASA's plans for Mars lacked real substance. NASA. For the last half-decade, NASA has resolutely declared that it has embarked on a Journey to Mars.
Scientists have discovered an insect that went extinct for more than 120 million years and featured many of the traits associated with modern butterflies including markings on the wing called eye spots.
RIO DE JANEIRO - With no hope for a vaccine to prevent Zika in the near future, authorities are focusing on the most effective way to combat the virus: killing the mosquito that carries it.
It's ethically OK to investigate mitochondrial replacement in humans so long as certain safeguards are in place, according a US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report.
