NEAR SINJAR TOWN, IraqKurdish forces who have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from Islamic State militants expect to enter and clear the northern Iraqi town soon, the Kurdistan regional security council said on Thursday.
Vincent Asaro, the reputed mobster charged in connection with the notorious 1978 Lufthansa robbery, walked out of federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday a free man after a jury cleared him of racketeering and other charges.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter has fired his top military aide for allegations of “misconduct,” a highly unusual move prior to a formal investigation into possible misbehavior by the Army general.
BEIRUT - Twin suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State killed dozens of people and wounded more than 200 in Beirut on Thursday, raising fears of intensified attempts by the radical Sunni group to undermine Lebanon's fragile stability.
The pastor husband of a pregnant mom who was found dead in her Indianapolis home is not a suspect in the case, police said today, as they have now offered a reward in hopes of learning the identity of the killer.
WASHINGTONA U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint.
Hillary Clinton's campaign released a video on Thursday attacking the Republican candidates for seeking to roll back President Obama's policies, according to an exclusive preview provided by an aide, in a peek at how the Democratic frontrunner would ...
The results mean the AKP, which has ruled the Muslim-majority country since 2002, will again be able to form a single party government, prompting fears it will allow Erdogan to further tighten his grip on power. The secular, social democratic ...
Washington will not accept Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's proposal to discuss the possibility of the US recognizing Israeli sovereignty over theGolan Heights, a senior White House official told Haaretz on Thursday.
The Federal Reserve has been the GOP's punching bag lately. During their debate this week, Republican presidential candidates alternately blamed the Fed for income inequality, a weak dollar, a strong dollar and a lack of Social Security increases.
Is it really possible that part of a Western European country could break away, without a legally recognised referendum or the consent of that country's government?
Kurdish forces have launched what they say is a major offensive to drive militants of so-called Islamic State out of the town of Sinjar, in the north-west of Iraq.
Current negotiations between the UK and India are a "huge moment for our two great nations", India's PM Narendra Modi has said on his visit to Britain.
Anonymity network Tor, notorious for illegal activity, has claimed that researchers at US Carnegie Mellon university were paid by the FBI to launch an attack on them.
Obesity rates are rising again among American adults, despite national efforts to promote healthy lifestyles. Rates of obesity had been climbing dramatically since the 1980s but started levelling off in about 2004.
In the eyes of many Venezuelans, Cilia Flores, the wife of President Nicolás Maduro, represents a special kind of family values. When she held the powerful post of head of the National Assembly under former president Hugo Chávez, she was accused of ...
WASHINGTONTwo U.S. B52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea this week and were contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued their mission undeterred, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
MALMO, SwedenSwedish police started checking trains for migrants on Thursday, imposing the first large-scale border controls in two decades, a move criticized by one opposition party as ending a tradition of openness and by others as being too little ...
ROMEPolice in six European countries arrested at least 15 suspected members of a militant Islamist group that was planning attacks in Norway and the Middle East, Italian authorities said on Thursday.
(CNN) ISIS on Thursday purportedly released a video and audio statement threatening to attack Russia "very soon." In the nearly five-minute long video, a chant in Russian is heard over visual compilations of old ISIS propaganda and generic video of ...
President Barack Obama, hoping to kick off a new phase of selling the Trans-Pacific Partnership at home while enhancing its prospects overseas, has enlisted some of the nation's top current and former diplomatic and national security officials to give ...
'Some of you are alright. Don't go to campus tomorrow.' Those words propelled Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based messaging app, into the national spotlight after racist threats were posted about the recent protests at the University of Missouri ...
This undated prision photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows death-row inmate Ernest Dwayne Jones, 51, who has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison for two decades.
Students at 110 college campuses across the country planned to walk out of class Thursday to march for an affordable education. The aptly named Million Student March has been months in the making, inspired by national campaigns to boost minimum ...
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - An Atlanta-area sheriff who has long been a magnet for controversy was indicted Thursday on a reckless conduct charge after he shot and critically wounded a woman in what he described as an accident.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is set to receive the unusual honor of christening a Navy submarine -- but not until 2022. Sandberg will christen a new sub, the U.S.
(CNN) A Florida police officer who shot and killed a man whose car had broken down last month has been fired, though an investigation that will determine whether charges will be filed isn't finished, the department that employed him said Thursday.
In the past 24 hours, 20 aircraft were hit by laser beams as they flew over the US, the FAA reported. The pilots of three planes near Dallas reported being hit by laser beams on Wednesday evening.
The Fed's decision to delay raising interest rates has helped to offset the economic headwinds caused by a strengthening U.S. dollar, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said, adding that it “may be appropriate” to raise rates next month.
Hulu LLC, the streaming service owned by three media companies, is in talks to add Time Warner Inc. as a fourth investor, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Bird flu took a bite out of the turkey supply. Heavy rain washed out the pumpkin crop. Yet Thanksgiving groceries likely won't cost Americans much more than last year, and nobody should have to miss gobbling down their favorite holiday ...
Wall Street suffered its worst session in over a month on Thursday as lower commodity prices weighed on energy and materials stocks and comments by a Federal Reserve policymaker hinted at an approaching interest-rate hike.
Viacom Inc is cutting the number of TV advertisements it airs in a bid to boost ratings. But the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon has drawn skepticism by saying the move will also help it raise ad prices.
Windows 10 - image credit: Microsoft. Microsoft MSFT +0.00% has announced that from today computers running Windows 10 will start to receive the largest update to the OS since Microsoft launched it in the summer.
Ellen DeGeneres's A-list pals turned out to celebrate her milestone 2,000th episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday. “I'll tell you something, if someone had told me I was gonna make 2,000 shows, first of all, I would've asked for a lot more ...
Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1” at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Nov. 17, 2014.
If there's two things Vicki Gunvalson always wants in her life, it's a man and a full love tank. For the past 10 seasons, the Real Housewives of Orange County star has shared her love life with cameras giving viewers an inside look into her marriage ...
The Man in the High CastleA woman glimpses a better world and embarks on a journey to understand its mystery. Her adventure is ours, too, but with an ironic twist: The Man in the High Castledrama, Sci-fi, ThrillerA woman glimpses a better world and ...
IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant left the locker room Thursday during the open media access after a prolonged rant aimed at reporters.
Texas A&M has sued the Indianapolis Colts for infringing on its trademark of "12th Man." At a board of regents meeting Thursday, school chancellor John Sharp revealed that Texas A&M filed suit in U.S.
SEATTLE -- Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto is wasting little time in addressing one of his team's most glaring needs. Seattle added to its bullpen Thursday, acquiring 38-year-old right-hander Joaquin Benoit from the San Diego Padres for two minor ...
Within the next few months, the hospital expects to become the first in America to offer a clinical trial of uterus transplants. [LINK: South African Doctors Perform World's First Penis Transplant].
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Safeway is negotiating to dissolve an unannounced partnership with Theranos - the controversial blood testing company that made Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes into a celebrity billionaire - following ...
The antibiotic most commonly used to treat MRSA may actually make the infection worse, a new study finds. The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus -- known to cause "staph" infections, a type of soft tissue bacterial infection -- is a major public health ...
Wisconsin-based Kerri Evensen was undergoing an MRI to see if she could donate part of her liver to Auden, her 4-year-old son (pictured above) stricken with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations.
From sharks to giraffes, many of Earth's biggest and most magnificent species are threatened with extinction. A new study of the fossil record indicates that once large vertebrates disappear, evolution cannot quickly restore them - for tens of ...
Clues in volcanic rocks suggest the origins of Earth's water can be traced back to our planet's birth. By Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Staff writer November 12, 2015.
In the search for an Earth-like exoplanet, scientists appear to have stumbled on one that looks more like Venus. The planet, named GJ 1132b, is orbiting a small star located a mere 39 light-years from Earth, making it the closest Earth-sized exoplanet ...
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