Well, that was fast. When was it, exactly, that the African-American football players at the University of Missouri tweeted that they were going on strike until “President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed” from office?
SeaWorld's announcement Monday that it would end its orca shows was greeted with muted praise from some lawmakers and activists who have been clamoring for the park to change its treatment of killer whales.
(CNN) A Louisiana district attorney has recused himself from prosecuting the case of two police officers who allegedly killed a 6-year-old boy while pursuing his father's car.
MILWAUKEE - The Republican presidential candidates aren't the only ones under pressure during Tuesday's debate. The moderators asking the questions will also be coming under intense scrutiny.
WASHINGTON - President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sought on Monday to move beyond their bitter rupture over the Iran nuclear deal, emphasizing in a lengthy White House meeting the strong bonds between their nations ...
The smiling faces of Burmese voters demonstrate an exuberant nation prepared for a new era of democracy and political freedom. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party is poised to win an historic landslide victory in Myanmar's ...
AMMANA Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a U.S.-funded police training facility near Amman on Monday before being killed in a shootout, Jordanian authorities said.
Detainees at an Australian-run detention center on Christmas Island rioted this weekend following the death of a Kurdish Iranian refugee, setting fire to parts of the facility as guards fled early Monday morning, the New York Times reports.
MANILAThe Philippine Supreme Court is expected to decide that a new U.S.-Philippine security agreement is constitutional and will announce its ruling before President Barack Obama visits Manila next week for an Asia-Pacific summit, a source said.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. - The latest on a fiery crash involving a pickup truck and a church van that killed five people (all times local): 5 p.m.. The pastor of a church whose van was involved in a fiery crash outside Washington says the three passengers ...
NEW ORLEANS - President Barrack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally has suffered another setback in court.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25 million lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members "the object of an avalanche of condemnation ...
(AP) - Forecasters are warning 63 million people in the central U.S. to have an eye out for bad weather this week as colliding air masses threaten to generate high winds and possibly tornadoes.
TOKYOAsian shares slipped to one-month lows on Tuesday as the specter of higher borrowing costs in the United States and slower global economic growth prompted investors to trim their exposure to riskier assets.
With the trading desks of investment banks cut to the bone, the ability to pin a fat fee on a fast-growing pile of assets has become the holy grail for financial firms.
Last week President Obama signed into law a budget deal that eliminated a lucrative Social Security strategy for married couples. The strategy, known as file-and-suspend, is when one spouse applies to receive Social Security retirement benefits and ...
Robots To Eat All The Jobs? Hackers, Policy Wonks Collaborate On A Basic Income Createathon This Weekend. On the heels of Facebook's announcement last week that they had surpassed 8 billion daily video views, Snapchat confirmed to the FT over the ...
... * Tag Heuer Connected on sale in U.S., other markets in days. * Costs $1,500, includes incentive to buy mechanical watch. * Signs wearable devices may be taking market share (Adds comments from CEO, watch details; changes dateline, previous ...
Ahead of Apple's iPad Pro preorder kickoff on Wednesday, the company released a new TV spot highlighting the advantages of a gigantic touchscreen, including split screen views in iOS 9 and Apple Pencil markup support.
We are busy and lazy, so we forget to send friends the photos we take of them. But Facebook Messenger's newest feature Photo Magic scans your newly taken photos with facial recognition, and immediately notifies you with an option to send pics to ...
Not again! Tamar Braxton might be forced to withdraw from Dancing with the Stars, a la Kim Zolciak, due to the fact that she might miss tonight's live show.
In an overheated art market where anything seems possible, a painting of an outstretched nude woman by the early 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani sold on Monday night for $170.4 million with fees, in a packed sales room at Christie's.
Khloe Kardashian is no longer constantly at Lamar Odom's bedside, heading back to work to promote her book and hanging out with NBA star James Harden once again.
LOS ANGELESCountry singer Chris Stapleton soared straight to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday after sweeping the Country Music Awards last week with three wins and a lively performance with Justin Timberlake.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - The New England Patriots have put running back Dion Lewis on injured reserve, ending his season one day after a serious injury to his left knee in a win over Washington.
Ken Griffey Jr. and Trevor Hoffman are among 15 newcomers on this year's Hall of Fame ballot and will face a newly trimmed electorate, along with steroid-tainted holdovers Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Ronda Rousey is standing by her recent column in Maxim magazine where she said that "you should never need lube in your life" and said if you need it then you are just being "lazy.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Movie stars. Red carpet. Awards. It's a familiar script. Except that the event here on Sunday night was far from New York and Hollywood, and the boldfaced names were gathered not to celebrate movies or music, but life sciences, ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Icy volcanoes may lie on the southern rim of Pluto's frozen heart. Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have identified two peaks that tower nearly 4 miles (6 kilometers) high over the surface of the dwarf planet, and ...
GENEVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2014 and the relentless fuelling of climate change is endangering the planet for future generations, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday.
When the federal government announced in September that it had abruptly halted a large blood pressure study because its results were so compelling, doctors were left in frustrating limbo.
CHICAGOThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to privately held gene testing company DNA4Life over the company's sale of an unapproved direct-to-consumer gene test to predict drug response.
SUNDAY, Nov. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Heart disease-related deaths among Americans with rheumatoid arthritis are on the decline, according to a new study.
A pedestrian walks past a closed Chipotle restaurant Monday, Nov. 2, in Seattle. (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press). Chipotle restaurants in Washington could reopen as soon as Wednesday after tests found no sign of E. coli linked to an outbreak ...
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