WASHINGTON - President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson - now making the transition from living legend to scrutinized candidate - faced new questions Friday about the way he tells his powerful life story.
Washington (CNN) The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take up a challenge from religious non-profit groups -- including the Little Sisters of the Poor-- to the Affordable Care Act and the requirement that group health plans provide a ...
MARIANA, BrazilRescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for dozens of people missing after a pair of dams collapsed at a Brazilian mine owned by two of the world's biggest iron ore producers.
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Martin P. Welch handed down a ruling Friday saying that the 1999 case, in which Syed was convicted of murdering Hae Min Lee, will be reopened based on new witness testimony for Asia McClain (emphasis is ours):.
All of it was filmed. The police chase of an SUV after dark on a weeknight. The shots fired. The driver, struck in the head. His son, 6 years old, shot dead in the front seat.
Maddow pressed the candidates to explain why Democrats have struggled to win and hold onto elected offices in South Carolina and other Southern states - a topic of debate in the national Democratic Party, which saw its candidates lose by greater ...
Official statements, mostly those congratulating Turkey's Justice and Development (AK) Party on its electoral victory, poured into Ankara from around the world Monday.
Washington (CNN) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to Washington on Monday seeking to mend his relationship with President Barack Obama after the Israeli leader's controversial address on Iran to Congress eight months ago soured ties ...
A search is under way for a fisherman who was seen falling into the River Tawe in Swansea. The incident happened shortly after midnight on Saturday at Tawe lock gates at the city's marina.
A man has been found dead in a car police believe may have been involved in a crash six hours earlier. The 20-year-old's body was discovered in a Peugeot 106 in Yateley, Hampshire, at 08:00 GMT.
A second person has been charged with murder after human remains were found at a property in Montrose. The remains have now been identified as those of Kim MacKenzie, 37, from Montrose.
More than 30 people had to be evacuated from their homes in north London while firefighters tackled a warehouse blaze. The clothing warehouse and an adjacent building in Pretoria Road, Tottenham, were gutted in the blaze that started at about 21:50 GMT ...
A man has appeared in court in the Republic of Ireland charged in connection with the theft of a cash machine in County Armagh. The ATM was taken from the shop near Newry at about 03:30 GMT on Friday.
But property guardian schemes may provide relief to some in the English capital. These offer temporary occupancy in unused commercial spaces for about a third of London rental market prices.
A national minimum bedroom size could be introduced under plans to combat overcrowding and rogue landlords. Local authorities in England could ban rooms smaller than 6.5 sq m from being let as bedrooms in licence applications for multiple occupancy ...
An investigation has started into a large fire at a furnishing store in Leeds city centre. About 50 firefighters tackled the blaze at Hill's Furnishing Stores on the junction of Kirkgate and New York Street overnight.
WASHINGTONThe U.S. Navy deliberately avoided military drills or other actions that could have further inflamed tensions with Beijing during a patrol last week near islands China has built in the South China Sea, U.S.
Wielding a knife from his pulpit in a sermon streamed on the Iternet last month, Palestinian Sheikh Muhammad Salakh called for followers to take up butcher knives and attack Israelis.
Russia, on the surface, appears strong and triumphant in diplomatic meetings and its military adventures in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems confident about his ability to impose one fait accompli after the other on all sides.
Insurgents in Syria used sulfur mustard in August, which probably resulted in the death of an infant, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Friday.
BERLINThe leaders of Germany's ruling coalition parties, struggling with the biggest influx of migrants in decades, clinched an agreement on Thursday on how to speed up the asylum process for those with little chance of being allowed to stay.
NEW DELHI: Underworld don Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan has made startling revelations during his questioning by the joint interrogation team of Intelligence Bureau, R&AW, CBI and Special Cell officials in Delhi.
Entertainment shows are usually a safe haven for presidential candidates - a place to guffaw, dance and otherwise escape the hard questioning and fact-checking of the news media.
Former President George W. Bush, right, talks to his father President George H.W. Bush during the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
State Rep. John Bel Edwards campaign will run an advertisement drawing attention to his military service and U.S. Sen. David Vitter's prostitution scandal during the LSU-Alabama game Saturday, Nov. 7. Print Email · NOLA.
ROCK HILL, S.C. - It wasn't a debate - technically. But as the candidates sat in the bright red hot seat one after the other during a Friday night Democratic candidate forum in South Carolina, they were given plenty of opportunities to swipe at the ...
Two months after a county clerk in Kentucky became a national figure and was jailed for refusing to grant marriage licenses bearing her name to same-sex couples, the state's governor-elect said Friday that soon after taking office, he would order new ...
Children of same-sex couples will not be able to join the Mormon Church until they turn 18 - and only if they move out of their parents' homes, disavow all same-sex relationships and receive approval from the church's top leadership as part of a new ...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie won't be allowed on the main stage at the GOP presidential debate on Fox News Tuesday night. He failed to rank among the eight candidates with the most support in national polls, and the network relegated him to the ...
NEW YORKA near century-old statute that gives New York state prosecutors unusually broad authority to prosecute securities fraud could prove a powerful weapon as Attorney General Eric Schneiderman probes Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.
Strong growth in the number of U.S. jobs last month bolstered the case for a December interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, where officials had already begun to worry the economy might eventually overheat without higher borrowing costs.
The bond market is beginning to warm up to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's message on interest rates. Friday's better-than-forecast jobs report sent Treasury yields soaring and prompted futures traders to increase bets that the Fed will raise its ...
Billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen on Friday disclosed a 6% stake in Weight Watchers, joining media mogul Oprah Winfrey in throwing a lifeline to the weight-loss company.
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 30: Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Visits FOX Business Networks' "Opening Bell With Maria Bartiromo" at FOX Studios on April 30, 2015 in New York City.
SAN FRANCISCO - Square plans on pricing its initial public offering at between $11 and $13 a share, a conservative valuation that reflects Wall Street's growing caution on technology debuts.
NEW YORKWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) said quarterly profit doubled to a record high, reflecting a large gain on its stake in Kraft Heinz Co (KHC.
Disney veteran Nick van Dyk, now co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios, explains the power of video game across all media. On the heels of its plan to acquire Candy Crush maker King Digital Studios for $5.9 billion, Activision Blizzard has gone ...
Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., announces Nov. 6, 2015, during a news conference in Tokyo that Toyota will establish a new artificial intelligence research and development company.
Facebook-owned Instagram is reportedly testing ads that exploit two of Apple's most recent technologies, 3D Touch and Apple Pay, as part of a broader effort to reap more cash from the photo-sharing service.
For years, Apple TV has been like a perpetually ignored child, eclipsed by its overachieving siblings, the iPhone and iPad. Design-wise, it hasn't changed at all since 2010, and it's been shackled with one of the most archaic Apple interfaces around ...
With her divorce filing still fresh, Halle Berry isn't staying out of the public eye like so many celebs would be: She hit the "Spectre" red carpet on Tuesday, a fundraising gala on Wednesday and a celeb-packed video-game premiere Thursday.
It's already a well-known fact that North West easily takes the title as Best Dressed Toddler in Hollywood, and it looks like her little brother is about to follow closely in her footsteps.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt materialized like some wedding-cake vision of man-and-wife perfection at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theater Thursday night to introduce their latest joint effort By the Sea.
With Bob Dylan's longstanding bootleg series and its elongated contextualization of his universally lauded craft, the scholarly reconsideration of archival recordings has become something of a cottage industry for our most famous bard, as well it should.
Take a look, sports fans. Take a good look at the 48 photos Deadspin has put online of the battered and bruised body of Greg Hardy's former girlfriend, Nicole Holder.
Ronda Rousey has raised a lot of eyebrows from sex experts and businesses in the industry with her recent advice that "you should never need lube in your life.
Last Sunday's prime-time showdown of undefeateds was surprisingly one-sided, with the Denver Broncos stifling the Green Bay Packers defensively and turning back the clock on offense - highlighted by C.J.
A woman in Massachusetts gave birth to an 8-lb. baby girl Wednesday after going to the hospital for abdominal pain. Judy Brown had no idea she was in labor when she arrived at the hospital.
According to a study by Cornell. Soda and sweets aren't making Americans fat. In fact, underweight Americans consume more junk food than those who are morbidly obese.
A San Jose restaurant worker has tested positive for shigella, but Santa Clara County health experts say the employee was not the source of a big bacterial outbreak.
Research from San Diego State University analyzed more than 30 years of data and found the conventional idea that happiness grows as we age may no longer necessarily be true.
Two American astronauts took a marathon spacewalk on Friday, spending nearly eight hours outside the International Space Station on a truly out-of-this-world plumbing job.
STOCKHOLM - The U.N.'s environmental authority has quietly raised its assessment of the level at which global greenhouse gas emissions must peak to avoid dangerous climate change, as governments seek a new accord to fight global warming.
In this Oct. 29, 2015 photo provided by Robert DePalma, DePalma, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, examines the fierce foot claw of a newly discovered species of raptor called Dakotaraptor in West Palm ...
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