Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi put the Islamic State group on notice Monday that they plan to recapture the city of Mosul within months. If successful, the ...

CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department launched mandatory training designed to help officers de-escalate conflicts, including situations involving the use of force and mental health issues, officials...

PHOENIX - The pilot of a burning plane radioed into the tower to say, “fire on the wing, fire in the airplane,” moments before he bailed out of the aircraft in a parachute and it plunged i...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Ruling that records of college students have a heightened level of privacy protection, the Montana Supreme Court on Monday rejected the wholesale public release of disciplinary recor...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A U.S. permanent resident detained for a year in Iran over spying allegations has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $4.2 million fine, his supporters said Tuesda...

BRISTOW, Va. - Posing for pictures is part of every governor’s job. Posing with a can of marijuana - not so much. But Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe did just that, inadvertently, when he went to ...

CHICAGO - Islamic State militants rarely miss a chance, however tenuous the link, to claim at least partial credit for apparent terrorist attacks on U.S soil, from June’s deadly mass shooting at...

ATLANTA - Gas prices spiked and drivers found “out of service” bags covering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the scattered disruptions ...

NEW YORK - Many people in the New York City area were alerted Monday morning to a screeching, buzzing message about a man wanted in connection with explosions in the area over the weekend. A Saturday ...

Joined by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, a Yazidi woman who described praying for death while being raped by her Islamic State captors called on world leaders Monday to step up efforts to bring the...