The storm pummeling the East Coast with snow and blustery winds continued to wreak havoc on air travel, canceling thousands of flights throughout the weekend.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, is considering making an independent bid for the presidency, a move that could provide yet another wild turn in a 2016 race that has already seen more than its share of them.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson have made their Christian faith and the kind of issues that motivate faith-based voters a central part of their pitches to Iowa's heavily evangelical Republican caucus-goers.
VANCOUVER/WINNIPEG The remote, northern Canadian community where a shooter killed four people and injured several others on Friday has long struggled under the weight of poverty, high suicide rates and disadvantages that most of the country can ...
WASHINGTON - When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the covert operation.
The Duquesne men's basketball team and the Temple women's gymnastics team are still looking to get out of the snow after being stranded in traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike overnight because of the blizzard affecting the eastern United States.
ISTANBUL U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria should the Syrian government and rebels fail to reach a political settlement.
The lifting of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran passed as if it were a non-event. The UN Security Council bestowed immediate legitimacy on the move in accordance with the nuclear deal it had stamped with its seal of compliance.
PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti braced for more demonstrations against outgoing President Michel Martelly on Saturday even after authorities buckled to pressure and canceled a presidential election the opposition said was riddled with fraud.
This month's arrest of a 21-year-old University of Virginia student in North Korea may have been shocking, but it was only the latest reported case of a Westerner held in that isolated nation.
All outdoor subways in New York will shut down at 4 p.m. due to the heavy winter storm, the city announced. Underground subway operations will continue as feasible.
There are two large questions as the Democratic campaign in Iowa enters its final days. One is whether Sen. Bernie Sanders can generate a significant turnout among first-time caucus attendees.
Authorities have released the name of a 5-year-old boy who was shot and killed while riding in the back seat of his father's car in southern Wisconsin.
As the stock and commodities markets continue trying to make paupers of energy investors everywhere, many investors are undoubtedly unnerved by the volatility.
Items on the breakfast menu are posted at a McDonald's restaurant in New York in 2012. Items on the breakfast menu are posted at a McDonald's restaurant in New York in 2012.
Purchases of previously owned U.S. homes rose more than projected in December, helped in part by warmer weather and wrapping up the best year since 2006.
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The veteran Apple employee who has been running Apple's secret vehicle program for the past two years is leaving the company. According to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Steve Zadesky is allegedly departing for personal reasons—the ...
One of the great travesties of the digital age is that some excellent games and programs eventually become effectively unusable. Technology marches forward while those games and apps get lost to the ages.
Take Swiss Army Man, the new film starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival yesterday. The festival guide describes the movie as such: “Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever ...
From left: 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' stars Jack Huston, Sally Phillips, Millie Brady, Matt Smith, Ellie Bamber, Bella Heathcote, Lily James and Douglas Booth at the film's premiere.
PARIS - It was all about the celebrities and the parties at Paris Fashion Week menswear shows Saturday as the buzz around the French capital geared up ahead of the weekend change-over to the glamorous haute couture season.
Patriots WR Julian Edelman vs. Broncos CB Chris Harris. Edelman's return against the Kansas City Chiefs last week helped turn the Patriots offense back around just in time for its meeting with the Broncos' top-ranked defense.
TEL AVIV (AP) - The Cleveland Cavaliers suddenly have far fewer fans in Israel after the firing of David Blatt. The shock announcement on Friday, despite the second-year coach leading the Cavs to the NBA Finals a year ago and to the top of the Eastern ...
At the height of the mania that surrounded outfielder Yoenis Cespedes after his trade to the Mets last season, some people talked of a $200 million contract in his future and debated if he should be considered for the National League's Most Valuable ...
A Namib Desert beetle helped scientists unlock the key to preventing or slowing frost. The solution is the latest in a growing trend of nature-inspired technology.
New research appears to discredit the age-old theory that zebras' stripes help them evade predators. But if this hypothesis no longer holds up to scrutiny, what alternatives exist?
The U.S. military wants to build a brain modem that allows you to control objects by willpower. How realistic is it? The U.S. military is beginning work on a new “implantable neural interface” that it hopes will allow wearers to transmit data back and ...
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Packaged salads produced at a Dole facility in Ohio are linked to one death in Michigan. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that 12 people in six states have been hospitalized in the outbreak.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Two Latin American countries are investigating whether outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus are behind a rise in a rare and sometimes life-threatening nerve condition that can cause paralysis and leave victims on life-support.
It's an uplifting news story: one of two conjoined twins is headed home after 13 months of recovery form multiple surgeries, and his brother is recovering fine as well.
More than four decades ago, former president Richard Nixon declared a "War On Cancer." Just last month, President Obama launched the latest salvo in the conflict by appointing Vice President Joe Biden launch a "moonshot" in the fight to find a cure for ...
