WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Monday began to close ranks behind a vow by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to block consideration of any nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died over the weekend, for the remainder of ...
With a quartet of honors, Kendrick Lamar ruled rap at the Grammy Awards Monday night while Taylor Swift continued to be pop music's resident super-starlet and glitterbomber.
KIEV/BEIRUT Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a town ...
North Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) George W. Bush returned to the presidential campaign trail on Monday night to campaign for Jeb Bush, telling voters in South Carolina that his brother has the "experience and character to be a great president.
A Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic reopened on Monday, seeing patients nearly three months after a deadly shooting rampage at the facility left three people dead and nine wounded.
Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York in 2008 amid reports that he was a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, is now at the center of a new criminal investigation, according to officials, after a 26-year-old woman said that he ...
BRUSSELS - After decades of often unbridled expansion and increasing prosperity, the once-robust European Union is this week looking at its biggest challenge - crumbling from within, says EU President Donald Tusk.
JERUSALEM - Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday began a 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice, defiantly proclaiming his innocence in a farewell video as he became the first Israeli premier to be placed behind bars.
The European Union's eastern members agreed that should a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees into Europe fail, the bloc should have a "plan B" that would seal Greece's northern borders.
Cmdr. Chris Sheehan of the Australian Federal Police stands by a display of confiscated drugs in Sydney on Feb. 15, 2016. Cmdr. Chris Sheehan of the Australian Federal Police stands by a display of confiscated drugs in Sydney on Feb. 15, 2016.
Missouri Republican lawmakers on Monday renewed a call for the University of Missouri to fire Melissa Click, the assistant professor caught on video calling for “muscle” to remove a student journalist from a protest area last November.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - President Obama welcomed the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations Monday for a two-day summit that marks an unprecedented bid to deepen U.S.
Homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of three women whose bodies were found at a Hawaiian Gardens home Monday morning, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Comcast Corp. said Monday afternoon that it had restored "almost all services" disrupted in a widespread national outage on its network earlier in the day.
Top oil officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and several key OPEC members will meet on Tuesday for their highest-level discussion in months, a potentially pivotal sign that producers are at last preparing to tackle a devastating supply glut.
The volatility playing havoc with European bank stocks in recent weeks is primarily due to market nerves about the slowdown in global growth rather than misperceptions about the direction of financial regulation, European Central Bank President Mario ...
Coca-Cola executives have a reason to smile. For years, they've battled an anti-soda trend. But now they are starting to see global soda volume rise - and the reason may actually be a lesson about why less is more.
There's not much we don't know about the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones. The duo are expected to be announced by Samsung at its February 21 media event.
Today Microsoft launched their fourth phone in the x50 series, with the Lumia 650 being the latest Lumia to roll out of what used to be Nokia's smartphone business.
Mattel is getting super creative this year by giving more freedom to the toy experts of the world: kids. At this year's New York Toy Fair trade show, the company announced its new ThingMaker, a $300 3D printer that will let kids make their own toys ...
You could always watch Hulu on your PC or Mac, or for that matter, on multiple other mobile devices. Now the streaming service wants to integrate much deeper, using Windows 10 as its launchpad.
After making a reference to being "$53 million dollars in personal debt," the rapper voiced his opinions on money, fame, his new album The Life of Pablo and more wide-ranging topics on Monday.
The performances at this year's Grammy Awards found stars once again joining ranks both to cross-promote and to nod to their predecessors, including a few we lost recently.
0215-denise-matthews-vanity-getty-4 Vanity, lead singer of the '80s girl group Vanity 6, has died after years of battling kidney failure and, more recently, an abdominal illness.
We'll show you how much has changed in five years. It's hard to believe that Justin Bieber made his first red carpet appearance at the Grammy Awards back in 2011.
After a two-month stint in free agency, highly touted bantamweight Aljamain Sterling has re-upped with the UFC. The undefeated Sterling (12-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) announced the news today on “The MMA Hour,” bringing to end a highly publicized period of ...
After a bad road loss two nights earlier, the Islanders were glad to return home and get back to winning. Brock Nelson had a goal and an assist in a three-goal second period, and the Islanders beat the Detroit Red Wings, 4-1, on Monday at Barclays Center.
Paris St.-Germain has played 38 games in various competitions this season. But its current campaign shifts into a new stage - some would argue its most important stage - with the start of the Champions League knockout rounds on Tuesday.
We all are familiar with the force of gravity. But, where do the gravitational waves fit in the picture? On September 14, 2015 at 5:51 am ET, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), detected the gravitational waves for the first time.
Lena Struwe, associate professor of botany in the Rutguers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, discovered a new species of flower that was trapped in fossils of amber, after comparing it to the 200 known species of the genus Strychnos ...
University of Zimbabwe students protesting outside parliament call for the resignation of President Robert Mugabe May 29. The day and a half protest against government corruption ended when riot police baton charged the crowd in the city centre.
CBSNEWS (HealthDay) - A popular class of heartburn medications might raise a senior's risk of dementia, a new study suggests. Called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), this group of drugs includes Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid.
(CNN) In Spanish, mosquito translates to "little gnat," but its impact on history has been far from miniscule. In just the most recent example, mosquitoes are spreading the Zika virus throughout South and Central Americas, causing an increased ...
MONDAY, Feb. 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of 3D printer may be capable of making muscle, bone and other types of tissue that are good enough for implanting in humans, scientists report.
The Jamaican Ministry of Health released a very different kind of public service announcement today using plenty of song and dance to get its point across about the ongoing Zika virus outbreak.
