North Carolina lawmakers failed Wednesday to repeal a law regulating transgender people's use of public restrooms, despite convening in a special legislative session for the express purpose of rescinding the controversial law.
Anis Amri is wanted by German police in connection with the Berlin Christmas market attack. Credit German Federal Police. BERLIN - Investigators undertook a Europe-wide manhunt on Wednesday for a young Tunisian ex-convict with multiple aliases who ...
Marillyn A. Hewson, left, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, met with Donald J. Trump, the president-elect, at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday.
The death toll of the massive explosion at Mexico's best-known fireworks market climbed to 32 on Wednesday as authorities worked to identify the dead and treat the dozens injured in the stunning incident.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Wednesday was named special adviser to the president on overhauling federal regulations. Mr. Icahn, who has spent the past four decades battling big companies as an activist investor, already has been wielding ...
MOSCOW - The Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump's administration will help improve the strained Russia-U.S. ties that it describes as "frozen," but it doesn't expect any immediate breakthroughs, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Wednesday.
SYDNEY - A van carrying gas cylinders exploded outside the headquarters of a Christian lobbying group in Australia's capital, though there did not appear to be any political or religious motivations behind the incident, police said Thursday.
Defense officials are weighing whether to use military options to rescue a Canadian-American couple and their two children seen in a Taliban propaganda video, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday.
A "significant storm system" is expected to move through the northern Plains on Christmas Day, bringing whiteout conditions and driving winds that could make travel "very difficult to impossible," the National Weather Service said Wednesday.
Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's polarizing first campaign manager, is not joining the White House and is instead launching a political consulting firm along with former Trump adviser Barry Bennett.
A University of Michigan student who told police that a stranger threatened to set her on fire if she didn't remove her hijab could soon face a felony charge for false reporting.
The 62-year-old quadruple amputee received an unexpected gift from Mark Holden, general counsel at Koch Industries, and his wife when the couple gave her new electronic hands worth $260,000.
JACKSON, Miss. - The Latest on an arrest in a Mississippi church burning (all times local):. 5 p.m.. State records show a criminal record for a man charged in the burning of a Mississippi church that was also spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump.
Hershey has named 11-year veteran Michele Buck to serve as the chocolate maker's next president and CEO, an appointment that comes at a time when Big Food manufacturers find themselves challenged by smaller startup rivals.
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named billionaire investor Carl Icahn and vocal China critic Peter Navarro as high-level White House advisers, leaning on controversial figures from his campaign to help shape his economic agenda.
More Americans have signed up to have health plans through the Affordable Care Act as of Jan. 1 than in previous years, despite spiking insurance prices and a pledge by President-elect Donald Trump to dismantle the law.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has again been labeled a haven for knockoffs with an embarrassing return to a U.S. blacklist for fakes just four years after getting its name removed.
An international patent dispute has broken out between Apple and Nokia over the Finnish mobile network vendor's licensing terms for the widely used H.264 video codec and other technologies.
Amid rumors suggesting Apple is planning on introducing at least one iPhone model with a flexible OLED display in 2017, Bloomberg has taken a closer look at Japanese company Canon Tokki, the corporation responsible for making the machines that will ...
Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it is talking to Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., to try to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker's cars.
Moments after Super Mario Run launched on iOS devices last week, Nintendo fans began wondering if and when the company might bring the classic 2D Mario games to mobile devices.
Doug Herzog was one of the original producers and programming executives at MTV in the 1980s, developing the shows that would become the cable channel's first successful steps away from an all music videos, all the time lineup.
When actor/writer/producer/composer/talk show host/Growing Pains paterfamilias Alan Thicke passed away last week at the age of 69, the tributes began to pour in.
The most dramatic postshow ever! Disney-ABC Television Group is launching a number of original episodic series on Snapchat, starting with an aftershow for long-running dating series The Bachelor, the company announced on Wednesday, December 21.
Looks like Grayson Allen is back to his old tricks: the talented Duke guard was caught tripping an Elon player on Wednesday, and received a technical foul for it.
ESPN legal analyst Roger Cossack discusses the legal impact of the newly released police interview of Joe Mixon, and ESPN Big 12 writer Jake Trotter provides the reaction in Oklahoma as critics are questioning how this has been handled by the Sooners.
The security guard who was fired after apparently masturbating during a San Diego Chargers game on Sunday first touched himself prior to the game - and then tried again during halftime, according to a woman who caught the disturbing act on video.
Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen tablets a day, but there's a lot to be said for manufacturing common drugs on a small scale, close to where they're used.
People walk in heavy smog during a polluted day in Jinan, Shandong province, China, December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer. SHANGHAI China launched a satellite to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions early on Thursday, the latest step in efforts to cut ...
READ THE ARTICLE CAREFULLY AND IDENTIFY THE THREE SPECIES ABOVE. THE FIRST IS A SNAKE, THE SECOND A NEWT AND THIRD A LIZARD. AFP. Bangkok: December 20, 2016 00:00 IST.
The Italian name for the caldera - Campi Flegrei, or “burning fields”— is apt. The 7.5-mile-wide cauldron is the collapsed top of an ancient volcano, formed when the magma within finally blew.
WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of a congressional panel wrapping up its investigation into the medical and business practices of abortion providers said Wednesday it has submitted 15 criminal referrals to federal and state officials for further ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Many women with early stage breast cancer choose to have their healthy opposite breast removed, even when there are no medical indications that such a step is necessary, a new survey finds.
A drug activated by laser light successfully destroys early prostate cancer while avoiding side effects that commonly occur with surgery, trial results have shown.
