Democrats might look at O’Rourke — a small-business owner with hipster credentials, a Gen Xer who speaks fluent Spanish and looks more like a Kennedy than the Kennedys do — and see a candidate of thrilling national potential, marred only by where he happens to live. But then again, maybe it’s where he lives that makes him exciting.

The Islamic State identified the man who blew himself up in Mosul, Iraq, this week as a British man who was released from the U.S. base in 2004 after being held without trial for two years.

Dresselhaus became one of America’s foremost physicists and worked to encourage other women to enter such seemingly daunting occupations. President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. She was 86.

The fallout of constriction giant Odebrecht is spreading across the region, creating a test for other countries tainted by the company's dirty money.

Fewer than one-third of workers are saving money in their 401(k) accounts, even though nearly 80 percent of employers offer retirement plans. "Not saving enough is a long-held American tradition, right up there with baseball and apple pie," one financial adviser said.

Before he became vice president, Pence’s attempts to keep refugees out of his state were blocked in court. Now, with President Trump’s national ban on hold after a court review, many who resettled in the American heartland feel a familiar sense of dread.

Sabrina De Sousa expects to be extradited within days to Italy, where she faces four years in prison for the 2003 extraordinary rendition of an Egyptian cleric in Milan.

At a time when Arctic blasts usually sweep across the nation and Northern states are covered in snow and ice, historically warm air has flooded the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. More than 2,800 record highs have occurred this month, compared with just 27 record lows.