Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker who died while being held captive by ISIS, was repeatedly raped by the terror group's leader in Syria, her family confirmed Friday.
DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the midst of lambasting the Republican candidates for president on women's issues here Friday afternoon when she added "George Bush" to her target list.
WASHINGTON - F.B.I. agents investigating Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server are seeking to determine who at the State Department passed highly classified information from secure networks to Mrs. Clinton's personal account, according to law ...
HAVANA - Secretary of State John F. Kerry presided over the official reopening of the U.S. embassy to Cuba under a blazing Caribbean sun Friday morning, declaring an end to “too many days of sacrifice and sorrow, too many days of suspicion and fear” ...
TOKYO - In his highly anticipated speech Friday marking the 70th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stopped short of delivering a full-throated apology for his country's wartime actions - and ended up fully ...
Rukimini Callimachi has told the stories of those held as prisoners of the Islamic State before. This week, her front page article detailed the kidnapping, enslaving and ISIS-sanctioned rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority.
A Dona Ana County bomb squad robot is deployed to examine a suspicious package at the First Presbyterian Church, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Las Cruces, N.M.
NEW YORK The man who shot and wounded a firefighter during a six-hour standoff with authorities fled his New York home on Friday, opening fire on police, who returned it and shot him dead, law enforcement said.
Shares of food distribution company Sysco Corp. shot up 7% Friday on news that billionaire hedge fund manager, Nelzon Peltz, has taken a large stake and is pushing for changes that could boost the stock.
The push and pull between a looming increase in interest rates and improving finances is leaving U.S. households numb. The University of Michigan's preliminary August consumer sentiment index was little changed at 92.9 compared with a final reading of ...
FILE - This April 9, 2015 file photo shows the south portal of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev. Federal regulators say a key report about the long-studied national nuclear waste dump in Nevada finds just a small chance ...
Goldman Sachs is swapping one too-big-to-fail problem for another. The Wall Street company is buying an online banking platform and $16 billion of deposits from GE Capital.
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple's self-driving car effort, code-named Project Titan , is more reality than rumor, according to documents obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian.
Thanks to Apple updating Boot Camp, that is. If you have had a hankering to try out Microsoft's latest operating system - and I can recommend at least taking it for a spin - now's the time.
No, there is no limit to Google's ambition. Any lingering doubts should have been swept away by this week's news that it is remaking itself as Alphabet, a holding company for some of mankind's grandest technology challenges.
Just a day after teasing its upcoming smartwatch at its Unpacked event, Samsung's Gear S2 wearable has appeared beside alien-like models in its first photo shoot.
Miley Cyrus is again ruing her days on Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana." The "Wrecking Ball" singer sky-rocketed to fame playing the eponymous child pop star, but in the years since the show went off the air, the self-proclaimed "weed-smoking, ...
You're probably well aware of this fact by now, but Simon Pegg is multitalented. Not only is he an actor, he's also an experienced, decorated screenwriter—he was tasked with writing Star Trek Beyond recently—and these skills came in handy on Star ...
Terrence Howard tearfully told a judge Friday that his ex-wife repeatedly threatened to leak damaging information about him to get him to sign a divorce settlement in 2012.
BOSTON (AP) - Red Sox manager John Farrell said Friday that he had a "very treatable" form of cancer and would take a medical leave to deal with lymphoma.
The Houston Astros have been without their energetic slugging outfielder George Springer since July 2, because of a broken wrist suffered in a game versus the Royals.
QUITO, Ecuador - Four blasts inside the Cotopaxi volcano sent ash shooting more than two miles (five kilometers) in the sky Friday, coating highways, homes and cars just south of Ecuador's capital with a fine gray powder.
A new report finds coal plants far outside of cities is responsible for much of the air pollution in China's cities. China spent a jaw-dropping $80 billion last year on clean energy, including wind projects and solar farms.
(Corrects dateline to Aug 14 from Aug 13). Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of opioid painkiller OxyContin in patients aged 11 to 16 who have not benefited enough from alternatives.
