An eye-popping and unprecedented Powerball jackpot whose rise to $1.6 billion became a national fascination will be split three ways, by mystery winners in Florida, Tennessee and California.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Lawrence were among the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards, which were announced Thursday morning.
The Obama administration on Thursday quietly transferred 10 Yemeni detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to neighboring Oman - so quietly, in fact, that the news was first reported by state-run Middle East news agencies.
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) Attackers struck in the middle of the day Thursday, in the middle of a busy central Jakarta commercial hub -- killing at least two, wounding 19 and raising alarms about terrorism once more, this time in the world's most ...
Professor Snape is gone but not forgotten. After news broke that Alan Rickman passed away from cancer, his Harry Potter stars turned to social media to react and pay tribute to their fallen friend.
NEAR MADAYA, Syria/BEIRUT/GENEVA Aid supplies on Thursday reached a besieged Syrian town and two trapped villages for the second time this week, raising hopes of further deliveries to help people dying of starvation.
ANKARA Turkish tanks and artillery have bombarded Islamic State positions in Syria and Iraq over the past 48 hours, killing almost 200 of its fighters in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday.
CINAR, Turkey Kurdish militants have attacked a police station in southeast Turkey with a truck bomb, killing six people including a baby and two toddlers, in one of the biggest strikes since the conflict reignited in July, security officials said on ...
Amazingly, in the dead of winter, a rare hurricane is swirling in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Alex, which was named a Subtropical Storm on Wednesday, has steadily strengthened over the past day and is making history as an extraordinarily rare January ...
Italian authorities said they have detained a Senegalese immigrant days after an American woman was discovered dead in her apartment in Florence, Italy.
The fates of the 390 inmates on Florida's death row are uncertain after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state's capital punishment sentencing process.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, one of the most vocal policy makers in recent months arguing to raise interest rates, sounded a more cautious note Thursday by saying the latest decline in oil prices may delay the return of ...
U.S. stocks opened higher on Thursday, rebounding somewhat from their biggest losses in three months. Crude oil prices -one trigger for Wall Street's sharp selloff-attempted to stabilize.
BENGALURU Economic growth is losing momentum across emerging and developed economies as is inflation, with trouble in China now the biggest worry for 2016, according to the overwhelming majority of hundreds of economists polled by Reuters around ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel wants to make clear it's not as dependent on the waning PC market, showcasing with some fanfare how its technology can make shoes, drones, even skateboards smarter.
Microsoft's Xbox Live service went down last night for several hours, prompting the usual storm of angry tweets and outrage. This time, however, upset Xbox gamers had a little help from rapper and Xbox gamer Snoop Dogg, who posted an angry video on ...
Samsung has announced that it has been contracted to make Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor. This could be big news, although it certainly doesn't guarantee that the processor will make its way into the Galaxy S7.
Have you had a moment to collect yourself over the Friends reunion news? Good. Because the amount of other casts reuniting for the James Burrows special on NBC is going to blow your mind.
Nicki Minaj is bowing down to Adele. During an episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, the 27-year-old "Hello" singer surprisingly spit some of the Grammy-winning rappers iconic rap from "Monster," shocking fans worldwide with her flawlessly ...
“American Idol” failed to uncover many potential contenders when auditions rolled into Philadelphia Wednesday night. Instead judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr.
Walt Harris was in his seventh year as the University of Pittsburgh's head football coach, and he had a problem. His library of game film was in complete disarray, making it hard to find tape when it was needed.
The New England Patriots have a playoff game to prepare for this weekend, which means Bill Belichick has zero interest in discussing anything other than the Kansas City Chiefs.
MUNICH - The Latest from the IAAF investigation (all times local): ___. 6:25 p.m.. The International Olympic Committee says it will work closely with the new leadership of track and field's governing body and will "undertake any necessary action" to ...
Dee Gordon #9 of the Miami Marlins in action during an MLB game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on October 4, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Engineers hope that this will allow the tiny machines to one day be used in advanced manufacturing and research. By Lonnie Shekhtman, Staff January 14, 2016.
Killer whales in European waters face extinction due to outlawed but long-lived pollutants that also threaten several species of dolphins, according a study released Thursday.
Using data from the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter, scientists have confirmed the existence of patches of exposed water ice on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
There may be a secret landscape complete with a vast canyon hidden beneath the Antarctic ice sheet -- and the canyon might just be the largest in the world.
MONROVIA Liberia was declared free of the Ebola virus by global health experts on Thursday, a milestone that signaled an end to an epidemic in West Africa that has killed more than 11,300 people.
The agency issued a letter to the maker of drisapersen saying its application does not meet standards for drug efficacy, a week before considering another drug for the condition.
A new study claims to show that parents will buy fewer sugary soft drinks for their children if a warning label advises against it, but the dire warning labels on cigarettes seem to have lost their touch.
