Democrats hammered Rep. Tom Price's stock trades and "sweetheart deals," but the Health and Human Services secretary-designate survived a contentious hearing Wednesday that seemed designed to slow, if not stall, his confirmation to a role in which he ...
President Barack Obama has defended his decision to free Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning, 29 years before her scheduled release. He told his final news conference that "justice has been served".
“There is an ugly history to that that we should not be shy about talking about.” 01/18/2017 04:02 pm ET. 320. Sam Levine Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post.
A Nigerian fighter jet accidentally bombed a camp for displaced people on Tuesday while searching for Boko Haram militants. The attack killed scores of people, with at least a dozen of them humanitarian workers.
Like some latter-day Basil Fawlty, Boris Johnson mentioned the War and didn't get away with it. The foreign secretary urged the French president not to "administer punishment beatings" on Britain for choosing to escape the EU "rather in the manner of ...
MOSCOW - The Russian military said Wednesday it has teamed up with Turkey to conduct joint airstrikes, coordinated with Damascus, against an Islamic State group's stronghold in northern Syria.
Most of the attention given to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll has centered on the finding that Donald Trump will take office as the most unliked president of the last four decades, making him historically unpopular.
After Betsy DeVos' Senate confirmation hearing yesterday - all three hours and change - we know a little more about Donald Trump's pick to be the next education secretary.
Oakland, California (CNN) The widow of the man who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub last year pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Oakland, California, on Wednesday to allegations that she aided her husband ahead of the massacre.
A Jewish community center in Marin County was one of several centers across the nation to receive bomb threats Wednesday. Staffers at Osher Marin Jewish Community Center received the threatening call at 8:45 a.m.
Amid concerns from rural Republicans on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump · Donald TrumpCummings: I will attend Trump's inauguration Trump Treasury pick to defend foreclosure record in opening remarks Senators looking for deal on Trump's ...
Netflix Inc. signed up a record 7.05 million new customers in the fourth quarter, topping analysts' estimates for domestic and international growth to cap the company's first year as a global online TV service.
Steve Mnuchin Steven Mnuchin, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's reported choice for U.S. Treasury Secretary, speaks to members of the news media upon his arrival at Trump Tower in New York.
Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday, local time. The court declined to arrest him in connection with the corruption scandal in South Korea.
Google is taking over Twitter's mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system and FastLane development automation system.
Folks on tight budgets may get another Android option to choose from if Google brings a supercheap Android One phone to the US. The report comes by way of tech blog The Information, whose original story lives behind a paywall.
The 10-episode comedy will bring the original stars and creators back to the network during the 2017-18 broadcast season. It's official: Will & Grace is returning to NBC.
After about six weeks of discussion, evaluation and arguing, we'll find out Wednesday which players will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.
Bill Polian is concerned the news that the 49ers plan to offer Kyle Shanahan a head coaching job will hurt the Falcons in their preparations for the NFC Championship Game.
Lucas Leiva celebrates after scoring the opener for Liverpool against Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup. Liverpool emerged victorious from their FA Cup third-round replay with Plymouth Argyle, as Jurgen Klopp's team advanced with a nervy 1-0 win.
The year 2016 was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials said today (Jan. 18).
Ice in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea region. “What's going on in the Arctic is really very impressive; this year was ridiculously off the chart,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
A child born with microcephaly caused by the Zika virus, during an evaluation at Fundação Altino Ventura in Recife, Brazil. A group of prominent donors announced Wednesday that they had raised almost $500 million for a new partnership to stop epidemics ...
In this photo provided by Harvard University, a pig's heart encased in a robotic sleeve designed to gently squeeze a diseased heart so it better pumps blood.
The rise of drug-resistant bacterial superbugs has been a concern of public health officials for years, and now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a worst-case scenario: a woman with a bacterial infection that was ...
