Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a founding member of the Islamic State, oversaw the group's external terrorist operations. WASHINGTON - The senior Islamic State strategist Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was killed in northern Syria, the group announced on ...
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won the Republican nomination for Senate on Tuesday night, a result that enhances Republicans chances of retaining that seat and the Senate majority.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
After a bizarre, hours-long standoff, L.A. police officers took Chris Brown into custody late Tuesday afternoon and said the singer would be arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Donald Trump is considering jetting to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before he delivers a high-stakes speech in Arizona to clarify his views on immigration policy, according to people in ...
BRASILIA - As the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff ground into its fifth day Tuesday, exhausted lawmakers listened as a prosecutor described the process as a “constitutional remedy” for Brazil's political crisis.
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea says North Korea has executed a top education official and banished two other officials to rural areas for re-education.
(CNN) A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.
WASHINGTON - The State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends ...
WASHINGTON - When Bill Clinton told the staff of his global charity he would have to step down if Hillary Clinton won the White House, he was vividly clear about how that felt: Worse than a root canal, he said.
The Chicago Police Board will decide whether to fire Officer Jason Van Dyke, shown at an Aug. 4 court hearing, along with three other officers and a sergeant for allegedly lying about the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the embattled former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, beat back a primary challenge from an upstart political novice backed by Bernie Sanders and funded by his supporters.
Authorities in Florida on Tuesday released a handful of 911 calls about the shooting inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, making public for the first time recordings of what police were told about the attack while it was happening.
The war of words between David Jolly and Charlie Crist has already started, with Jolly accusing his Democratic opponent of lying about his support for Donald Trump.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway suggested Sunday that her boss was backing down from his inflammatory approach on immigration, but wouldn't commit to what the moguls' actual new plan would be.
Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway laced into David Plouffe on Tuesday, days after the former campaign adviser to Barack Obama called the GOP nominee a "psychopath.
Where was everybody? Turnout in Tuesday's primary came in around 32 percent, way lower than the more than 50 percent predicted by Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho.
Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end of media ownership for the historic North Michigan Avenue building and the beginning of a new chapter, likely as part of a mixed-use ...
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department will reopen some offices Wednesday that were closed after an unspecified email threat. USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said offices in Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina and Kearneysville, West Virginia, will ...
Google parent company Alphabet is moving some developers from its Nest subsidiary over to Google as the latter ramps up its efforts in the smart home, The Verge has learned.
This year, Apple AAPL -0.77% is reportedly going to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack in favor of a thin design for the iPhone 7. Headphones that ship with the iPhone 7 are expected to use the Lightning port instead of the 3.5mm jack.
Google is moving onto Uber Technologies Inc.'s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters inexpensively join carpools, said a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market.
Intel's Kaby Lake, the company's 7th-generation Core microprocessor, was never meant to be. Broadwell, then Skylake: Intel's tick-tock model was supposed to move on from there to the 10-nm Cannon Lake microprocessor next on Intel's roadmap.
After 22 seasons in the bag, Dancing With the Stars is a tried and true platform for niche stars to pave their way to a new act. Having faced criticism time and time again for casting Hollywood unknowns rather than A-listers dominating the industry ...
In a sneak peek at Tuesday's episode of Bachelor in Paradise, Jared Haibon informs Ashley Iaconetti that Caila Quinn - the girl he's been involved with this season, much to Iaconetti's despair - has packed her bags and left the show.
The Minnesota Vikings were weeks away from pulling off one of the most difficult feats in modern sports. They built a beautiful new stadium and were set to christen it as a buzzy, legitimate Super Bowl contender.
At a time when the popular narrative regarding 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick starts with the notion that he has regressed a as a player and ends with the question of whether he'll ever get another chance with another NFL team after refusing to ...
Tim Tebow says he'd rather pursue baseball with all his effort, even if that means potentially failing, instead of not trying and always wondering if he could make it.
A new species of pterosaur named for its "ancient brain" has been found in Patagonia. The flying reptile lived in the early Jurassic period, between about 199.6 million years ago and 175.6 million years ago.
(CNN) Scientists have just reconstructed the genome of an ancient plague, which may shed new light on how certain diseases can either mysteriously disappear or continue to evolve and spread.
For years, Tasmanian devils have been ravaged by gnarly facial tumors, cutting their numbers and pushing them toward extinction - but a new study suggests they may pull through after all.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is almost out of money to fight the Zika virus, the agency's director said Tuesday - just hours before Florida announced three fresh homegrown cases of the infection.
The Ebola virus can linger for a year or even longer in the semen of some men, researchers reported Tuesday. That means that Ebola survivors could be an important source for re-igniting outbreaks of the deadly virus, which killed more than 11,000 ...
Women seeking medical abortions in Ohio experienced a higher rate of complications after the state implemented a law that put new restrictions on doctors who performed the procedure, according to a study published Tuesday.
Florida health officials on Tuesday said they were investigating three new Zika virus cases likely stemming from local mosquito bites in Miami-Dade County, including two cases outside of the known areas of active transmission.