SHAQOULI, Iraq - To defend a few miles of unremarkable road in northern Iraq, flanked by farmland, the occasional factory and flyspeck hamlets and villages, the Islamic State militants seemed to spare no effort.
San Francisco police say four students were injured and one is in critical condition after shots were fired in the parking lot of a school around the time students were being dismissed.
Donald J. Trump, speaking Tuesday at a campaign event in Colorado Springs, said that if he was elected president he would call for congressional term limits.
On Oct. 12, former People writer Natasha Stoynoff wrote a powerful essay accusing Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in 2005 during an interview at his Mar-a-Lago vacation home.
(CNN) Iranian-Americans Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak have been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $4.8 million, according to Iran's official news channel IRINN.
“I believe you are destined for great things.” That's shifty-seeming businessman Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) giving his sales-pitch to Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) in the latest trailer for the forthcoming action film Assassin's Creed, which is ...
BEIRUT - Russian and Syrian warplanes halted their bombardment of rebel-held districts in Aleppo on Tuesday, in what Russia called a gesture of good will ahead of an eight-hour unilateral “humanitarian pause” it has promised for Thursday.
FILE - A general view of Jerusalem's old city shows the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, Oct. 25, 2015.
Police shot and killed an emotionally disturbed woman who brandished scissors, then a wooden bat, at officers in a Bronx apartment building Tuesday night.
(CNN) The signs tell divers the area is dangerous. Even experienced ones have died there. Ten people, including two who were found Monday, have had fatal incidents inside the Eagle's Nest cave dive area in Western Florida since 1981.
The report found that 16 states allow law enforcement officials to compare the faces of suspects to photos on driver's licenses and other IDs without a warrant.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Donald Trump's repeated attacks on what he's calling a “rigged” election have emboldened some of his supporters to ratchet up their own rhetoric, while simultaneously offending and angering elections officials across the ...
Internal campaign emails published on Wikileaks show that Hillary Clinton was being advised to consider a surprisingly broad array of vice presidential candidates.
WASHINGTON - Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates made the list. So did Apple chief executive Tim Cook. They were among nearly 40 elected officials, military leaders and corporate CEOs that Hillary Clinton's campaign considered for vice president ...
Nearly one in four millennials would prefer to see Earth destroyed by a giant meteor than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House, a new opinion poll has found.
SAN FRANCISCO - If Verizon Communications really wants to renegotiate its $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo's internet operations, it's probably going to have a fight on its hands.
Intel Corp. INTC 1.23 % reported an 8.7% rise in its third-quarter earnings, as a lengthy slide in the personal computer market reversed and cloud-computing companies stocked up on servers.
I, like, many Twitter users, watched with interest as the social network's shares fell off a cliff last week when Salesforce - believed to be Twitter's most enthusiastic suitor in its latest round of bids - said the social site was “not the right fit ...
The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing that airlines refund fees on bags that arrive very late, own up to more mistakes and follow other new rules to promote competition between carriers.
Google's Pixel phones are pretty amazing. From Google Assistant, to an outstanding camera, Google has done a lot of things right with its newest flagship phone.
As is often the case with Apple events, we already know a good portion of what the company has up its sleeve. Read on for a roundup of what to expect… MacBook Air.
Researchers at Microsoft have published details of new speech recognition technology that they say transcribes conversational speech as well as a human does.
One week after it unveils new hardware, Microsoft will shift focus to software and its Office suite. The company just sent out invites for a media event on November 2nd in Manhattan, where CEO Satya Nadella, Office CVP Kirk Koenigsbauer, and "special ...
The announcement of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2017 gives us another chance to evaluate the relative merits of these acts - but also the state of the institution itself.
American Crime Story isn't going anywhere—E! News has confirmed the FX drama has been renewed for a third season and is returning to its murder roots and taking on the Gianni Versace murder.
CNN on Monday aired Melania Trump's first interview since The Washington Post published a 2005 recording in which Donald Trump brags about being able to "do anything" to women and get away with it because he is famous.
Dave Roberts says circumstances will determine if Clayton Kershaw starts in Game 5 of the NLCS for the Dodgers. (1:17). Facebook · Twitter; Pinterest · Email; comment.
Two years ago, the UFC promoted former soccer executive Garry Cook from head of operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, to chief global brand officer and head of international business development in Las Vegas.
A drawing of a steppe bison (Bison priscus) that was made with black charcoal that dates from the Aurignacian period, located at the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave in Ardèche, France.
Roche's new immuno-oncology drug Tecentriq is ready for its close-up in lung cancer. The PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor nabbed FDA approval for patients who've failed on a previous treatment, putting it in head-to-head competition with Merck & Co.
How can elementary schools save nearly $50 per student? By bringing in dental professionals to put sealants on their molars, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Our competitive nature may be the thing that pushes us to achieve things never before accomplished and to test the limits of human potential, but that nature can also easily backfire - sometimes with dangerous or deadly consequences.
