WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will hold off on new sanctions against Russia as part of a deal struck Thursday that calls for Moscow to stand down outlaw militias and take other steps to restore calm to volatile eastern Ukraine.
The ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce jumped into two key Senate races this week -- another clear signal that the GOP establishment will try to stop tea party candidates from winning primaries as Republicans try to wrest control of the Senate...
HOMS, Syria -- The crackle of gunfire and the sound of shelling resounded in this central Syrian city Thursday as army troops pressed an offensive in the Old City following a breakdown in talks between the government and rebels.
Homs, long at the...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military judge in the USS Cole bombing case has ordered the CIA to give defense lawyers details -- names, dates and places -- of its secret overseas detention and interrogation of the man accused of planning ...
NEW YORK -- On a ranch in rural Oregon, a radical Muslim holding a dagger with a curved blade yanked back the head of a kneeling young man and brought the metal to his neck.
"He said he was going to show us how to properly slice someone's throat,...
MIAMI -- Cuban authorities should immediately free a journalist jailed for reporting on a case of alleged police abuse involving a man bitten by a police dog, the Paris-based Reporters Without Frontiers (RWF) said Thursday.
Juliet Michelena Diaz,...