AMMAN, Jordan -- U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday downplayed recent battlefield advances by Syria's military, saying they do not signal that the government of President Bashar Assad is gaining the upper hand against rebel forces ...
WASHINGTON -- The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-...
CHICAGO -- An attorney for Jacqueline Goldberg, the grandmother who said "someone had to stand up to" Donald Trump, on Wednesday put a number to the damages she is seeking from a federal jury: $6 million.
"He scammed her, he humiliated her," ...
CAIRO -- Seven soldiers kidnapped last week by suspected Islamist militants in the restive Sinai were freed after a six-hour negotiation between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, the Egyptian government announcement Wednesday.
The soldiers, who...
WASHINGTON -- Some Federal Reserve officials said they were willing to start ratcheting back the central bank's stimulus program as early as June if the economic recovery strengthened further, according to minutes from their policy meeting three ...
CHICAGO -- After hearing from aldermen, angry parents and community members in a meeting interrupted several times by protesters, the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday approved a plan to close 49 elementary schools and one high school program. ...