WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther ...
WASHINGTON -- A senior White House aide said Sunday that President Barack Obama learned only from news reports that an Internal Revenue Service office had singled out dozens of conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while Republicans vowed...
BALTIMORE -- Benjamin Lipsitz, a lawyer who defended the man who tried to kill George Wallace, died May 10. He was 94.
"He was so fundamentally devoted to justice. He was Atticus Finch all over again," said retired Baltimore County Circuit Judge ...
BEIRUT -- Syrian government forces launched a long-planned offensive early Sunday on the strategic city of Qusair and neighboring rebel-controlled villages near the Lebanese border, with heavy shelling that began shortly after midnight, according ...
One ticket sold in Florida has won the Powerball jackpot, with a final annuity value of $590.5 million, short of the advertised estimate of $600 million.
The jackpot did not break the all-time record of $656 million set in March 2012 by Mega ...
JERUSALEM -- Fears of an escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday with renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation.
After decades of relative calm, some Israeli officials say ...