MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least 15 people died when an al-Qaida-linked militia attacked a U.N. compound here Wednesday, government officials said.
The dead included the attackers and four foreigners, including two South African deminers who worked...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Vince Flynn, the New York Times best-selling author of 14 thrillers and mysteries, has died of prostate cancer. He was 47.
Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minn., and graduated from St. Thomas Military Academy High School and the ...
BERLIN -- President Barack Obama tried to reassure skeptical Europeans about sweeping U.S. digital surveillance programs expanded under his watch, arguing that the programs are circumscribed, overseen by a court and effective.
"What I can say to ...
WASHINGTON -- Supporters and opponents of capital punishment agree: The current death penalty is expensive, inefficient and arbitrary. Some state legislatures have reacted to those faults by abolishing the death penalty, while others are trying to...
NEW YORK -- Danny Brucker, an oval-shaped man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and a harried look, stared at the students circling him.
"If you thought you were going to get a tour of Grand Central Station, you were wrong!" he screeched in a ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Mohammad Aziz Ayob adjusts his Boy Scout scarf, leans over and settles a sapling into the dry Kabul soil as two NATO helicopters pass overhead, the clack-clack of their blades echoing off the neighboring mountains.
Bobbing ...