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The Central Intelligence Agency admitted Thursday that it spied on the computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee as lawmakers prepared their report on the CIA's controversial detention and "enhanced inte...

'I Will What I Want'

Japan provides Vietnam with 6 vessels to help boost maritime security capacity

The world's biggest tunnel-boring machine, nicknamed Bertha, is awaiting repairs, and getting it going again will be an engineering feat in itself.

The cease-fire, announced hours earlier by the U.S. and the U.N., took effect at 8:00 a.m. Friday. Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned there were “no guarantees” that the lull...

Expert: 'Mini tornado' caused accident that killed New York skydiver and injured instructor

At least 24 people were killed and more than 270 injured when the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second largest, was rocked by blasts that sent flames surging into the streets.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- A Port Huron woman who won a $66 million Mega Millions jackpot that was drawn in mid-June said Thursday that she didn’t learn for 10 days...

The scene in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat -- after a rocket attack that injured one person. Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv, a drill familiar to many Israelis -- looking for cover. Israel's military says that in t...

The US strategy of balkanising the Middle Eastern along the "arc of crisis" by dividing the people along ethnic and sectarian lines using their Islamic State (IS) death squads is finally revealed. It also reveals how thi...

A Sudanese Christian woman once sentenced to death in her native country because of her faith arrives in the U.S.

An American doctor who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Liberia has selflessly given the only dose of life saving serum to a colleague also infected with the deadly virus. Dr....

Tropical Storm Bertha forms in the Atlantic; storm warnings issued for Barbados, Dominica

Agency officials are enraged by strikes on its facilities and mounting civilian casualties in Gaza, while Israel accuses the U.N. of playing down Hamas's role in the conflict.

A longtime music director at Holy Family Catholic Church in Inverness said he was fired from his job this week after he announced that he was engaged to his male partner.

Nuclear accidents today threaten the very existence of life on the planet---and they do happen. Much of Europe was contaminated by the accident at Chernobyl, causing about 1-million deaths, and much of Japan is being con...

The Obama administration urged Qatar on Thursday to allow an American couple convicted of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted daughter to return to the United States.

A model who was arrested for offering up her nude body as a canvas for a Times Square art stunt is suing the NYPD and the city, citing illegal censorship....

In the 24 days since Israel's Operation Protective Edge began, there have been three humanitarian cease-fires, plus one expected to begin Friday; at least six attempted humanitarian cease-fires or extensions; an original...

Supporters from an advocacy group called Casa de Maryland protested outside the White House on Thursday (July 31) against the deportation of children. The protesters were demanding that U.S. President Barack Obama stop t...

Listen to Episode 61 of Slate's The Gist:

Kenneth Bae has been detained in North Korea for nearly two years.