Acting swiftly on President Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate Saturday. The strike came amid what

Gulf Coast residents in Hurricane Ida’s path were urged early Saturday to get out as soon as they can, as the massive storm steams toward New Orleans. “Ida expected to rapidly intensify as it moves over the Southeastern and Central Gulf of Mexico through tonight,”

WASHINGTON -- Thousands converged on the nation's capital Saturday to demand the protection of voting rights, walking in the footsteps of the 250,000 people who marched in the historic March on Washington 58 years before. As part of March On for Voting Rights,

A British Royal Airforce Voyager aircraft a carrying members of the British armed forces 16 Air Assault Brigade arrives at Brize Norton, Britain August 28, 2021. Alastair Grant/ Pool via REUTERS A British Royal Airforce Voyager aircraft a carrying members

President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in White House talks on Friday that he was putting "diplomacy first" to try to rein in Iran's nuclear program but that if negotiations fail he would be prepared to turn to other unspecified options. After

President Biden’s approval rating is now under water, RealClearPolitics’ Friday average showed. RCP’s polling data average showed the 78-year-0ld president’s approval rating in the negatives, with 48.4 percent disapproving and 47.4 approving, the week the

China’s defense ministry has protested the passage of a U.S. Navy warship and Coast Guard cutter through the waters between China and Taiwan, a self-governing island claimed by China BEIJING -- China's defense ministry protested Saturday the passage of a U.S.

Friday’s recommendation by a California panel that Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, be paroled after decades in prison has resulted in a divide among the late U.S. senator’s nine surviving children. Six of the children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy,

(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A mother in Illinois says a judge has stripped her parental rights because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new report. Earlier this month, Cook County judge James Shapiro ruled that Rebecca Firlit can’t see her

(CNN) Less than two months ahead of the regular season tip-off, the NBA says it's requiring referees and other personnel who work with players during the 2021-22 season to be fully vaccinated. "All referees must be fully vaccinated unless they have a religious

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that one of the lessons from the situation in Afghanistan is that Americans should have perspective about their own country and despite the tenant of woke ideology “that America is rotten to the

Last month, my colleague Jerry Wilson shared a story about rock legend Eric Clapton announcing he would no longer play venues that require concert goers to show proof of vaccination against COVID. This came as Clapton’s native U.K. imposed vaccine mandates

Texas Republicans this week advanced a controversial voting bill, dwindling Democrats’ chances of sinking it following a staged weeks-long walkout from the Legislature. The bill passed the Texas House on a 79-37 mostly party-line vote, after the Democrats

Kanye West stirred up controversy at his "Donda" listening event on Thursday night when he brought out Marilyn Manson and DaBaby. Manson is currently being accused of rape and sexual, physical, and emotional assault by multiple women in various lawsuits while

The federal government has opened a mass COVID-19 vaccination site for the thousands of Afghan evacuees streaming daily into Dulles International Airport in Virginia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency set up the site at the Dulles Expo Center, and the

A police officer in Austin, Texas, who was charged with murdering a man in April 2020 has been charged with murdering another man about nine months earlier, prosecutors said on Friday. The latest indictments charge the officer, Christopher Taylor, 29, and

Iraq's President Barham Salih and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a news conference ahead of the Baghdad summit at the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq August 28, 2021. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani Iraq's President Barham Salih and France's President Emmanuel

The Taliban and the Haqqani Network are "separate entities," the State Department insisted on Friday, arguing the United States providing information with the former did not mean it was doing the same with the latter. Despite State's denials there are strong

Elizabeth Holmes Plans To Accuse Ex-Boyfriend Of Emotional And Sexual Abuse At Trial Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Jeff Chiu/AP Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, plans to defend herself at her federal fraud

Fans, players and coaches ran for cover, and police from multiple Delaware County communities descended upon the school within minutes. The Delaware County Daily Times said its postgame interviews captured audio of seven shots in rapid succession. Authorities

Recovered bodies are seen after a boat packed with passengers slammed into a vessel transporting sand, in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh August 27, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer Recovered bodies are seen after a boat packed with passengers slammed into a vessel transporting

One answer -- one very loooooong answer -- stood out to me. It came after Hewitt asked Trump to describe his conversation with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban co-founder and deputy leader, during his 2020 negotiations with the group to remove American

(CNN) A Washington state man was found guilty Friday in the death of a transgender teenager, Nikki Kuhnhausen. David Bogdanov, 27, was convicted of second-degree murder and malicious harassment, according to Clark County Superior Court records. Malicious

A Florida judge on Friday ruled against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on school mask mandates, claiming the Republican governor had overstepped his authority. Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper called DeSantis’ executive order unconstitutional and said the governor