TEL AVIV - Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in retaliation for the assassination of its nuclear scientists, a top security official has warned.

Yoram Cohen, the head of...

Apart from typical running, throwing and strength training drills, the Super Bowl-bound New York Giants also reap the athletic benefits of season-long yoga sessions.

Gwen Lawrence, celebrity yoga...

Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher were seen paying a visit to Demi Moore this week as she recovered at her Los Angeles home following her collapse and hospitalization due to "exhaustion."

The...

French magazine 'Elle' has apologised for a 'racist' article posted on its website that suggested that black American elite, inspired by the Obamas, were finally embracing 'white' fashion, after it...

The latest job report, which pegs US unemployment at 8.3 percent may be a turning point for President Barack Obama ahead of the 2012 White House race.

The US added 243,000 new jobs in January, the...

Daniel Radcliffe is supporting the Giants and has bet for 5,000 dollars that New York will win the Super Bowl.

"I'm really excited. I am a Giants fan, absolutely. I was christened a Giants fan when...

Kim Kardashian has taken to her Twitter account to deny rumours of a budding romance with American footballer and model Kate Upton's boyfriend, Mark Sanchez.

The 31-year-old reality star, who has...

A strange outbreak of twitching disorder in upstate New York may be spreading through social media as a kind of subconscious mimicry, say experts.

Doctors treating the case of nearly 20 teenagers...

Notorious Internet hacking group Anonymous has intercepted and published a recording of a conference call between Scotland Yard in the UK and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The conversation...

To make America more attractive to highly-skilled foreign students and workers, the United States has announced a series of reforms, including changes in the F-1 and H-1B visa rules, that may benefit...

Asserting that ties with India and China were not a zero-sum game, the United States has said it was strengthening its relations with both as part of its Asia pivot.

"The United States is in the...

US President Barack Obama will host British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House during an official visit in March, the White House said.

The meeting scheduled for March 13-14 will also...

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has reportedly been "hanging out" with American football quarterback Mark Sanchez.

The 31-year-old, who was last year married to basketball star Kris Humphries for...

Israel's facilities in North America and around the world are on high alert, as they face an Iranian security threat, an internal document has said.

"We predict that the threat on our sites around...

SHOW LOW, Ariz. -; A plane crash in eastern Arizona has killed a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and severely injured the man's son and his wife. The single-engine plane...

Rhonda Johnstone wipes out while snowboarding with her friends dogs Sake and Lola as a snow storm hits the Denver metro area Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 in Lakewood, Colo. A powerful winter storm swept...

This undated photo provided by the Curry County Sheriff's Office shows missing mushroom pickers Daniel and Belinda Conne. Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael,...

CANONSBURG, Pa. -; An official says a fire at a candy factory in southwestern Pennsylvania destroyed nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate. The blaze broke out early Friday morning at a second-floor...

INDIANAPOLIS -; Indiana Democrats say they will try next week to have their losing candidate installed as the state's elections chief after a jury found Secretary of State Charlie White guilty...

2012 Taste of the NFL and Super Bowl XLVI Media Day with 2012 Miss America Laura Kaeppeler and Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers in Indianapolis on Thursday, Feb. 2,...

BERNARDSVILLE, N.J. – A northern New Jersey educator accused of secretly videotaping teenage boys in the shower at a Catholic high school for nearly three years has quit his administrative job...

Jim Poulin Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer jokingly makes a point while talking to Phoenix Vice Mayor Michael Johnson at the US Airways Center 20th anniversary celebration Feb....

A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only permanent Security Council members challenging the UN's right to...

SAN DIEGO -- It's been two years since a Fallbrook family of four went missing, and one of their relatives is still looking for clues in their...

By msbnc.com staff POCATELLO, Idaho -- Three-week-old twins found unconscious after sleeping in bed with their mother died of accidental suffocation, a coroner has ruled.Bannock County Coroner Kim...

U.S. Park Police remove evidence seized in Occupy DC demonstrator's tents as they enforce no camping laws at McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff...

A male victim fell into the San Francisco Bay early this morning, according to a San Francisco fire dispatcher. A call came in to fire crews about someone who fell into the water off Pier 28 along...

NOBLESVILLE, Ind (Reuters) - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft...

White House received a letter in 2011 that purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, asking the United States to deliver prisoners whose transfer is now central to American efforts to broker peace...

(AP) SHOW LOW, Ariz. - A plane crash in eastern Arizona has killed a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and severely injured the man's son and his wife. The single-engine plane...

A Catholic school in Minnesota has suspended a 9-year-old boy for performing a crotch-grabbing Michael Jackson dance move during a fundraiser. Mindy Boberg told the Winona Daily News...

An official says a fire at a candy factory in southwestern Pennsylvania destroyed nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate. The blaze broke out early Friday morning at a second-floor packaging area at...

A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday in Southern Oregon, six days after they disappeared from their campsite to go mushroom picking. Curry County Sheriff John Bishop...

A plane crash in eastern Arizona has killed a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and severely injured the man's son and his wife. The single-engine plane crashed moments after...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. A National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist in Golden,...

The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for...

MUNICH  — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday a crackdown by Egypt's military rulers on U.S. and local pro-democracy groups could jeopardize aid for the Arab...

Minister Says Pro-Life Campaign Is a 'Holy Spirit Movement'SAN FRANCISCO, JAN. 23, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Though the U.S. pro-life movement draws most attention to Washington, D.C., on the...

A supermajority of Americans supports significant restrictions on abortion, in contradiction to the Supreme Court decisions which require permissive laws nationwide, a new survey sponsored by the...

​Dan McGrath writes a column for The Chicago News Cooperative.


Remove the Heisman Trophy from the discussion and I don't know if Phil Emery knows Robert Griffin III from Robert...

For this group - some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history - "African-American" is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late...

SEATTLE -; A 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. A National Earthquake Information Center spokesman in Golden,...

FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, provided by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. The ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Orange County has been...

BRANDON, Miss. -; Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn't know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he...

HOPE MILLS, N.C. -; North Carolina deputies say they used a stun gun on a woman who blocked a McDonalds drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she broke in line. ...

MIAMI -; More than 200 passengers on two cruise ships headed to south Florida have been stricken with a gastrointestinal illness. Officials with Princess Cruise Lines say two of its ships were...

The star of the hit British series talks about the runaway success of 'Downton Abbey,' her upcoming album - and having Shirley MacLaine for a...

Police arrested George Huguely of Chevy Chase, Md. and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- In the nearly two years since a University of...