President Barack Obama on Friday will nominate Sen. John Kerry as his next secretary of state, a senior administration official said, making the first move in a sweeping overhaul of
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week’s elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents
Heavy winds and rain showers are buffeting the New York City area, clogging roads and delaying flights at major airports. The Federal Aviation Administration says some flights arriving at La
Several thousand pre-World War II posters seized by the Nazis are coming to a New York City auction. The 4,000 posters are by such noted artists as Alphonse Mucha and
Now that House Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” for addressing the “fiscal cliff” has crashed and burned, the top U.S. Republican appears to have two remaining options – wash his
Senate Republicans are balking at the president’s $60 billion request for Sandy relief, and are offering their own plan at less than half the value. GOP lawmakers have proposed a
Heavy rains are soaking the tri-state area as winds whip lingering debris from Sandy and residents brace for possible power outages across the region. Airports were reporting delays early Friday
One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago was arrested after a dayslong manhunt, an FBI spokeswoman said early Friday.
President Barack Obama says he’ll press ahead with Congress in hopes of preventing across-the-board tax increases set to strike taxpayers Jan. 1 after House GOP leaders unexpectedly put off a
North Korea said on Friday it had detained an American tourist on charges of perpetrating a crime against the state and is putting him through criminal proceedings, indicating it is
Research In Motion said on Thursday it plans to change the way it charges for its BlackBerry services after reporting that its subscriber base shrank for the first time in
Hundreds of thousands of people who have been stopped or frisked by New York police – but never convicted of any crime – can sue the police department for keeping
Confronted with a revolt among the rank and file, House Republicans abruptly put off a vote Thursday night on legislation allowing tax rates to rise for households earning $1 million
The following is from an email sent by the White House on Thursday evening (EST), titled “Travel Warning; Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza: The security environment remains complex in
Israel’s U.N. envoy urged the Security Council on Thursday to condemn what he described as significant rearming by Hezbollah, saying the terrorist group now possessed an arsenal of tens of
The White House on Thursday came to the defense of former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel against critics who have attacked his record on Israel and Iran in a bid to
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not known for avoiding controversy. But as Washington reviews an independent inquiry that slammed Clinton’s State Department for failures related to the fatal
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a $633 billion defense bill for next year despite Pentagon complaints that it spares outdated but politically popular weapons at the expense of the
Facebook Inc unveiled a test on Thursday that charges users to send certain types of messages through the social network, the latest example of the company looking for new sources
Even as they buried more victims of the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history on Thursday, residents of Newtown, Connecticut, sought ways to pressure U.S. leaders to restrict access to
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