MALE OR FEMALE? NYC Health Dept. asks gender of new moms

Published February 01, 2015 It may seem like a trick question, but New York City has started asking 'the woman giving birth' if they...

Online video purportedly shows ISIS beheading of Japanese journalist

Published January 31, 2015 DEVELOPING : An online video purports to show Islamic State group militants beheading Japanese journalist Kenji ...

Ukraine: Russia sponsors terrorism

Published January 31, 2015 Ukraine wants the United Nations to brand Russia a terrorism sponsor amid bloody clashes between pro-Russian se...

100,000 PERCENT PROFIT $5,000 painting fetches $5.2M in just over a year

Published January 31, 2015 “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows,” had been sold when experts thought it was painted by fans of artist John ...

Report: Joint operation helped kill senior Hezbollah official

Published January 31, 2015 A joint operation with CIA and Mossad agents reportedly helped trigger a car bomb that killed a senior Hezbollah ...

PROTECTING TEACHERS Educators could use deadly force in new TX bill

Published January 31, 2015 A proposed bill would allow teachers in Texas to use deadly force against students and be safe from any kind of p...

FLOTUS DEFENDS FILM First lady backs 'American Sniper' at veterans event

First lady Michelle Obama urged Hollywood to give a more accurate portrayal of veterans and defended the Oscar-nominated "American Sn...

BOOST TO BUSH? Romney's exit from 2016 race resets GOP field

Mitt Romney’s announcement Friday that he will not run for president a third time has reset the budding 2016 field – with political strate...

RELEASED TO DO WHAT? Senator: 1,000 'criminal aliens' broke law again

Published January 31, 2015 The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday that 1,000 of the more than 36,000 "criminal al...

RELEASED TO DO WHAT? Senator: 1,000 'criminal aliens' broke law again

Published January 30, 2015 The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday that 1,000 of the more than 36,000 "criminal al...

BOOST TO BUSH? Romney exit from '16 race resets GOP field

Mitt Romney’s announcement Friday that he will not run for president a third time has reset the budding 2016 field – with political strate...

OPINION: 'Deflategate' aside, NFL gives us plenty to dislike

By John Halpin Published January 30, 2015 If fans look hard enough, they can find reasons to root against Patriots and head coach Bill Beli...

INJECTED WITH VENOM Woman paralyzed after botched Botox job

Published January 30, 2015 Injecting a toxin to reduce skin wrinkles isn’t unusual— after all, Botox derives from a toxin. But what one Rom...

ENGAGEMENT HORROR Woman in fatal fall off cliff moments after proposal

Published January 30, 2015 A vacationing woman accepted her boyfriend’s romantic marriage proposal in a picture-perfect cliffside setting in...

STILL SITTING Body of 19th-century monk found in lotus position

By Rossella Lorenzi Published January 30, 2015 The monk's body was discovered in the Songinokhairkhan province of Mongolia (Courtesy Mo...

Taliban claims responsibility for shooting at Afghanistan airport - VIDEO: 3 US contractors killed in Afghanistan attack, official says - Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula by militants with possible ISIS ties leave at least 26 dead - Mystery surrounds death of US defense contract worker at Saudi hotel

Published January 29, 2015 The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack at North Kabul International Airport that left three American ...

HOG WILD Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in NC

Published January 30, 2015 Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan Florence, bagged this enormous wild boar in North Carolina earlier this mont...

Rod McKuen, poet and performer, dies at 81 - 'The Thorn Birds' author dies at 77

Published January 29, 2015 Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose music and verse recordings won him an Oscar nominat...

BACK TO THE FIGHT? Official: Ex-Gitmo prisoner reaching out to Taliban

Published January 29, 2015 One of the five Taliban fighters traded last year for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is trying to make contact with the Talib...

HOG WILD Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in NC

Published January 29, 2015 Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan Florence, bagged this enormous wild boar in North Carolina earlier this mont...

'A—HOLE BROWN' Comcast sorry for name change on customer's bill

Published January 29, 2015 Comcast, the mammoth U.S. cable company, was reportedly forced to issue an apology Wednesday after someone at the...

IRAN TARGETS BIBI KIDS Calls for assassination of PM Netanyahu's children

Published January 29, 2015 Washington Free Beacon Iran is encouraging its terror allies to pursue the assassination of Israeli Prime Ministe...

Romney slams Clinton over jobs, Russia in possible preview of 2016

Mitt Romney used a speech at Mississippi State University on Wednesday to strike at Hillary Clinton's foreign policy and economic cred...

HANDS OFF OUR WATER Colo. moves to keep control over its H2O supply

Colorado is moving to keep tighter control over its own water supply, rankling drought-stricken western states like California. In the pro...

BREAKING NEWS ISIS purportedly extends deadline for prisoner swap

The Islamic State group released a message purportedly from Japanese hostage Kenji Goto on Thursday, extending the deadline for Jordan...

HANDS OFF OUR WATER Colo. moves to keep control over its H2O supply

Colorado is moving to keep tighter control over its own water supply, rankling drought-stricken western states like California. In the pro...

Supreme Court halts 3 upcoming executions in Okla.

Published January 28, 2015 The Supreme Court has ordered Oklahoma to postpone lethal injections executions using a controversial sedative un...

TREASURE CHEAT? Feds nab fugitive accused of looting 'Ship of Gold'

Published January 28, 2015 The 280-foot SS Central America, which has been dubbed the “Ship of Gold," sank during a hurricane off the N...

SUPER SATURN? Light exposes monster ring system around exoplanet

By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Published January 28, 2015 Newser In 2012, scientists discovered a giant exoplanet (one that orbits a star oth...

BREAKING NEWS: Jordan agrees to swap terrorist for pilot held by ISIS

Jordan has agreed to demands from ISIS that it release a female jihadist held since 2006, in a move that could free a Jordanian pilot capt...

UNDER SCRUTINY Obama's AG pick faces grilling on immigration, IRS

FILE: Dec. 2, 2014: Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Senate hearings begin Wednesday on whether t...