UNITED STATES

Six months after taking Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, the Islamic State group appears stymied in efforts to also take Baghdad.

Newspapers around the United States used harsh headlines to describe the brutal CIA torture report released Tuesday.

The Dow tumbled after OPEC slashed its forecast for 2015 production by 300,000 barrels per day to 28.9 million barrels.

Embassies in Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands and three other countries have issued warnings about possible anti-American attacks.

The iPod Classic may be gone from Apple's lineup, but it's fetching a pretty penny on the secondhand market.

California, Washington and Hawaii are the only states where more than three out of every 1,000 cars are now electric.

The wholesale club warehouse is one of the largest fuel retailers, and excluding fuel, its sales rose by 7 percent.

After years of denials, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski now admits his country harbored a CIA black site used for torture.

“Iran and people of the region will not forget such conspiracies," the Iranian leader said on Wednesday.

Demographic changes are helping drive the integration of America's Christian congregations.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pointed out what he said was hypocrisy in the U.S. pushing for human rights but inhumanely treating terror detainees.

The United Technologies Research Center, which Yu claimed he had worked for, has said that it is cooperating with authorities.

The weapon is expected to be used on ships, allowing China to enforce its maritime territorial claims.

Instead, when subjected to the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques, several detainees withheld or fabricated information about Bin Laden.

The announcement comes soon after Michael Bloomberg said he would reprise his role as full-time leader of the company in 2015.

Over 200 people were arrested by the California Highway Patrol as demonstrators confronted police near Highway 24.

Adam Everett Livvix, a 30-year-old Christian from Texas, had been living in Israel illegally since his permit expired in September 2013.

The "cromnibus" spending bill produced with bipartisan support includes money to fight ISIS and Ebola, and prohibits spending on abortion.

Lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill to avert a shutdown and fund the government till September. It must pass by Friday.

If Iran completes work on its heavy water reactor, the country could produce enough plutonium to make several nuclear weapons a year.

The Irish government will accept a motion to be proposed by the opposition Tuesday calling on parliament to recognize Palestine as a state, echoing similar recent symbolic decisions in other European Union countries.