Lazarevic was kidnapped from his hotel, along with another French citizen, three years ago, and has appeared in many videos by the group.
Over 200 people were arrested by the California Highway Patrol as demonstrators confronted police near Highway 24.
State officials say Christie violated his own pension law when he cut the required contributions to the retirement system.
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.
The resignation of Detroit's emergency manager signals that the city is emerging from bankruptcy.
If Iran completes work on its heavy water reactor, the country could produce enough plutonium to make several nuclear weapons a year.
Obama knows the next president could overturn his immigration orders, but he believes Americans won't let that happen.
Mississippi 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was burned to death Saturday night in a crime that has shocked her community.
The U.S. is making a new effort, some of it secret, to save Syrian rebels.
Only two politicians seen as contenders for the 2016 presidential election publicly addressed the CIA torture report released Tuesday.
The recently passed ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C., could be doomed by Congress via a provision in a forthcoming federal spending bill.
Ex-President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney were misled about the CIA's interrogation program, a Senate committee found.
Penguin Random House admits that "Barry," the name of the man Lena Dunham accuses of rape in her memoir, was a pseudonym.
CIA officials gave glowing accounts to investigative reporters on the effectiveness of its 'Detention and Interrogation Program.'
Along with sanctioned interrogation techniques, some interrogators played "Russian roulette," and threatened detainees with power drills.
Republican lawmakers cheered the Senate bill, but some say it's really meant to play to a Florida audience.
CIA offices were told to “think big” when asking headquarters for money.
Overall American opposition to torture has declined since 2004. It remains to be seen if the Senate's report changes that.
"I know better. I knew better. I am embarrassed, and I am sorry," Gruber said.
Concerned about retribution attacks on U.S. targets after the release of the CIA torture report, the administration tightens security.
The CIA torture report outlines instances where the agency sought to mislead the government about the effectiveness of such practices.
The militant group released a flood of "news reports" from its self-declared caliphate condemning U.S. torture.
The release of the Senate's long-awaited report on brutal CIA interrogation techniques is unlikely to lead to the prosecution or punishment of individuals involved in the program.
The Islamic State group is going after Internet users in its stronghold of Raqqa, Syria.
The document, released Tuesday, revealed the CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” were much more brutal than thought.
Members of the Jewish community in Brooklyn's Crown Heights remain rattled after a student was stabbed inside the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters early Tuesday morning.
Detainees were forced to stand on their broken legs, were beaten while naked and had their families threatened during CIA interrogations.
If the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are looking to Moscow for financial support, they may be disappointed.