Israel rejected John Kerry's newest cease-fire proposal, but agreed to a 12-hour humanitarian truce.
The remains of an additional 74 bodies, victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, were returned to the Netherlands Friday.
Russia's Navy is rehearsing for its annual Navy Day in Crimea, sans its former partner Ukraine.
With Denver's crime rate dropping, Chris Christie criticizes legal weed. Rand Paul, his probable 2016 GOP rival, promotes pot-policy reform.
In a landslide vote on Friday, the House said Obama can't send troops to Iraq in a "sustained combat role" without the approval of Congress.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon disclosed the possibility hours after Israel rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s cease-fire proposal.
Iran has been a strong supporter of Hamas and does not recognize the state of Israel.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is attempting to woo economic leaders in the region, fresh on the heels of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
John Oliver's jokes on a recent episode of his HBO show earned the attention of Thailand's military.
Dan Pfeiffer, one of Obama's longest-serving advisers, told reporters that the executive actions Obama will approve at the end of the summer aimed at tackling illegal immigration will likely generate ire from Republicans who have blocked comprehensive immigration legislation.
The animal-rights group on Friday defended its plan to pay water bills for 10 Detroit families who agree to go vegan.
McDonald's 59-year relationship with meat supplier OSI Group will likely continue despite disturbing safety allegations.
Russia is arming pro-Russia rebels with tanks, armored vehicles and other high-powered weapons, according to U.S. officials.
HBO confirmed in a statement to Talking Points Memo that Sarah Palin was approached to appear in Season 7 of "True Blood."
Evidence of looting at the crash site of the airliner shot down by a missile is causing opprobrium at local people in eastern Ukraine.
The pontiff will make his first visit to the U.S. in September 2015 for the church's World Meeting of Families.
Norfolk Southern's lawsuit is believed to be the first time a rail company has gone to court to keep information about its routes confidential.
Hamas tweeted firing rockets at Ben-Gurion about 25 minutes before AC Flight 84 landed.
Separatist leader Igor Strelkov, a main suspect in the downing of MH17, was allegedly involved in the 1992 Serbian ethnic cleansing of Muslims.
The dolls, placed on porches in San Clemente, creeped out homeowners because they resembled girls in the homes.
Yoo's apprehension came three days after his father's dead body was discovered. An autopsy was inconclusive.
New photos have emerged from the MH17 crash site that show an empty field of wreckage — deserted by monitors and pro-Russia separatists.
A 34-year-old woman, one of 10 survivors in the Taiwan plane crash, called her father after she managed to crawl out of the mangled aircraft.
A new cease-fire proposal backed by John Kerry, calling for a seven-day humanitarian truce in Gaza, is being deliberated upon by Israel.
French officials ruled out an attack by militants in the airplane crash, which killed 116 people on Thursday.
Diplomats from the 160 WTO member countries were supposed to rubber stamp a deal on "trade facilitation."
Two other high-ranking officials from Venezuela too have been arrested and face drug trafficking charges in the U.S.
Wood was convicted of fatally shooting two people at an auto repair shop in Tucson in 1989.
Of the 298 people killed in the Flight MH17 crash last Thursday, almost two-thirds were Dutch nationals.
The plane crashed in a remote region of Mali, near the Burkina Faso border, known for sporadic outbreaks of separatist violence.