Israeli archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique structure around 1,800 years old that abuts the Western Wall and may have been built during Roman Emperor Hadrian’s reign.
Speaking to a group of worker in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his proposed tax cut package “will be rocket fuel” for the U.S. economy.
North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.”
A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on. The boys’ mother, Lamora Williams, is charged with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn.
Between the raging hurricanes and the massive wildfires, 2017 has been quite a year for weather in the United States. And watching it all unfold is a new, next-generation, multimillion-dollar satellite.
The driver of a semitrailer packed with at least 39 immigrants, 10 of whom died, pleaded guilty Monday to making the deadly smuggling run. James Matthew Bradley Jr., 61, pleaded Monday in federal court in San Antonio, and faces up to life imprisonment.
President Donald Trump found a new political group to bake under his harsh spotlight on Monday — Democrats, whose real political talent, he said, is “obstruction.”
The U.S. military said Monday it killed dozens of Islamic State fighters in airstrikes on two training camps in Yemen.
A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
Tens of thousands of women are recounting being sexually harassed or assaulted by flooding social media with the hashtag “metoo” in the wake of claims against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
Vulnerable GOP incumbent added about $1.1 million to his coffers during the third quarter in advance of primary and general election challenges next year.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he has signed a law requiring pet stores to work with animal shelters or rescue operations if they want to sell dogs, cats or rabbits. It still allows private breeders to sell animals directly.
The death toll from a truck bombing in Somalia’s capital has risen above 300, the director of an ambulance service said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa nation reeled from the deadliest single attack it’s ever experienced.
An oil rig explosion on a lake north of New Orleans, apparently caused when cleaning chemicals ignited, injured seven people and left authorities searching for another who was missing.
