US Kills High Ranking ISIS Official

In a rare ground attack deep into Syria, U.S. Army commandos killed a man described as the Islamic State’s head of oil operations, captured his wife and rescued a woman whom American officials said was enslaved.
A team of Delta Force commandos slipped across the border from Iraq…

Jury Decides Death for Boston Bomber

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race’s finish line.

After deliberating for 15 hours, the federal jury chose death…

Tragedy on the Tracks. 7 Killed In Amtrak Crash

Rescue workers on Wednesday sifted through twisted metal and other debris from the wreck of an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others, while investigators reviewed data to determine the cause of an accident.

Authorities said they did not know why…

Chicago it is! Obama Library is Coming Home

President Obama will build his future presidential library and museum on the city’s South Side, the Barack Obama Foundation announced Tuesday.

“With a library and foundation on the South Side of Chicago, not only will we be able to encourage and effect change locally, but what we can also…

Another Earthquake Rocks Nepal

A fresh 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, killing more than two dozen people in the Himalayan country and neighboring states, as many buildings already weakened by a much bigger quake last month were brought down.

The earthquake was centered 68 kilometers (42 miles) west of the town…