Analysis Shows Flight 370 ‘Ended’ In Indian Ocean, Malaysia Says
This post was updated at 12:30 p.m. ET. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday that new analysis of the flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that it “ended in the southern...
View ArticleU.S. Unemployment Drops To 6.3 Percent, Lowest In 5 Years
The nation’s economy added a robust 288,000 jobs in April, far more than forecast, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, its lowest level in five years, according to the Labor Department. The...
View ArticleObama: U.S. Forces Won’t Return To Combat In Iraq Crisis
President Obama says the U.S. will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help it cope with the Sunni extremist group ISIS, which has won several key battles in recent days. Obama said Americans...
View ArticleClosely Held Companies Can Refuse To Cover Contraception, Supreme Court Says
The Supreme Court has ruled that Hobby Lobby and other family owned and closely held for-profit companies can opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s provisions for no-cost prescription contraception in...
View ArticleGOP Takes Control Of Senate With Wins in N.C., Iowa, Ark., Colo.
This story was updated at 1:02 a.m. ET Republicans have picked up the seats they needed to retake control of the Senate and then some, with major victories in North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado and...
View ArticleObama Unveils ‘New Approach’ On Cuba As Former Foes Chart New Course
Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET President Obama announced today the most significant change in U.S. policy toward Cuba in more than 50 years, paving the way for the normalization of relations and the opening...
View ArticleMore Than 2 Dozen Arrested In France, Belgium Anti-Terror Raids
Overnight, police in France, Belgium and Germany arrested more than two dozen people suspected of having ties to terrorism. In Paris, NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports that police moved in at dawn and...
View ArticleObama In State Of The Union: ‘Turn The Page’ To Brighter Chapter
In the first minute of his hourlong State of the Union address, President Barack Obama summed up his theme in single sentence: “Tonight, we turn the page.” The president then detailed a page of history...
View ArticleObama: War Powers Resolution Does Not Signal New Ground War For U.S.
Flanked by his vice president and the secretaries of state and defense, President Obama said he was asking Congress for authorization to launch a war against the so-called Islamic State. Obama made...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Bombing Jury Finds Tsarnaev Guilty On All Counts
A jury in Boston has found 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all counts related to the 2013 bombings of the Boston Marathon. The twin bombings, carried out with his older brother, Tamerlan,...
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