Cuba has temporarily detained about 140 political prisoners in January since Washington announced it was seeking to restore diplomatic relations with Havana, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
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A Georgia man was arrested on Monday in Mississippi and charged with the murder of his wife and four other people whose bodies were found in a house on Saturday night, police said.
An Egyptian court triggered an international uproar Monday, confirming a death sentence for 183 defendants.
The daughter of the boss of Korean Air Lines, on trial in what has popularly become known as the “nut rage” case, treated flight crew like “feudal slaves,” a chief steward said in court on Monday.
The owner of a small drone that crashed at the White House says his friend, the embarrassed operator who experienced the snafu, wants to apologize to President Barack Obama and the first family.
President Barack Obama is urging parents to get their children vaccinated in the face of a measles outbreak that has infected more than 100 people in the United States.
A winter storm dumping snow and disrupting travel in the central United States is headed toward the Northeast.
Georgia police were searching for a 26-year-old man on Sunday in the killings of five people whose bodies were discovered in a house the night before.
Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget will seek new taxes on trillions of dollars in profits accumulated overseas by U.S. companies, and a new approach to taxing foreign profits in the future, but Republicans were skeptical of the plan on Sunday.
He ventured to Syria to tell the stories of lives torn apart by war.
Kenji Goto had every reason to stay home in Japan. A successful career. An adoring mother. A loving wife. A pair of young daughters, one of them just 3-weeks old. Yet, in his mind, he had to go into war-torn Syria.
Officers detained two people, describing one of them as a person of interest in the homicide case.
Co-piloted by an American and a Russian, the balloon touched down safely in the waters off Mexico on Saturday, completing a week-long trans-Pacific flight that unofficially broke two world records, a spokeswoman said.
The auto industry’s airbag troubles deepened on Saturday, as federal regulators said companies need to fix defects that could cause airbags to deploy when they are not supposed to.
The sixth-grader’s death as he returned home with a family friend aroused the kind of anger that has long helped Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to recruit fighters.
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