The wife of an 85-year-old veteran being detained in North Korea implored authorities on Friday to let her husband return to his anxious family and end what she called a “dreadful misunderstanding.”
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The body of a popular Massachusetts teacher who police say was killed by one of her students was found in the woods, naked from the waist down and with her throat slit and a note that read, “I hate you all,” according to court documents released Friday.
Rules against making cellphone calls during airline flights are “outdated,” and it’s time to change them, federal regulators said Thursday, drawing immediate howls of protest from flight attendants, airline officials and others.
“A bad thing happened” early Aug. 28 the petite, blond-haired 13-year-old girl with a soft, tender voice told a Las Vegas judge Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average finished above 16,000 for the first time Thursday as the blue-chip index races toward its best performance in a decade.
Rio de Janeiro’s endless beaches and lush tropical forest will be a photographer’s dream during the 2016 Olympics. But zoom in on the likes of once-pristine Guanabara Bay, and the picture is of household trash and raw sewage.
After having seen the first two “Hunger Games” movies and four of the five “Twilights,” there’s no doubt which makes for the better young-adult film franchise.
A Boeing 747 jumbo jet mistakenly landed at a small Kansas airport not far from the Air Force base where it was supposed to land to deliver parts for the company’s famed new 787 Dreamliner.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched a move Thursday to overturn decades of Senate precedent and undermine Republicans’ ability to block final votes on presidential appointees. The Senate voted 52-48 to change filibuster rules.
He’s been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home — and his family says it’s because of he has been deemed too fat to travel. Now Frenchman Kevin Chenais’ long and fitful journey is coming to an end.
Honoring the legacy of John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the assassinated president’s gravesite and recognized a group of distinguished Americans with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award created by Kennedy.
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, has proposed installing a built-in anti-theft measure known as a “kill switch” that would render stolen or lost phones inoperable, but the nation’s biggest carriers have rejected the idea, according to San Francisco’s top prosecutor.
Hundreds of people, many of them homeless or at risk of living on the streets, lined up Tuesday morning against the wall at Cashman Center as they waited for access to crucial services.
A college professor who played a supersized video game on the side of a Philadelphia skyscraper now holds a Guinness world record for the feat.
MSNBC was not saying Tuesday whether disciplinary action is planned against show host Martin Bashir, who has apologized for “deeply offensive” comments he made about Sarah Palin.