In a major political upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican Viriginia primary to college professor David Brat, a tea party candidate. Brat will face Democrat Jack Trammel, a colleague at a suburban Richmond College, in November'...
1. Police in Oregon say a gunman fatally shot a student at a high school near Portland. Authorities said Tuesday, the suspect was also dead and the situation is now stabilized, but no word on the motive. 2. Gunmen in Pakistan attacked a training faci...
NATO says 5 service members were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Part of a monorail under contruction in Sao Paulo, Brazil ahead of the World Cup collasped, killing one man. Las Vegas authorities say the husband and wife who we...
1. Ten gunmen disguised as police guards and armed with machine guns and a rocket launcher attacked Pakistans busiest airport on Sunday during a siege that killed at least 18 people. The attack came as government-led peace talks with the local Taliba...
1. A senior US official says sergeant, Bowe Bergdahl, has told military officials that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape. 2. Vatican officials insist no political agenda is lurki...
1. The Obama administration has told senators they didn't notify Congress about the pending swap of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because the Taliban had threatened to kill him if the deal was made public before it happened. 2. Pr...
Videos provided to the Associated Press show a couple who disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2012 appealing to the U.S. government for help in freeing them from their Taliban captors. The American family of then-pregnant Caitlan Coleman received the...
1. For me, personally, I think it is just too soon in this process. I think there are a lot of emotions involved here. I think the family needs some time to heal, and a public event and celebration. For me, personally, knowing Bowe, knowing his famil...
Syrian president Bashar Assad is expected to easily win an election that's widely being denounced as a sham. Thousands of Syrians are lining up in areas controlled by the Syrian government to vote in Syria's first multi-candidate election in more tha...
1. Criticism is mounting over the White House with prisoner exchange with the Taliban for captured army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. Republicans are arguing the swap could harm National Security and encourage more abductions. Five Guantanamo detainees wer...
1. Republican lawmakers say Congress should be told the deal to swap five high-level Afghan detainees at Guantanamo for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. The White House says Congress wasn't told because they had to act quickly in order to save Bergdahl whose...
1. Police in Los Angeles say the man who rushed Brad Pitt on the red carpet Wednesday night is a Ukraine Journalist with a history of getting too close to celebrities. The suspect, 25-year-old, Vitalii Sediuk was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanour b...
1. California lawmakers are calling for tighter gun control following last weeks deadly Santa Barbara shooting. One proposal would create a gun violence restraining order aimed at preventing someone experiencing a mental health crisis from purchasing...
President Barack Obama said the United States is finishing the job it started in Afghanistan. The president says he's planning to keep fewer than 10,000 troops in the country after this year but then draw down those forces by the end of 2016. The Sup...
