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BEIRUT (AP) -- Islamic State militants re-entered the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday for the first time since they were expelled by Syrian and Russian forces nine months ago....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's presidential transition team on Saturday challenged the veracity of U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia was trying to tip the November election to the Republican. A top Senate Democrat demanded a full congressional investigation....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest developments on Donald Trump's transition to the presidency (all times local):...
Long before presidential recounts crossed her mind, trash dumping and mercury contamination pushed Jill Stein into politics....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hundreds more civilians fled what remained of the Syrian opposition's enclave in Aleppo on Saturday as rebels and government forces exchanged artillery and mortar fire across the northern city....
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Joe Piscopo's Frank Sinatra impression, made famous from his days on "Saturday Night Live," has gotten an update....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 114th Congress has limped to a close, two years of partisan acrimony punctuated by the occasional burst of bipartisan deal-making in the waning days of Barack Obama's presidency....
PELHAM, N.C. (AP) -- White supremacy is a label that's too hot to handle even for groups like the Ku Klux Klan....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's presidential transition team pushed back Saturday against reports that Russia was caught trying to tip the November election to the Republican and challenged the veracity of U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the campaign-season cyberattacks....
(Vatican Radio) A major study released on Wednesday suggests that children even as young as 12 years, working up to 13 hours a day, might be typical of Bangladesh’s poorest young people.Earning less than £60 a week under conditions that are hostile even for adults, has become inevitable for the country’s teenagers, after the family’s financial problems force them out of school into a full-time job. This is true of 15% of children between 6 and 14 years of age of the poorest neighborhoods of Dhaka. The figure rises to 50% among those under 14.The thousands of Bangladeshi children who live in the capital's slums are working illegally for an average of 64 hours a week, with many employed by the garment industry making clothing for top global brands, according to a report released by the Overseas Development Institute.The survey of 2,700 slum households, carried out by the Institute, among the largest conducted in the south Asian country, found two-thirds o...
