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NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump is targeting a visa program cherished by tech companies for bringing in programmers and other specialized workers from other countries....
VARNER, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas officials vowed to carry out a double execution later this week after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a setback to the state's plan to resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly 12 years by refusing to lift an order sparing an inmate just minutes before his death warrant expired....
The CEO of United Airlines says no one will be fired over the dragging of a man off a plane - including himself....
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Republicans are pushing to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district where Democrats stoked by opposition to President Donald Trump have rallied behind a candidate who has raised a shocking amount of money for a special election....
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- President Donald Trump hopes to revive the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, signing an order Tuesday in politically important Wisconsin to tighten rules on technology companies bringing in highly skilled foreign workers....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Almost four decades after first-grader Etan Patz set out for school and ended up at the heart of one of America's most influential missing-child cases, a former store clerk convicted of killing him was sentenced on Tuesday to at least 25 years in prison....
TOKYO (AP) -- From two continents, top Trump administration officials warned Tuesday that North Korea's latest failed missile launch was a reckless act of provocation and assured allies in Asia that the United States was ready to work to achieve a peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula....
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- The man who randomly gunned down a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook killed himself Tuesday during a police chase in Pennsylvania that began when a McDonald's employee recognized him at a drive-thru....
Two days ahead of the vote to decide the governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, that has seen a bitterly divisive campaign split along political, religious and ethnic lines, leading religious organizations of the world's most populous Muslim nation have appealed to their respective communities for a peaceful democratic process and good sense. Leaders of seven organizations and Christian confessions held a joint press conference on Monday in Jakarta at the headquarters of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia’s largest moderate Islamic organization. The organizations are the NU executive council, the Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI), the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI), the Nichiren Shoshu Indonesia (NSI), the Indonesian Parisada Hindu Council (PHDI), the Islamic Organisation Friendship Body (LPOI) and the Confucian Supreme Council of Indonesia (Matakin). Reiterating their support for the country’s pluralismThe representatives of ...
The Pakistani bishops' National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), strongly condemned the killing of a student of Abdul Wali Khan University in the city of Mardan and demanded that the government take stern action against the perpetrators.Mashal Khan, a journalism student was dragged from his hostel room, beaten, stripped, thrown off the second floor and shot to death on April 13. His body was also desecrated. A second student was also beaten up by the mob but was rescued by police and taken to hospital.In a statement, commission leaders, Bishop Joseph Arshad of Faisalabad, Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, national director of the Pakistani Catholic bishops’ National Commission for Justice and Peace and Cecil Shane Chaudhry, it's executive director, linked the murder with the presence of hate and discriminative material in the country's education system.Such material should be removed from every school textbook if we want to create a peaceful and tolerant...
