One mystery in President Obama’s decision to engage in a long battle to defeat ISIS is whether it will hurt or enhance the chances of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
A joint communiqué issued by the United States and 10 Arab states endorsed a broad strategy to fight ISIS, but none of the Arab participants said precisely how they would help.
There was intense debate on Thursday over whether airstrikes on ISIS would help or harm President Bashar al-Assad, his armed Syrian opponents and war-weary civilians.
The regulators issued penalties totaling $46 million against Volkswagen and Chrysler, saying the automakers conspired to keep prices high on cars and replacement parts.
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Monrovia, the Liberian capital, is facing a widespread Ebola epidemic, and as the number of infected grows faster than hospital capacity, some patients wait outside near death.
Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa said there was not sufficient evidence to convict Oscar Pistorius of the gravest charges, but adjourned court with a lesser homicide charge still pending.
A U.S. court ordered the release of documents containing Yahoo’s challenge to government surveillance.
This year, as families of the victims gathered in Manhattan, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, talk of new military campaigns was shadowing the solemn day.
A study looking at daily attitudes provided a rough idea of just what constitutes the moral content of a random day.
In fashion, as in literature, the structures that were created long ago still hold us in their thrall, just as Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Oscar de la Renta and Sophie Theallet have.
Youth is wasted on the young, but fashion has a way of yanking it back. A look at party-inspired collections from Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs.
World War II dramas give Beijing a handy propaganda tool to shore up patriotic fervor.
The United States needs to be on the right side of a fault line that has opened between Islamists and non-Islamists.
