The suspected bombmaker in the Paris attacks in November was one of two suicide bombers who targeted the Brussels airport, officials said Wednesday, in a new sign that both attacks are linked to the same cell of the Islamic State group.
In another stunning turn in the snowballing corruption investigation that is shaking Brazil, top newspapers on Wednesday released scans of dozens of spreadsheets seized by police listing what appeared to be payments by one of the country's biggest companies to about 200 politicians, including code...
As police hunted for the surviving Brussels bomber, evidence mounted Wednesday that the same Islamic State cell carried out the attacks in both Paris and Brussels, and that the militants may have launched this week's slaughter in haste because they feared authorities were closing in on them. On...
On a fence-mending mission, President Barack Obama held up Argentina on Wednesday as an emerging world leader worthy of U.S. support, as he and Argentine President Mauricio Macri broke with years of tensions between their countries. Obama's state visit to Buenos Aires quickly turned into a love-fest...
Despite the high death toll and dramatic scenes of destruction, this week's attacks in Brussels appear to have been surprisingly easy to carry out, requiring little more than some careful preparation, a handful of motivated militants and ingredients that are readily available on store shelves....
Voters preparing for the June 7 California primary shouldn't expect to see endless television campaign ads from Sen. Bernie Sanders for the next two and a half months. Sanders said Wednesday during a visit to Los Angeles that instead he is counting on a ground game of liberal organizations — including...
Crowds in the tens of thousands have been a hallmark of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, but the turnout hasn’t translated into the primary votes he needs to surge past Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination. Sanders, who will rally Wednesday night in Los Angeles at the...
A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat. At a run-down strip mall in the neighborhood known as Little Arabia, flags from a half-dozen Muslim countries...
As Republicans in Utah waited for their caucuses to start on Tuesday night, Republican front-runner Donald Trump - who had lagged in the state's polls and went on to lose Utah - tweeted an attack on his chief rival that got personal. "Wow Sen. Ted Cruz, that is some low-level ad you did using a...
Detailed map of Damascus, Syria, shows the 12 locations the Obama administration says the Syrian government attacked with chemical weapons on August 21; map also shows areas controlled by the government, by rebel forces and contested areas.
Chart shows the monthly total of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, 2001- 2014 (projected); President Obama is expected to announce a plan to withdraw 34,000 troops by Feb. 2014, in his State of the Union address. MCT 2013
Map of Central Asia locating Krymsk, Russia, a city on the Black Sea where floods killed at least 170 people.
Map of southern California locating the planned route for the California high-speed train; California high-speed rail officials rebuff proposal from French railway to help with project.