Fred Thompson, former U.S. senator and actor, dies in Tennessee
Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor, has died. He was 73.
Turkey's ruling party wins big
Voters delivered a surprise win for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in elections on Sunday.
New assaults on ISIS in Iraq and in Syria
A thick column of black smoke hangs over the Iraqi Syrian border near the town of Ash Shaddadi in Syria 's Hasakah province. Above the area are the circular contrails of coalition planes.
Russian plane crashes in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board
A Russian passenger plane crashed early Saturday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard, officials said.
U.S. Navy finds wreckage believed to be missing cargo ship El Faro
The wreckage of a cargo ship believed to be the El Faro has been located by a U.S. Navy search team in about 15,000 feet of water, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday night.
Netanyahu retraction: Nazis, not mufti, decided on Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed controversial comments he made about the Holocaust, saying he never meant to claim that an Islamic leader persuaded Adolf Hitler to adopt the Final Solution to kill European Jews.
At least 4 die in Texas as storm system moves into Louisiana, Mississippi
A strong storm system that caused at least four weather-related deaths in Texas moved into Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday.
4 dead, including suspect, in Colorado Springs shooting
Three people were killed in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday morning before city police officers shot and killed a suspect, said the sheriff's office of El Paso County.
ISIS video purportedly shows beheadings of Kurdish fighters in Iraq
A video purportedly from ISIS surfaced online Friday and shows the terrorists beheading four Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in retaliation for the daring raid by U.S.-led coalition forces last week in northern Iraq.
Romanian nightclub fire leaves 27 dead, scores injured
Hundreds of young people were packed into a music club in central Bucharest, Romania, jamming to the head-pounding heavy metal music filling their ears.
