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North Korea publicly executed two top officials earlier this month by shooting them with anti-aircraft guns, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday. The JoongAng Ilbo identified the murdered officials asformer agriculture minister Hwang Min and senior education ministry official Ri Yong Jin. According to Reuters, Hwang was identified by North Korea's state-run media as an agriculture minister in 2012 and a vice minister of agriculture in 2014. Due to the North Korean state's secretive nature, reports of executions and other govement purges are difficult to confirm. This past May, a former North Korean general believed executed was revealed to still be alive, in an embarrassing moment for...

Nearly a third of U.S. counties will be left with just one insurance option next year on the ObamaCare exchanges, according to a new analysis fueling waings about the impact of the insurance company exodus from markets across the country. The Kaiser Family Foundation study found residents in Pinal County, Ariz., are even at risk of having no insurance options on the exchanges, which provide subsidized plans. Republicans seized on the report Monday to claim that the health care overhaul is not providing the choices promised by President Obama and others. "The president repeatedly promised that his health care law would provide more choices, ‘bend the cost curve,’ and allow Americans ...

DEVELOPING:Explosions and gunfire rang out atAmerican University of Afghanistan in Kabul Wednesday in what a police commander described as "a complex attack." Photo attributed to the attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul pic.twitter.com/EVunzOpyd3 — KAZEMI, Mustafa (@CombatJouo) August 24, 2016 Reporters in the area said teachers and hundreds of students took cover in classrooms and safe rooms as police and special forces surrounded the campus on the weste outskirts of Afghanistan's capital city. A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at t...

The State Department admitted Thursday it postponed a $400 million payment to Iran in January until a group of Americans held in the country was released -- but not all media outlets apparently saw it as a top story. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the negotiations to retu the money – originally from a 1979 failed military equipment deal made between Iran and the U.S. – were conducted separately from negotiations to free the four prisoners. However, Kirby also said that the U.S. withheld the cash delivery until Iran made good on its promise to release the prisoners on January 17. The story was given prominence on most news sites and in newspapers. The New Yor...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reportedly told federal authorities during her questioning over her email practices while at the State Department that former Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged her to use a private email account. The New York Times reported Wednesday that Clinton’s revelation is part of the FBI’s notes that were given to Congress on Tuesday about the agency’s questioning in July that led Director James Comey not to pursue criminal charges against her over her use of private emails. An email exchange emerged from 2009 between Clinton and Powell during the questioning that revealed that she had asked the former secretary of state about his email ...

Palm trees are reflected in puddles after a torrential downpour in the South Beach part of Miami, July 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri ) Mosquitoes are actively transmitting the Zika virus in Miami Beach, sources aware of conversations that took place Thursday between Florida state health representatives and local officials have reportedlytold the Miami Herald. Officials were expected to confirm the new zone of transmission that afteoon, and the news could threaten the tourism hotspot of Miami-Dade County. Officials had been trying to halt the virus from spreading beyond a 1-square-mile section of Wynwood, an arts hub in the county just north of downtown Miami, since identifying local t...

Hillary Clinton's campaign is questioning a report about a top aide to Clinton when she was secretary of state also conducting interviews for the Clinton Foundation, saying implications about a potential conflict of interest are “absurd.” Then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills took an Amtrak train from Washington to New York City in June 2012 to interview two executives to potentially become the foundation’s next leader, sources told CNN, which first reported the story. Clinton purportedly accepted the secretary of state post in 2009 in part on the condition that any foundation activity would neither “create conflicts nor the appearance of conflicts” of interest for her. The CNN report doe...

A fresh report that federal prosecutors are probing the Clinton Foundation revived speculation Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may not be past her email problems, but the Justice Department on Friday declined to confirm the account. Despite the official decline, The Daily Caller reported that several investigations were being launched including one led by U.S. Attoey Preet Bharara of the Civil Frauds Unit that will focus on Clinton Foundation in New York. “We’re declining to comment,” a spokesperson told FoxNews.com about the claims. The FBI had investigated the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with the State Department during then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure,...

A cyberattack that targeted members of the Democrats reportedly was more widespread than previously thought and affected the private email accounts of more than 100 officials and groups. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the increasing scope of the hack prompted federal authorities to widen its investigation and that several Democratic officials have been notified that Russians may have tried to breach their accounts. According to the report, the hack attack appeared to have targeted the personal email accounts of campaign officials for Hillary Clinton and a handful of different party groups. Sources told Fox News last month that a hack into the House Democrats’ campaign arm b...

A cyberattack that targeted members of the Democrats reportedly was more widespread than previously thought and affected the private email accounts of more than 100 officials and groups. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the increasing scope of the hack prompted federal authorities to widen its investigation and that several Democratic officials have been notified that Russians may have tried to breach their accounts. According to the report, the hack attack appeared to have targeted the personal email accounts of campaign officials for Hillary Clinton and a handful of different party groups. Sources told Fox News last month that a hack into the House Democrats’ campaign arm b...

The U.S. Air Force is struggling to fill a shortage of 700 fighter pilots by the end of the year, even as the U.S. battles in three air wars against ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Libya. “It is a crisis,” said the U.S. Air Force’s new top officer, Gen. David Goldfein, aside Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James at the aual “State of the Air Force” briefing at the Pentagon Wednesday. “Air superiority is not an American birthright," Goldfein said. "It’s actually something you have to fight for and maintain.” Fox News first reported the Air Force shortage of 700 pilots after visiting two Air Force bases in May. Airmen told Fox News, in addition to the pilot shortage, they are 4,000 mechanics sh...

The U.S. Air Force is struggling to fill a shortage of 700 fighter pilots by the end of the year, even as the U.S. battles in three air wars against ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Libya. “It is a crisis,” said the U.S. Air Force’s new top officer, Gen. David Goldfein, aside Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James at the aual “State of the Air Force” briefing at the Pentagon Wednesday. “Air superiority is not an American birthright," Goldfein said. "It’s actually something you have to fight for and maintain.” Fox News first reported the Air Force shortage of 700 pilots after visiting two Air Force bases in May. Airmen told Fox News, in addition to the pilot shortage, they are 4,000 mechanics sh...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

May 7, 2016: Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson wears a body camera in Chicago. (Reuters) Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing a...

Hillary Clinton’s jobs record as a New York senator – which her campaign has made a centerpiece of her pitch to voters – is coming under fresh scrutiny, with a new report claiming her economic initiatives fell flat for workers, while benefiting deep-pocketed donors. The Washington Post report found that, as a senator from 2001-2009, the now-Democratic presidential nominee was unable to pass “big ticket legislation” that she introduced to benefit upstate New York, as job growth stagnated and manufacturing jobs fell by almost 25 percent. The Post cites U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showing upstate New York lost jobs during Clinton’s first term, with Albany losing more than 31,0...

Hillary Clinton’s jobs record as a New York senator – which her campaign has made a centerpiece of her pitch to voters – is coming under fresh scrutiny, with a new report claiming her economic initiatives fell flat for workers, while benefiting deep-pocketed donors. The Washington Post report found that, as a senator from 2001-2009, the now-Democratic presidential nominee was unable to pass “big ticket legislation” that she introduced to benefit upstate New York, as job growth stagnated and manufacturing jobs fell by almost 25 percent. The Post cites U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showing upstate New York lost jobs during Clinton’s first term, with Albany losing more than 31,0...

A man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu Akbar" injured two female police officers Saturday outside a police station in southe Belgium before being shot and killed, police said. Police reported that the injured officers were “out of danger.” The attack took place around 4 p.m. local time near the main police station in Charleroi. According to RTBF state broadcasting, one officer suffered severe injuries to her face while her colleague was slightly injured. It said a third officer shot the assailant. Charleroi police spokesman David Quinaux said the attacker carried the machete in a sports bag and pulled it out as he arrived at a security checkpoint outside police headquarters. Bel...