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Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fighting Tuesday to hold onto her House seat after losing her post atop the Democratic National Committee last month over a leaked email scandal, amid waings from her primary challenger that she’s taken her base “for granted.” First-time candidate Tim Canova, a law professor backed by Beie Sanders, is trying to unseat the incumbent Tuesday, in one of several big end-of-the-season primaries. Canova’s longshot bid to upset Wasserman Schultz got a huge boost this spring when Sanders endorsed him and even hinted at coming to Florida to campaign for him. He benefited again when Wasserman Schultz was caught up in the leak of emails showing top DNC officials crit...

This image released by the the Mass Graves Directorate of the Kurdish Regional Govement shows a human skull in a mass grave containing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar region of northe Iraq in May, 2015. An analysis by The Associated Press has found 72 mass graves left behind by Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, and many more are expected to be discovered as the group loses territory. (Kurdish Mass Graves Directorate via AP) (The Associated Press) FILE - In this April 3, 2015, file photo, an Iraqi man prays for his slain relative at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when ...

A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three waing shots at an Iranian ship that sailed within 200 yards in the Northe Persian Gulf Wednesday after one of four close calls this week involving U.S. and Iranian vessels, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. TheUSS Squall fired the shots, according to the official. On Tuesday, four Iranian small boats "harassed" the USS Nitze,sailing near the guided missile destroyerin the narrow Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. Navy official told Fox News. Other close calls this week involved the USS Tempest and USS Squall, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters Thursday. [embedded content] The Tempest and Squall were operating in i...

DEVELOPING:A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three waing shots at an Iranian ship that sailed within 200 yards in the Northe Persian Gulf Wednesday after one of four close calls this week involving U.S. and Iranian vessels, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. TheUSS Squall fired the shots, according to the official. On Tuesday, four Iranian small boats "harassed" the USS Nitze,sailing near the guided missile destroyerin the narrow Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. Navy official told Fox News. Other close calls this week involved the USS Tempest and USS Stout, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters Thursday. The Pentagon described the incidents as "unsafe and unp...

Close-up on canopy of Grumman Hellcat fighter aircraft seen in USS Independence aircraft elevator hatch (OET/Nautilus Live). Scientists have released incredible pictures of sunken light aircraft carrier USS Independence that were taken by underwater robots exploring the wreck. The historic ship, which served in World War II and was used in the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, was intentionally sunk off Califoia in 1951. The 622-foot-long Independence sits in 2,600 feet of water in the Greater Farallones National Maritime Sanctuary. Related Image Expand / Contract Bow of USS Independence (OET/Nautilus Live). Experts on the research vessel E/V Nautilus are using two Remote...

Dramatic photos Monday showed police in Iraq arresting a boy and uncovering an explosive belt around his waist, as the child reportedly claimed terrorists kidnapped him and forced him to blow himself up. The arrest took place two days after a bomber blew himself up at a wedding party in southeaste Turkey, killing at least 54 people on behalf of the Islamic State terror group.President Recep Teyyip Erdogan said Sunday the killer was between 12 and 14 years old, but investigators said Monday they were no longer sure whether the bomber was a child or an adult. Related Image Expand / Contract Iraqi security forces detaining the boy in Kirkuk. (REUTERS/Ako Rasheed) ISIS claimed respo...

People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey (Reuters) Princeton has become no man’s land. The famed Ivy League institution rolled out a series of gender-neutral terms aimed at removing the word “man” and other male-leaning language from official school material. As first reported Thursday by the conservative campus news outfit The College Fix, Princeton’s Human Resources and Office of Communications issued a four-page memo filled with examples of gender-neutral terminology that must now be used in official school documents, such as: The word “actress” should be replaced by “actor.” A “cameraman” must now be called a “camera operator.” There will be no more references...

Satellite photos released on Monday appear to show China making progress on construction of at least two dozen hardened concrete hangars suitable for housing Chinese air force planes, including strategic bombers and inflight refuelers, on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The photos were collected and studied...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., took a shot at Republican nominee Donald Trump Thursday, saying the billionaire “had a pretty strange run since the convention” and that he finds it “distressing” that he is not focusing on Hillary Clinton. “He’s had a pretty strange run since the convention,” Ryan saidonWTAQ radioin Green Bay. “You would think that we want to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, on all of her deficiencies. She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing thatthat’s not what we’re talking about these days.” Ryan faces businessman Paul Nehlen in next Tuesday's primary election, and his remarks came af...

DEVELOPING: The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is set to go free, after a judge decided Wednesday to allow would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. to live with his mother in Virginia full-time. Hinckley is set to begin his "convalescent leave" on Aug. 5, according to U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman's order. Friedman wrote that "all of the experts and treatment providers" who testified during the hearing agreed that Hinckley's issues -- major depression and psychotic disorder -- were "in full and sustained remission and have been for more than twenty years." Related Image Expand / Contract The home of John Hinckley's mother, where the would-be assassin is set to stay. (A...

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Pope Francis is set to arrive Wednesday in Poland, but the homeland of Saint Pope John Paul II – Francis’ most popular mode-day predecessor -- is not rolling out the red carpet for the pontiff whose social agenda has alienated many in the conservative nation. Francis will be in Krakow to celebrate World Youth Day, the event initiated more than 30 years ago by Pope John Paul II in which hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world gather. But unlike the favorite son the Easte European nation sent to the Vatican, Francis has received a chilly reception. Related Image Expand / Contract Pope Francis, seen last month at the Vatican, is not popular in the conservative nat...

Pope Francis is set to arrive Wednesday in Poland, but the homeland of Saint Pope John Paul II – Francis’ most popular mode-day predecessor -- is not rolling out the red carpet for the pontiff whose social agenda has alienated many in the conservative nation. Francis will be in Krakow to celebrate World Youth Day, the event initiated more than 30 years ago by Pope John Paul II in which hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world gather. But unlike the favorite son the Easte European nation sent to the Vatican, Francis has received a chilly reception. Related Image Expand / Contract Pope Francis, seen last month at the Vatican, is not popular in the conservative nat...

Pope Francis is set to arrive Wednesday in Poland, but the homeland of Saint Pope John Paul II – Francis’ most popular mode-day predecessor -- is not rolling out the red carpet for the pontiff whose social agenda has alienated many in the conservative nation. Francis will be in Krakow to celebrate World Youth Day, the event initiated more than 30 years ago by Pope John Paul II in which hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world gather. But unlike the favorite son the Easte European nation sent to the Vatican, Francis has received a chilly reception. Related Image Expand / Contract Pope Francis, seen last month at the Vatican, is not popular in the conservative nat...

Pope Francis is set to arrive Wednesday in Poland, but the homeland of Saint Pope John Paul II – Francis’ most popular mode-day predecessor -- is not rolling out the red carpet for the pontiff whose social agenda has alienated many in the conservative nation. Francis will be in Krakow to celebrate World Youth Day, the event initiated more than 30 years ago by Pope John Paul II in which hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world gather. But unlike the favorite son the Easte European nation sent to the Vatican, Francis has received a chilly reception. Related Image Expand / Contract Pope Francis, seen last month at the Vatican, is not popular in the conservative nat...

Pope Francis is set to arrive Wednesday in Poland, but the homeland of Saint Pope John Paul II – Francis’ most popular mode-day predecessor -- is not rolling out the red carpet for the pontiff whose social agenda has alienated many in the conservative nation. Francis will be in Krakow to celebrate World Youth Day, the event initiated more than 30 years ago by Pope John Paul II in which hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world gather. But unlike the favorite son the Easte European nation sent to the Vatican, Francis has received a chilly reception. Related Image Expand / Contract Pope Francis, seen last month at the Vatican, is not popular in the conservative nat...

The Solar Impulse 2 plane lands in an airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, early Tuesday, July 26, 2016, marking the historic end of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel, powered solely by the sunx92s energy. (AP Photo/Aya Batrawy) Solar Impulse 2 flew into the record books Monday when it completed its historic fuel-free global jouey around the world. Piloted by Bertrand Piccard, the solar-powered plane landed at Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi just after 8 p.m. EDT, after a 48-hour flight from Cairo. The flight was the 17th leg of a global odyssey that began in March 2015 when Solar Impulse 2 flew from Abu Dhabi to Oman. “It’s a fi...

A woman was mauled to death and another was seriously injured when they were attacked by Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing. The pair reportedly got into an argument while driving around Beijing Badaling Wildlife World, which ended when one of the women decided to get out of their car. CCTV footage shows the moment a tiger leaps at the woman from behind, grabbing her and pulling her away from the vehicle. The attack prompted a man and a woman to get out of the car to chase after the tiger in a bid to help. The second woman was killed by a tiger, which then carried her body away. It is reported that park staff rushed to help the pair, but were only able to save one of them. T...

Pop diva Ariana Grande found herself in a hole after a doughnut-licking incident seems to have cost her a gig at the White House, last week’s DNC email dump revealed. One leaked email exchange conceed whether to allow Grande to perform at a presidential gala last year a few months after TMZ posted the infamous video showing the singer at a bakery in Califoia licking doughnuts on the shop's counter. The emails also show officials were worried about the singer’s “I hate America” comment in the same video. Grande, whose real name is Ariana Butera, issued apologies in response to the video. In a chain of emails posted Friday by WikiLeaks, an official asks for Grande to be vetted for the “p...

Pop diva Ariana Grande found herself in a hole after a doughnut-licking incident seems to have cost her a gig at the White House, last week’s DNC email dump revealed. One leaked email exchange conceed whether to allow Grande to perform at a presidential gala last year a few months after TMZ posted the infamous video showing the singer at a bakery in Califoia licking doughnuts on the shop's counter. The emails also show officials were worried about the singer’s “I hate America” comment in the same video. Grande, whose real name is Ariana Butera, issued apologies in response to the video. In a chain of emails posted Friday by WikiLeaks, an official asks for Grande to be vetted for the “p...