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A sculpture, titled “Mother of the Martyr,” depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with her arms outstretched with a helmeted soldier standing behind her. (AP) A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers, which used to have a helmeted soldier standing behind the woman. (AP) Previous Next CAIRO – A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country. The concrete sculpture, titled "Mother of the Martyr," depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional ...

President Obama may be struggling to tilt the balance of the Supreme Court – but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t already made his mark on the bench. The president, over the course of his two terms, has appointed hundreds of justices to the lower federal courts, leading to a majority of appeals courts now dominated by Democratic picks. While those nomination battles aren’t nearly as high-profile as they are for the high court, the impact of the appointments is just as pronounced. “It's often overlooked, but nominees to the lower courts ... are often one of the most important legacies a president leaves behind,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center. ...

The heroin epidemic that has plagued the nation’s urban and rural communities alike had not spared West Virginia, but nothing prepared Cabell County officials for 26 overdoses in a four-hour span last week. The wave of misery was focused in a Huntington public housing complex, where victims injected from a batch of the drug believed to have been laced with Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine. Investigators believe two fatalities that occurred during the same time period could be related. “We have never seen anything like this before to this magnitude,” said Gordon Merry, Emergency Management Service director for Cabell County. Related Imag...

Four companies on Monday aounced they would end their sponsorship deals withU.S. Olympic swimmerRyan Lochte, bringing a sudden stop to contracts worth an estimated $1 million in the wake of his scandal in Rio de Janeiro. Syneron-Candela, owner of Gentle Laser Hair Removal, released a statement saying the company wound end its partnership with the athlete, adding, "We hold our employees to high standards, and we expect the same of our business partners." Earlier Monday, Ralph Lauren executives stated their company's contract with Lochte was for the 2016 Rio Olympics only, and would not be renewed. "Ralph Lauren continues to sponsor the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team and the values t...

Donald Trump landed Friday in flood-ravaged Louisiana Friday, where he consoled homeowners and toured devastated communities, telling one homeowner he is "going to rebuild." The Republican presidential nominee, with ruing mate Mike Pence at his side, stopped at the home of Jimmy and Olive Gordan in Denham Springs, where the couple was still sweeping out floodwaters from their home. A ruined couch, chair and bedroom fuiture were piled on their lawn, and Jimmy Gordan told Trump he spent his 79th birthday on the roof of his house. Related Image Expand / Contract Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, and his ruing mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, listens to flood victi...

BANGKOK – Coordinated explosions targeting some of Thailand's most popular resort cities and beach towns killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. Police said Friday that 10 foreigners were injured in the violence, some of the worst here since the military seized power in a coup two years ago. It was not clear who was behind the attacks Thursday and Friday, but police ruled out links to inteational terrorism or a low-level insurgency in the country's Islamic south. The timing and scope of the attacks suggested the bombs were set off by opponents of the Southeast Asian nation's ruling junta, which last weekend organized a successful referendum on a constitution that critics...

An "arm in arm" decal is affixed to a Dallas Cowboys helmet at the NFL football team's training camp Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Oxnard, Calif. (AP) The NFL denied the Dallas Cowboys’ request to wear a decal on their helmets during the season that would have paid tribute to the five police officers killed last month in an ambush. The team had been wearing a decal with the words “Arm in Arm” since the first day of training camp this summer. Dallas police Chief David Brown and Mayor Mike Rawlings paid the team a visit on that day, according to Fox 4 News. The NFL’s strict rules on uniforms forced the league to deny the Cowboys’ request to wear the decal for the upcoming season. Dallas poli...

A former Marine court-martialed in part for refusing to remove abiblical phrase from her workspace lost her appeal on Wednesday, when a federal court concluded the orders from her superiors did not constitute a "substantial burden" on her First Amendment rights. Monifa Sterling, who was a lance corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., was court-martialed for various offenses relating to separate incidents – including disrespecting a superior officer, disobeying lawful orders, and failing to report to an assigned duty. But the part of the case that fueled her court challenge involved orders to remove a personalized version of the biblical phrase from Isiah 54:17: "No weapon formed agai...

A U.S. immigration official accused in a federal report of hindering law enforcement agents seeking a suspect in the San Beardino terror attack and then lying about it has been nominated for a prestigious award – for telling her employees to stay calm and fetching one who was eating lunch in his car. ...

Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter looks on during a game against the Utah Jazz. (AP) Turkish politics spilled onto the basketball court Monday when an Oklahoma City Thunder player was disowned by his family in Turkey and responded by changing his last name to show devotion to a controversial U.S.-based cleric locked in a bitter feud with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Enes Kanter, a 6'11" cent...

Nov. 1, 2015: Military investigators from Russia stand near the debris of a Russian airliner at the site of its crash at the Hassana area in Arish city, northe Egypt. (Reuters) DEVELOPING:The leader of the Islamic State’s operations in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and mastermind of the October 2015 attack on a Russian airliner in the region that left 224 dead has been killed by Egypt’s air force, intelligence sources told Fox News Thursday. ISIS Sinai leader Abu Dua al-Ansari was killed in Al Arish, the sources said. A post on the Facebook page of the military's chief spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir, said al-Ansari was killed in an operation guided by "accurate intelligence." He helpe...

At left, Warren Buffett with Hillary Clinton; at right, George Soros (AP/Reuters) Donald Trump has his billions, but Hillary Clinton has her billionaires. As the candidates formally enter the general election season after their conventions, the former secretary of state’s wealthiest backers are pouring money into political groups opposing Trump. Within the past year, according to a review by FoxNews.com, a total of 24 billionaireshave donated more than $42.5 million to two Clinton campaign arms and three allied super PACs. All this is in preparation for a blitz of advertising and other efforts to defeat Trump over the next three months – as some big-money Republicans stay on the sideline...

The Supreme Court – it’s no secret – is at stake in the 2016 election. But legal experts say the impact will befar more sweeping if Hillary Clinton wins in the fall, and is able to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia with a left-leaning judge. That point was only underscored at last week’s Democratic convention, where the Democratic presidential nominee pushed for changes on everything from campaign finance to gun rights, at times citing the court’s role. Here’s a closer look at what’s at stake, with many of these issues likely to come before the next court: Campaign finance Appealing in part to Sen. Beie Sanders supporters, Hillary Clinton made campaign finance restrictio...

The Supreme Court – it’s no secret – is at stake in the 2016 election. But legal experts say the impact will befar more sweeping if Hillary Clinton wins in the fall, and is able to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia with a left-leaning judge. That point was only underscored at last week’s Democratic convention, where the Democratic presidential nominee pushed for changes on everything from campaign finance to gun rights, at times citing the court’s role. Here’s a closer look at what’s at stake, with many of these issues likely to come before the next court: Campaign finance Appealing in part to Sen. Beie Sanders supporters, Hillary Clinton made campaign finance restrictio...

A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 5-3 decision, the high court put on hold a lower court ruling that ordered the Gloucester County School Board to let Gavin Grimm use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. The school board is expected to ask the justices to further intervene in the case later this month. The decision means Grimm will be barred from using the boys bathroom for at least the first half of his senior year, said Josh Block, an attoey with the American Civil Liberties Union who's representing Grimm. "The school board welcomes the Supreme Court's...

An artificial lake built in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb, top, is separated by a narrow strip of sand from the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay, below, where trash lines the shoreline. (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu) Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways ofRiode Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by The Associated Press. Not only are some 1,400 athletes at risk of getting violently ill in water competitions, but the AP's tests indicate that tourists also f...

PHILADELPHIA – Despite the Democratic Party’s robust efforts this week to put forward a show of unity at their Philadelphia convention – including bringing Hillary Clinton onstage Wednesdaynight for ahandoff hug from President Obama – a rowdy swath of disaffected voters is making clear the theatrics haven’t healed the fractured base. Anti-Clinton and other demonstrators are moving forward Thursday with at least one protest, and holding events encouraging voters to “de-register” from the party. They’re operating in part under the Twitter hashtag #DemExit, one that Green Party candidate Jill Stein has deftly been using as she openly appeals to Sanders supporters to join her team outside ...

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...

Solar Impulse took off from Cairo, and is headed toward Abu Dhabi for its final leg on the Round The World jouey. Credit: Solar Impulse/Revillard Solar Impulse 2 began the final leg of its incredible fuel-free round-the-world jouey when it took off from Egypt Saturday. Piloted by Bertrand Piccard, the solar-powered plane left Cairo Inteational Airport at 7:28 p.m. EDT and is expected to arrive at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi Monday after a flight of about 48 hours. “Trying to rest in #Si2 after taking off from Cairo. Excited to attempt the final leg of the round-the-world flight,” Piccard tweeted late Saturday. The final leg, however, poses major challenges as Solar Impulse 2...

CLEVELAND – Just over a year after Donald J. Trump descended his iconic escalator in Manhattan to aounce he was joining a packed field of political veterans seeking the Republican nomination for president, the New York billionaire completed an astonishing and historic political ascent Thursday night in Cleveland, officially claiming his party’s nomination — and declaring to struggling Americans, “I am your voice.” Trump electrified the convention crowd on closing night, with chants of “U.S.A.” frequently breaking out as the nominee vowed to put “America first.” He used the speech to align his campaign squarely on the side of struggling American workers of all political stripes,as he mo...