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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 ...

This undated photo shows Ryan Coles, who is accused of killing his parents Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. (Salem County Correctional Facility) A suburban Philadelphia couple were beaten to death by their own son in their New Jersey home, authorities said Saturday. Edward Coles Jr., 58, and wife Rosemarie Coles, 55, of West Deptford, were found dead by another family member Friday moing. The couple's son, 28-year-old Ryan Coles, was arrested on murder and weapons charges. His bail was set at $1 million. The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said that the couple died from "blunt head trauma" and alleged that Ryan Coles had bludgeoned his parents "with his hands and an unknown object." Neighbor...

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...

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...

The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her "reckless handling" of classified information contributed to their deaths. The case was filed in the U.S. D...

The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her "reckless handling" of classified information contributed to their deaths. The c...

The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her "reckless handling" of classified information contributed to their deaths. The c...

Justin and Jamie Whited. (Walton County Sheriff's Office) A brutally abused infant girl’s incarcerated parents – who have been charged with her vicious assault – were allowed a final visit with their daughter on Monday in a Georgia hospital before doctors removed the baby from life support. The girl, Dinah Paige Whited, had been on life support for three months at the hospital in Monroe, ever since the then-7-week-old girl suffered a beating that resulted in bleeding on the brain, two broken collar bones and several broken ribs, The Atlanta Joual Constitution reported. Related Image Expand / Contract Justin Whited could be charged with murder after Dinah Whited is removed from life su...

These are just some of the supplies purchased by Amy Rhine, a kindergarten teacher in Las Vegas, Nev., for her class last year. Cash-strapped schools across America are demanding that parents spend hundreds on supplies, even requiring bulk purchases of cleaning materials that benefit the entire class, in a move that is fomenting anger among moms who say the lists are real budget busters. Elizabeth Shatz, a PTA parent from Mineola, N.Y., said she was required to purchase three 20-count boxes of pencils, multiple containers of baby wipes and boxes of tissues to be distributed among her child’s entire classroom. She also had to search store shelves for folders and notebooks in very specific...

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...

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...

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...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider him a threat. "I've experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core," the posting read. The message was posted July 8, just three days after a black man was shot and killed by police in Baton R...

July 17, 2016: This undated photo provided by Trenisha Jackson shows her husband, Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson, one of the three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers who were killed. (Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP) BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consid...

Keeth and Colleen Shults with their children, including the foster daughter they hope to adopt, whose identity was intentionally obscured pending the case. (Courtesy: Shults family) Keeth and Colleen Shults want to permanently welcome a foster child into their Fairmount, Ill., family, but claim in a federal suit filed this week they are being forced to surrender their Second Amendment rights to do it. Already parents of three, the couple is in the process of formally adopting a daughter through the state foster care system and is fighting Department of Children and Family Services rules they say severely restrict their gun rights. The couple charges that the firearm restrictions aimed at...

Keeth and Colleen Shults with their children, including the foster daughter they hope to adopt, whose identity was intentionally obscured pending the case. (Courtesy: Shults family) Keeth and Colleen Shults want to permanently welcome a foster child into their Fairmount, Ill., family, but claim in a federal suit filed this week they are being forced to surrender their Second Amendment rights to do it. Already parents of three, the couple is in the process of formally adopting a daughter through the state foster care system and is fighting Department of Children and Family Services rules they say severely restrict their gun rights. The couple charges that the firearm restrictions aimed at...

The U.S. State Department sent nearly $350,000 to an advocacy group that worked to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Senate report released Tuesday. OneVoice Movement, a group that supported peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian factions, received grants from the State Department during a 14-month period ending in November 2014, according to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report. Shortly after the U.S. grants ended, OneVoice merged with an Israeli group Victory 15, which launched a political campaign in Israel with a goal to elect "anyone but Bibi," a nickname for Netanyahu. The chairman of the committee, Sen. Rob Portman, ...

There’s no place like home, there’s no place like … wait, that one’s pretty close. A Long Island couple says an architect ripped off the blueprint to their one-of-a-kind dream house — to build a carbon copy in the town next door. Rivka Fortgang, an interior and exterior home designer from Five Towns, and her husband, Seth are now suing to block the mansion on Villa Place in Cedarhurst from being built because it will look nearly identical to their own home on Auerbach Lane in Lawrence, just a mile away. The Fortgangs “constructed their unique home from the ground up, creating a visually distinctive and unique exterior stucco façade” in 2005 and copyrighted the original architectural dr...

Chad Eastlack and Pey Worthy. (Randolph County Sheriff's Office) Authorities said Sunday two North Carolina parents were caught after kidnapping their own infant son from a social services department, then apparently driving him 2,000 miles to Montana in a stolen minivan. The cross-country search for the boy began after the Randolph County Department of Social Services in North Carolina deputies on Tuesday that 8-month-old John Eastlack had been taken by his parents and was missing, the sheriff’s office said. The boy had previously been placed in social services’ custody, but authorities didn’t reveal why. An Amber Alert issued last week said the boy was abducted by his parents, Pey Diae...

Chad Eastlack and Pey Worthy. (Randolph County Sheriff's Office) Authorities said Sunday two North Carolina parents were caught Sunday after kidnapping their own infant son from a social services department, then apparently driving him 2,000 miles to Montana in a stolen minivan. The cross-country search for the boy began after the Randolph County Department of Social Services in North Carolina deputies on Tuesday that 8-month-old John Eastlack had been taken by his parents and was missing, the sheriff’s office said. The boy had previously been placed in social services’ custody, but authorities didn’t reveal why. An Amber Alert issued last week said the boy was abducted by his parents, P...