Two polls released Sunday show Democratic presidential front-ru er Hillary Clinton tied with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in a likely general election race, after having a double-digit lead just months ago. Clinton leads Trump 46-to-43 percent in a NBC News/Wall Street Jou al poll, co...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi a ounced the begi ing of military operations to retake the Islamic State-held held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address on Sunday night. Iraqi forces are "approaching a moment of great victory" against the Islamic State group, said ...

Tess McCormack, Ayaka Sano and Kelly Cowin. (Tess McCormack) New York was the meeting place this month for two women whose grandfather and great-uncle met as enemies on a World War II battlefield in the South Pacific. Kelly Cowin, 34, of Riverton, Utah, and Ayaka Sano, 34, of Toyko, Japan, became co...

Police guard the scene on Rochdale Street near Zabelle Ave where an Aubu Police officer was shot Sunday mo ing May 22, 2016, in Aubu , Mass. (Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT A police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop in a central Massachusetts town...

Hillary Clinton on Sunday effectively dismissed her two remaining White House rivals, suggesting that she’s better “vetted and tested” than Democratic primary opponent Sen. Be ie Sanders and that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is only “pretend” successful. “I have been vetted and tested...

Afghan authorities confirmed Sunday that the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. The National Directorate of Security said in a statement that Mansour was killed at 3:45 p.m. local time Saturday. The Associated Press, citing a statement from the ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (right) greets Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, as Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, looks on during welcome reception for the Climate Action 2016 summit on May 5, 2016. (Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) The Portland Public Schools...

An Illinois high school has come under fire after officials refused to let a graduate, who is also a U.S. Marine, walk across the stage Thursday in her blues. Marine Corps Pvt. Megan Howerton technically finished up her studies at McHenry West High School early in order to start her career as a Mari...

Police guard the scene on Rochdale Street near Zabelle Ave where an Aubu Police officer was shot Sunday mo ing May 22, 2016, in Aubu , Mass. (Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT A police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop in a central Massachusetts town...

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of pandering to the gun lobby in a speech to a conference Saturday, organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families of gun violence victims, wa ing the audience about a Trump presidency that would put more children “at risk of violence and bigotry.” C...

Afghan authorities confirmed Sunday that the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. The National Directorate of Security said in a statement that Mansour was killed at 3:45 p.m. local time Saturday. The Associated Press, citing a statement from the ...

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, Mt. Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal. (AP) KATHMANDU, Nepal – A Dutch man and an Australian woman died of apparent altitude sickness while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in the first deaths this year on the world's highest mo...

Dominique Blair says she was verbally abused simply for going to hear a conservative speak. If "counterculture" means fighting the status quo, then nobody on today’s college campuses is more radical than the outspoken conservative student. They face ridicule, censorship and bullying from sco ful cla...

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of pandering to the gun lobby in a speech to a conference Saturday, organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families of gun violence victims, wa ing the audience about a Trump presidency that would put more children “at risk of violence and bigotry.” C...

Dominique Blair says she was verbally abused simply for going to hear a conservative speak. If "counterculture" means fighting the status quo, then nobody on today’s college campuses is more radical than the outspoken conservative student. They face ridicule, censorship and bullying from sco ful cla...

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of pandering to the gun lobby in a speech to a conference Saturday, organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families of gun violence victims, wa ing the audience about a Trump presidency that would put more children “at risk of violence and bigotry.” C...

The first available audio from EgyptAir Flight 804 showed the pilot in normal contact with Swiss air traffic controllers as the flight continued on its course from Paris toward Cairo, hours before officials lost contact with the jet, the Associated Press reported Saturday evening. The seemingly stan...

The first available audio from EgyptAir Flight 804 showed the pilot in normal contact with Swiss air traffic controllers as the flight continued on its course from Paris toward Cairo, hours before officials lost contact with the jet, the Associated Press reported Saturday evening. The seemingly stan...

The first available audio from EgyptAir Flight 804 showed the pilot in normal contact with Swiss air traffic controllers as the flight continued on its course from Paris toward Cairo, hours before officials lost contact with the jet, the Associated Press reported Saturday evening. The seemingly stan...

Maddison Wentworth (Wentworth Family) The grief-stricken mom of a 13-year-old girl who died suddenly during a game of tug-of-war at her Alabama school said Saturday that her daughter was full of life and “never met a stranger.” Sixth-grader Maddison Wentworth was playing Thursday with other students...