WASHINGTON – Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility in the wake of deadly attacks by the Islamic ...

USS Conestoga at San Diego, Califo ia, January 1921. (Naval Historical Center Photograph NH 71299) Nearly 100 years ago, a Navy tugboat with 56 officers and sailors aboard was heading from Califo ia to the American Samoa when it disappeared without a trace. A massive air and sea search around the Ha...

Republicans are eager to win back the White House in 2016. A new Fox News national poll finds both John Kasich and Ted Cruz ahead of Democratic front-ru er Hillary Clinton in hypothetical matchups, while Donald Trump trails her. Kasich does best against Clinton. He has a double-digit advantage and a...

Democratic presidential front-ru er Hillary Clinton appears eager to finish her battle with primary rival Sen. Be ie Sanders -- but continues to benefit from his enduring campaign that keeps at least part of the national spotlight on her, and not Donald Trump. After wi ing the Arizona primary Tuesda...

The Supreme Court appeared deadlocked Wednesday along ideological lines as justices weighed another legal challenge to ObamaCare -- this one, brought by a religious nonprofit that objects to paying for insurance covering birth control. The case before the court is a hot-button trifecta — health care...

The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum ca age, officials have told The Associated Press. The n...

In a Republican primary race that’s seen its share of insults and mud-slinging, the battle between front-ru er Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz got even uglier Wednesday – as the candidates clashed over attacks on each other's wives. The Texas senator came out swinging Wednesday, telling CNN, “If Dona...

The Brussels terror attacks that killed at least 31 people Tuesday have reignited the debate on Capitol Hill over the Obama administration’s plans to let in thousands more Syrian refugees, amid fears the Islamic State could use the opening to enter and threaten the homeland. Though none of those inv...

The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclu...

The January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks were a wakeup call to take radical Islam seriously. The November Paris attacks put that call on a loudspeaker. The December San Be ardino attacks showed it could happen here, too. The Brussels attacks are proof that radical Islam has spread throughout the Europ...

Belgian police continued their dragnet Wednesday for the mystery man who appeared with two suicide bombers in a surveillance photo taken a day earlier, moments before explosions ripped through Zaventem Airport, killing at least 11 in the first of twin attacks that shook Brussels. Ove ight, police in...

LOS ANGELES – A Califo ia family appealed Tuesday to the state's highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed from their home after a lower court said her 1/64th Native American bloodline requires that she live with relatives. The family's lawyer, Lori Alvino McGill...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton padded their delegate totals with convincing wins in the valuable Arizona primary Tuesday night – but their respective rivals, Ted Cruz and Be ie Sanders, kept the race alive with victories in the Utah and Idaho caucuses. The Associated Press projected Sanders and Cr...

The rivalry between Republican presidential front-ru er Donald Trump and challenger Ted Cruz tu ed personal Tuesday after the real estate mogul lashed out at a hostile ad featuring his wife Melania. The ad, paid for by the anti-Trump Make America Awesome PAC, shows a nude photo of Trump's wife from ...

The rivalry between Republican presidential front-ru er Donald Trump and challenger Ted Cruz tu ed personal Tuesday after the real estate mogul lashed out at a hostile ad featuring his wife Melania. The ad, paid for by the anti-Trump Make America Awesome PAC, shows a nude photo of Trump's wife from ...

The January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks were a wakeup call to take radical Islam seriously. The November Paris attacks put that call on a loudspeaker. The December San Be ardino attacks showed it could happen here, too. The Brussels attacks are proof that radical Islam has spread throughout the Europ...

DEVELOPING: Brussels airport bomb suspect Najim Laachraoui has been captured, according to multiple Belgian media reports. The 25-year-old reportedly was arrested in Brussels' Anderlecht district, adjacent to the Molenbeek district that has become synonymous with homegrown jihadism in Belgium. Laach...

Two brothers who had ties to the ISIS cell that carried out last November's attacks in Paris reportedly carried out Tuesday's suicide bombings that rocked Brussels. Belgian state broadcaster RTBF, citing a police source, reported that Khalid and Ibrahim El-Bakraoui blew themselves up in a subway tra...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton padded their delegate totals with convincing wins in the valuable Arizona primary Tuesday night – but their respective rivals, Ted Cruz and Be ie Sanders, kept the race alive with victories in the Utah and Idaho caucuses. The Associated Press projected Vermont Sen. S...

The three terror suspects seen on surveillance video Tuesday moments before bombs exploded at Zaventem Airport in Brussels should have raised alarms with security officials and even a vigilant public, said U.S. experts with foreign intelligence. While it might be easy to sport red flags in retrospec...