A Rhode Island ex-cop who killed himself after leading New Jersey troopers on a brief chase had his dead wife in the trunk, according to reports Sunday. The chase began when a trooper spotted Franklin Osgood, 61, on the New Jersey Tu pike in Bergen County Saturday night and tried to pull him over, N...

Concealed handgun license holders in Texas can carry their weapons into public university buildings, classrooms and dorms starting Monday, a day that also marks 50 years after the mass shooting at the University of Texas' landmark clock tower. The campus-carry law pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott and the ...

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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten...

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting e...

LOCKHART, Texas – A hot air balloon hit high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture in Central Texas, killing all 16 on board, according to federal authorities investigating the worst such disaster in U.S. history. A power line was tripped at 7:42 a.m. Saturday, and the first call to 911...

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting e...

BAGHDAD – It promises to be the biggest and perhaps last major battle against the Islamic State group in Iraq. Iraq's gove ment is setting its sights on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city that has been under IS control since June 2014, as its next major target. The assault is probably months away, bu...

(Reuters) Gretchen Lager's fondest childhood memories involved shooting bullets at tin cans and balloons along the Slippery Rock Creek in weste Pe sylvania - but one day in 1995, guns became a far more menacing presence in her life. Her brother-in-law killed his wife of 30 years - Lager's sister - w...

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting e...

SAN PEDRO DE COLALAO, Argentina – Pedro Luca has lived in a cave in northe Argentina for 40 years. The 79-year-old survives without ru ing water or electricity in his cave high in a mountain in northe Tucuman province. When he gets hungry he picks up his rifle and goes hunting or heads on a three-ho...

SAN PEDRO DE COLALAO, Argentina – Pedro Luca has lived in a cave in northe Argentina for 40 years. The 79-year-old survives without ru ing water or electricity in his cave high in a mountain in northe Tucuman province. When he gets hungry he picks up his rifle and goes hunting or heads on a three-ho...

BAGHDAD – It promises to be the biggest and perhaps last major battle against the Islamic State group in Iraq. Iraq's gove ment is setting its sights on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city that has been under IS control since June 2014, as its next major target. The assault is probably months away, bu...

LOCKHART, Texas – A hot air balloon hit high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture in Central Texas, killing all 16 on board, according to federal authorities investigating the worst such disaster in U.S. history. A power line was tripped at 7:42 a.m. Saturday, and the first call to 911...

(Reuters) Gretchen Lager's fondest childhood memories involved shooting bullets at tin cans and balloons along the Slippery Rock Creek in weste Pe sylvania - but one day in 1995, guns became a far more menacing presence in her life. Her brother-in-law killed his wife of 30 years - Lager's sister - w...

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels launched an offensive aimed at breaking the gove ment's siege of easte Aleppo on Sunday, where the U.N. estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling food and medical supplies. As the powerful, ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham faction a ounced the rebels' campaign, r...

MOSCOW – To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and ca ot be trusted, while th...

LOCKHART, Texas – It appears a hot air balloon made contact with high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture in Central Texas, killing all 16 on board, according to federal authorities who are investigating the worst such disaster in U.S. history. A power line was tripped at 7:42 a.m. Sa...

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels launched an offensive aimed at breaking the gove ment's siege of easte Aleppo on Sunday, where the U.N. estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling food and medical supplies. As the powerful, ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham faction a ounced the rebels' campaign, r...

TSA agents found 74 firearms during a period of one week in July. (TSA blog) The Transportation Security Administration would like to remind travelers to leave their loaded guns out of their carry-on bags. Related Image Expand / Contract Three inert grenades found by TSA officials in July. (TSA blog...

MOSCOW – To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and ca ot be trusted, while th...