xa0 U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has admitted he "let my team down" when he falsely claimed that he and three of his USA Swimming teammates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro last week. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that aired Saturday night, Lochte said he was "taking full respon...

Aug. 20, 2016: United States' Diana Taurasi, right, leaps into the arms of teammate Angel McCoughtry as they celebrate their win over Spain in the women's gold medal basketball game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi shared a lo...

Aug. 20, 2016: A man and a woman mou next to a body of one the victims of a blast targeting a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, Turkey. (Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS) At least 22 people were killed and 94 others were injured Saturday when a bomb exploded at an outdoor wedding in southe Turkey, the pro...

xa0 The editor of the major Louisiana newspaper that urged President Obama to cut short his summer vacation to see the devastating flooding that has damaged roughly 40,000 home said Friday he’s pleased that the president will visit the state. “Our feeling is that this is a crisis that calls for pres...

xa0 Growing evidence suggests the recent cyber-attacks on top Democratic Party groups and the possible breach of Clinton Foundation computers are connected to Russian-backed cyber militias, say a former Defense Department official and other security experts. "This clearly has all indications of a la...

xa0 DORALEH, Djibouti – xa0It was February this year when camel drivers first spotted the Chinese troops staking out a patch of coastal scrubland about 8 miles from the largest U.S. military base in Africa. Chinese navy ships had visited this tiny East African nation before. They sometimes picked up...

xa0 The Pentagon wa ed the Syrian gove ment against carrying out airstrikes near U.S. and allied personnel Friday, one day after attacks caused the U.S. to scramble jets to protect special operations forces.xa0 Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said the U.S. has increased combat air patrols in that area and has...

xa0 One of four U.S. Olympic swimmers who were part of a now-infamous incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station said Friday that he never lied about being robbed. In a statement, Gunnar Bentz said that he and teammates Ryan Lochte, James Feigen, and Jack Conger had guns drawn on them by two security ...

WASHINGTON – xa0The former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Usama bin Laden will pay the gove ment more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department, according to federal court...

xa0 A two-page letter from Hillary Clinton's doctor a year ago, declaring the former first lady, senator and secretary of state "fit to serve" as president has done little to quell doubts about her health amid a gruelling campaign. Photos of the Democratic presidential nominee being helped up stairs...

xa0 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 running mate Mike Pence at his side, stopped at the home of Jimmy and Olive Gord...

xa0 The State Department admitted Thursday it postponed a $400 million payment to Iran in January until a group of Americans held in the country was released -- but not all media outlets apparently saw it as a top story. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the negotiations to re...

The French fleur-de-lis symbol engraved on a 16th-century bronze cannon discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Global Marine Exploration, Inc.) It's relatively common to find debris from rocket launches in the waters off Cape Canaveral in Florida, but divers exploring...

James (JJ) Hurtado, 14, was found dead in a remote area near Hermiston, Oregon, Thursday. HERMISTON, Ore. – xa0Two Oregon high school wrestling coaches are dead in an apparent murder-suicide and the body of a teenager who was last seen alive with one of them was also found, authorities said. Kenneth...

xa0 A two-page letter from Hillary Clinton's doctor a year ago, declaring the former first lady, senator and secretary of state "fit to serve" as president has done little to quell doubts about her health amid a gruelling campaign. Photos of the Democratic presidential nominee being helped up stairs...

xa0 A federal judge Friday ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from a conservative watchdog group about her use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The grou...

xa0 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reportedly told federal authorities during her questioning over her email practices while at the State Department that former Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged her to use a private email account. The New York Times reported Wednesday that ...

People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey (Reuters) Princeton has become no man’s land. The famed Ivy League institution rolled out a series of gender-neutral terms aimed at removing the word “man” and other male-leaning language from official school material. As first reporte...

xa0 The U.S. Olympic Committee apologized late Thursday for what it called a “distracting ordeal” involving four of its swimmers in an alleged robbery that Brazilian police have said they made up. “The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable, nor does it represent the values of Team USA or the ...

Feb. 14, 2013: Visitors stand in front of a logo of YouTube at the YouTube Space Tokyo, operated by Google, in Tokyo. (Reuters) Democrats on the nation's top campaign finance regulator may be opening the door once again to regulating political content on the Inte et, Republicans wa –xa0despite claim...