A deadly strike on a U.N. school that was sheltering thousands of Gazans who were told to evacuate their homes has become an example of the loss and desperation facing many innocent civilians in the midst of a three-week-old war between Israel and Hamas
A House GOP measure granting Speaker John Boehner the authority to sue Obama passed 225 to 201, without a single Democrat's support
The $16.3 billion measure is intended help veterans avoid long waits for health care, hire more doctors, and make firing senior executives at the VA easier
The miniseries will be based off the 1999 book Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin and will star Oscar Isaac of Inside Llewyn Davis and Catherine Keener of Captain Philips will star. The show is slated to run for six hours on the premium cable network
Evan Reed is accused of sexually assaulting a 45-year-old woman in Michigan in late March, while knowing the victim was "physically helpless or mentally incapacitated or mentally incapable to consent." Reed's lawyer called the charges "ridiculous"
Johnson and Johnson is urging surgeons not to use a surgical tool that has in studies been shown to spread some forms of uterine cancer and lower chances of survival. The company is also urging those who have purchased the device to return it
The Peace Corps announced on Wednesday that it's pulling volunteers out of parts of West Africa amid an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Volunteers stationed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are being recalled until further notice
Feds badly managed the development of a website to sell health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, potentially costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, according to testimony that will be delivered to a House subcommittee Thursday
In the 1990s and 2000s combined, only six Senate races were impacted by third-party candidates, but all that is changing. In the past four years, the outcomes of four Senate races have been impacted by outsiders, and this year is lining up to deliver more shakeups
The two conditions have been linked before, but a new study, which looked at 1,764 people with no memory problems around age 77, and followed them for about eight years, says depression may be an independent risk factor for the disease
The artist's controversial installation — consisting of an unmade bed surrounded by piles of discarded condoms, old liquor bottles and pregnancy tests — will be exhibited at the Tate for at least 10 years, on long-term loan from its most recent owner
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc did not intend his Monday speech on "moral corruption" to get big laughs, but when he advised women to suppress their laughter in public, it landed on the public like a well-crafted punch line
Cortana vs. Siri, round one: Fight!
