At least 16 people were killed and 200 more were injured on Thursday when shells landed at a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, its health ministry said, marking the latest instance that a U.N. facility has been hit during Israel's offensive
On paper, New Jersey's Chris Christie leads the nation's Republican governors. In practice, he is becoming a favored target of his peers
A shooter opened fire in the psychiatric unit of Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania, killing one female employee and injuring a doctor
Amazon shares tumbled over six percent in after-hours trading after the company reported losing 27 cents per share on revenue of $19.34 billion--Wall Street had been expecting, on average, a loss of 15 cents per share. The Bezos operation had a net loss of $126 million
The teenage pilot who died in a plane crash on Tuesday, while attempting to circumnavigate the world in 30 days, was less intent on breaking a world record than he was in "raising awareness about impoverished children" in his father's home country of Pakistan, friends say
A team of scientists from Harvard has determined that industrial air pollution from alien factories could be a sign of life outside our solar system, an outside-the-box idea that is setting the astrophysics community abuzz
Aviation officials lost contact on Thursday with an Air Algérie plane carrying more than 110 people between Burkina Faso to Algiers, as the jet flew over Mali
While presenting the trailer for the Beyoncé-approved adaptation of E.L. James' wildly popular erotic novel on the TODAY show Thursday, Dakota Johnson told co-host Savannah Guthrie that she doesn't want her mom and dad to check out her acting talents
While some research shows that watching media can make you more relaxed, providing momentary escape from life's stressors, researchers found that particularly busy and fatigued people actually felt guilty about spending so much time in front of the TV
In the Mississippi Delta, African-American men are learning about high blood pressure while they get their hair cut, thanks to the CDC's program B.R.O.T.H.E.R.S (Barbers Reaching Out to Help Educate Routine Screenings)
The National Football League confirmed the temporary suspension of the Baltimore Ravens player, who was also given a $58,000 fine after a grand jury indicted Rice with assaulting a woman he later married, saying that Rice violated the league's personal conduct policy
Russia’s ambassador to Malaysia said his country will cooperate with a Dutch-led investigation into last week's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, following reports that Russia-backed separatists felled it with a surface-to-air missile
NASA aims to continue their space exploration with their Asteroid Redirect Mission.
