Likely Republican presidential candidates gathered in Iowa over the weekend to woo would-be voters and caucus-goers at a "freedom summit". New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sought to highlight his conservative bona fides to skeptical Iowans
The Northeast is braced for "paralyzing, crippling blizzard-like conditions," forecasters warn, with 2 ft of snow in some areas
The president and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after talks Sunday they had made 'breakthrough understanding' in nuclear talks
Basketball star and frequent visitor to the hermit kingdom counters U.S. government's claim that it hacked the movie studio last year. "North Korea is going to hack a comedy, a movie that is really nothing? I can’t see that happening," he said
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough repudiated reports of a rift between the Obama administration and the Israeli Prime Minister on Sunday, after the Israeli leader agreed to speak to Congress in March without the President's knowledge
Islamist extremists attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, from three fronts and continued scorched-earth attacks on villages to the south as the U.S. Secretary of State arrived in Lagos to discuss the insurgency with President Jonathan Goodluck
Johnny Depp's critically mauled comedy Mortdecai took in only $4 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office, as Clint Eastwood's American Sniper passed the $200 million mark, becoming the second highest-earning movie of all time in the U.S.
The head of the UN's global health agency has laid out a set of reforms to better and more quickly fight disease outbreaks, in a frank acknowledgement that the organization struggled to confront the scale of the 2014 Ebola crisis
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said a video circulating online purporting to show hostage Haruna Yukawa had been killed was likely authentic, and called on the Islamist militants to release a second hostage, 47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto, unharmed
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said Saturday that a vigorous preparation process and atmospheric changes—not any tampering by his team—were to blame for the deflated game balls used in the Patriots' win over the Indianapolis Colts
Nearly six years after the duo tied the knot, Adams, 40, filed for divorce from Moore, 30, PEOPLE confirms. The couple pulled off an under-the-radar wedding in March 2009 in Savannah, Georgia, just four weeks after announcing their engagement
A National Science Foundation-funded expedition to the Antarctic has unearthed a surprising result: There are fish and other crustaceans who live without sunlight under almost half a mile of ice in 28-degree water
The New England Patriots have been under fire amid allegations that 11 of the 12 balls they used in the AFC Championship Game were inflated below NFL requirements
