The SWAT team was just finishing up a “active-shooter” training exercise when they got the call that a real-life massacre was taking place at a… Read More ›

Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, has died, according to… Read More ›

‘We cannot give in to those who would divide us. We cannot react in ways that erode the fabric of our society’   WASHINGTON –… Read More ›

Residents haunted by the carnage and loss, and by the new world inaugurated by the attacks, try to balance remembrance and rebuilding   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Terrorism is first and foremost an idea, which, like a virus, spreads, thrives under certain conditions, and changes form.   Fifteen years after al-Qaida perpetrated… Read More ›

The US and the Middle East Since 9/11: taking the region from bad to worse.   Fifteen years after the US “war on terror” was launched… Read More ›

  Chinese investors have been aggressively pursuing acquisitions, in a move that is unsettling to many. There is Syngenta’s record-breaking $48 billion sale to ChemChina, Ingram… Read More ›

  Sen. Tim Kaine received his first intelligence briefing as Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate on Thursday, a senior US intelligence official and two Clinton campaign sources… Read More ›

  Washington –  It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him… Read More ›

  Boston – Pfizer Inc’s chief executive on Thursday said recent proposals by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to curb “unjustified” U.S. drug prices would… Read More ›

  San Francisco – Uber riders can now choose the tunes whenever they hitch a ride. Uber Technologies Inc. said Thursday that riders can now… Read More ›

Paris – Three women who were likely planning an “imminent and violent” attack were arrested near Paris on Thursday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.… Read More ›