Confronting climate change is a major agenda item at this week’s U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Dallas, Texas, including climate protection awards, climate panels, and a discussion with U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and U.S. DOE Secretar ...

A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted four compounds early Thursday, killing 10 militants in Pakistani tribal areas, officials said.

The European Commission raised pressure on Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg over their corporate tax practices, saying it was investigating deals the countries have cut with Apple, Starbucks and Fiat. The EU is looking at whether the countrie ...

A few days ago, the NRA inadvertently said something reasonable. This, in response to a series of protests in Texas. It seems advocates of the right to openly carry firearms have taken to showing up en masse at public places — coffee shops, museums ...

Seems it was a day of near misses. In northern Germany a small plane, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer II to be specific, approached the runway to land on the airstrip at Dune, a small island off Heligoland that caters to tourists. The pilot descended towar ...

Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse pleaded guilty to a criminal charge that it helped wealthy Americans dodge income taxes for decades, a plea federal officials said bolstered their efforts to show that no financial firm was too big to prosecute.

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On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth University and his colleagues showed that presenting people with information confirming ...

What are the great MLK speeches we've never heard? We pick six overlooked gems from King -- and each blows away the popular image of the civil rights leader.

Just to get one thing out of the way, though it is irrelevant, China owns a little under 8 percent of American sovereign debt. If that seems like a small amount to you, then you are very perceptive. In fact, most of the U.S. government’s debt is owne ...