Greek lawmakers were preparing to vote Thursday on the terms of the country’s third international bailout since 2010, which have split the ruling radical left Syriza party and met with a wary response in Berlin. The vote comes a day before eurozone finance ministers meet to issue their verdict on the draft deal reached by Athens and its creditors after weeks of negotiations — and despite Germany saying it needs
Trumpmania may be telling us a lot less about the dominant mood in the electorate at large than we think.
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A clerk’s office turned away gay couples who sought marriage licenses on Thursday, defying a federal judge’s order that said deeply held Christian beliefs don’t excuse officials from following the law.
Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether …
The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, will remain under a state of emergency for at least another night, county officials said on Wednesday. The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of security in the city of 21,000 people, was declared following a shooting incident at a protest Sunday night
Transition care for transgender members of the U.S. military would cost around $5.6 million a year, “little more than a rounding error” as a share of total expenditure, according to new research published amid criticism of proposed funding. The sum amounts to just 22 cents per service member per month, said Aaron Belkin, an academic at San Francisco State University, adding that the military’s annual healthcare budget is currently $47.8
As of Sunday, some 151 shootings had been reported in Boston this year, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year. Two other fatal shootings occurred in the neighboring cities, local police confirmed.
The former U.S. president announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday.
The enthusiastic audiences at his campaign stops are dwarfing the turnouts for Hillary Clinton.
U.S. Ambassador to Chile Mike Hammer is a widely respected career diplomat who has worked for presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.