'History isn't finished with Joe Biden'
The vice president is being praised by Democrats and Republicans for his decision to stay out of the presidential race.
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Person of interest held in Albuquerque road rage shooting
Suspect in NYPD officer shooting charged with murder
The gunman who allegedly shot and killed a New York City police officer has been charged with murder, officials said. Tyrone Howard, 30, of East Harlem, who has prior gang-related offenses, was also charged with robbery in the shooting death of Officer Randolph Holder and stealing a bike in the process, officials said. Holder and other officers were responding to reports of gunshots in East Harlem, which police sources said
Biden: I’m not running for president in 2016
Democrats release Benghazi testimony of top Clinton aide
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday released a full transcript of testimony by a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Rubio uses ‘Back to the Future’ to mock Clinton and Biden in new Web ad
Biden will not seek 2016 Democratic presidential nomination
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, ending months of suspense and removing a huge political obstacle for front-runner Hillary Clinton. “While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent,” Biden told reporters in the White House Rose Garden with President Barack Obama and Biden’s wife Jill at his
Israel's Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of Muslim attacks on Jews in Palestine during the 1920s that he said were
Pilot killed as US Navy jet crashes near UK base
A US F-18 fighter jet crashed near a British air base on Wednesday, killing the pilot, police and the US Embassy in London said. The single-seater US Navy plane came down near the town of Ely, around 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of London, after taking off from RAF Lakenheath airforce base in Suffolk. “We can confirm that the aircraft was a military aircraft,” a police spokesman said.
Syrian President Assad travels to Moscow to meet Putin
It’s the Syrian leader’s first trip abroad since war broke out in his country in 2011.