The families of victims killed last year when a suicidal pilot flew an airliner into a mountainside in the French Alps filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. flight school where the pilot was trained, alleging the school failed to properly screen his medical background. The suit was filed in… Read More
Embarrassing! Paul Ryan to miss budget deadline
House Republicans are about to blow through a statutory deadline to pass an annual budget, a major embarrassment for Speaker Paul Ryan that raises questions about his stewardship of the House despite his high profile on the national stage. A day after rampant speculation forced him to call a news… Read More
Anti-Trump money has a new target — delegates
After burning through millions of dollars in a mostly failed attempt to sway Republican primary voters, big-money outside groups opposing Donald Trump have turned to a far smaller target audience: the delegates who will actually choose the presidential nominee. Our Principles, which is devoted to keeping Trump from winning, and… Read More
Miracle medical breakthrough could reverse paralysis
A paralyzed 24-year-old man has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain. Ian Burkhart of Dublin, Ohio, can grasp a bottle, pour its contents into a jar, pick up a stick and stir the liquid. He can grab a… Read More
Busted! Suspected Paris attacks gunrunner caught
Spanish police have arrested a Frenchman suspected of supplying weapons to Paris attacker Amedy Coulibaly for use in the deadly January 2015 attacks in the French capital, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry statement said Antoine Denive, 27, from the northern French town of Sainte Catherine was arrested Tuesday… Read More
Russian aggression! Jet ‘buzzes’ US Navy warship
Russia’s defense ministry has rejected complaints by U.S. officials who claimed Russian attack planes buzzed dangerously close to a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea earlier this week. The U.S. European command has said the Russian planes buzzed multiple times on Monday and Tuesday in what the U.S. officials… Read More
The astonishing record. The huge farewell. A big night for the NBA
The stars did not disappoint. And the most-celebrated closing night in NBA regular-season history not only lived up to expectations, it might have exceeded them with a pair of performances that will be talked about for years to come. Golden State became the first team to win 73 games in… Read More
[Revealed] Obama’s 5 biggest blunders
President Barack Obama’s presidency has been riddled with mistakes and outright foolish decisions. In an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday, Obama revealed that he thought his biggest mistake was how he handled the power change in Libya in 2011. But why stop there? We’ve compiled a countdown of what… Read More
Racist Hillary skit leaves voters furious
It’s the kind of gaffe that would have had angry voters calling for Donald Trump’s or Ted Cruz’s head. So will they hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accountable, too? Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have come under fire over a so-called comedy skit that included… Read More
Bag ‘em and tag ‘em! Air Force destroys terror cell
They were plotting to kill Americans and had asked Allah for his blessings. But for a dozen jihadists in North Africa, they only thing that anointed them was a couple U.S. Air Force warheads. A Pentagon spokesman says the U.S. conducted airstrikes Monday and Tuesday in Somalia that killed an… Read More