
Former Tampa Bay Rays 1st Round Pick Arrested for Double Murder
Corona, California, police arrested a 2011 first-round pick of the Tampa Bay Rays for double murder Friday night.

Corona, California, police arrested a 2011 first-round pick of the Tampa Bay Rays for double murder Friday night.

Bush was alluding to an episode Thursday in which rival Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner who called Obama “Muslim” and “not even an American.”

A group of prominent Democratic Party fundraisers on Friday began circulating a letter to encourage a hesitant Vice President Joe Biden to enter the 2016 race for U.S. president.

President Barack Obama is nominating longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army’s new secretary. If confirmed, Fanning would be the nation’s first openly gay leader of a military service.

On her Patheos blog, Bristol Palin chided President Obama for extending a White House invitation to Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to school that was mistaken for a suitcase bomb.

Richard Sherman’s admonition to African Americans that “we need to deal with our own internal issues before we move forward and start pointing fingers” elicited a rebuttal from teammate Michael Bennett.

Vatican City (AFP) – He is the self-declared foe of unbridled capitalism, rabid consumerism and have-it-all lifestyles — but are conservatives right in fearing Pope Francis is anti-American at heart?

The Federal Reserve is keeping U.S. interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets.

The second GOP debate is over and inevitably you have argued with family members… you have waged war on Twitter….you have lost friends on Facebook… all in a futile effort to talk sense into so many people who watched the exact same debate but incomprehensibly did not see what you saw.

The Season 19 premiere of South Park featured a Deflategate dream sequence starring Eric Cartman as Tom Brady, co-starring Eric Cartman as Roger Goodell, and featuring a cameo of Eric Cartman as Bill Belichick.

Donald Trump has so far dominated his Republican rivals by sticking to the slimmest of playbooks: provoke attacks, and then pounce. On Friday, Rick Perry, who was the first GOP candidate to go after Trump in July, also became the first candidate to drop out of the race. “Everybody who attacks me is doomed,” Trump boasted to The Wall Street Journal over the weekend.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in the capital of Santiago and prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning for the Andean nation’s entire coast. Officials reported

Rutgers University suspended head football coach Kyle Flood for three games for contacting a faculty member about an academically-questionable defensive back and helping that player with grammar and editing on a paper.

The NFL reinstated on Wednesday the two New England Patriots staffers at the center of the Deflategate controversy.

Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former commander at Navy SEAL Team Six, has brought together a bipartisan coalition to commemorate October as “Special Operations Appreciation Month.”

Kris Silbaugh set the receiving yardage record for his Pennsylvania high school. He did so without a left hand.

A North Carolina town has approved the retirement of the police chief after he referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist group in a Facebook post.

The Colorado Rockies used more pitchers in a game than any team in MLB history Tuesday night. But it took slugger Nolan Arrenado to hit the ball out of the park to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chavez Ravine.

In 1979, as civil war in El Salvador began to grip the country, a young man named Aristedes Parada faced a choice: Stay home and be recruited into the bloody fight, or flee for a chance to survive.

At Bloomberg, Michael Bender attempts to explain the rise of Donald Trump. He points the finger at Jeb!

Donald Trump’s political rallies are, if nothing else, an event. While you wait for the Donald to appear—and even during his off-kilter and meandering talk—you can buy snacks. On Monday evening, American Airlines Center wasn’t just a venue for Trump’s next speech: It was open for business, and attendees could grab popcorn, peanuts, nachos, and plenty of beer.

Heavy rain sent flash floods coursing through a narrow slot canyon in southern Utah’s Zion National Park, killing four people and leaving three others missing, officials said Tuesday night.

(Reuters) – Pope Francis will deliver all but four of his 18 addresses during his forthcoming visit to the United States in Spanish because he is still not comfortable speaking in English, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

Talk radio host Glenn Beck responded on Facebook to criticism of his suggestion that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Tea Party supporters must have been motivated by racism in their opposition to President Obama. Beck wrapped up his comments by reprinting an editorial by Republican consultant Rick Wilson criticizing Trump’s supporters.

Conservative grassroots icon Jeff Sessions may break precedent and endorse a presidential candidate in the heated 2016 Republican primary, according to a new interview.