Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Michel Platini has asked Sepp Blatter to withdraw as a candidate for re-election as International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) president.
A British man who attempted to join Islamic State in Syria has been jailed for six years.
Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Antoinette Perrine has barricaded her front door since her brother was killed three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore. She already has iron bars outside her windows and added metal slabs on the inside to deflect the gunfire.
PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign minister wants European countries to do more to fight the Islamic State group, and is seeking support from Russia in international talks about defeating the group. France, which joined U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State extremists
(AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a boy from the Blanco River in rural Hays County.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress wrestles over renewing the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, federal law enforcement officials are warning that legal authority is also at risk for lesser-known surveillance tools that are even more valuable in fighting terrorism.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five senior Taliban leaders released last year from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could move freely around the world next week as their one-year travel ban expires.
IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation based in Russia, two officials told the Associated Press.
Rick Santorum, an aggressive advocate for conservative family values, will launch a second bid for president on Wednesday, a spokesman said. The former Pennsylvania senator exceeded the political world’s expectations by scoring a second-place finish in the race for the Republican presidential nomination four years ago.
She doesn’t speak much to reporters, but she’s active on Twitter. Hillary Clinton says the Fifth Circuit got it wrong on immigration.
Both Bill Clinton and his family’s charity have been tied to soccer’s governing body, as well as Qatar’s disastrous World Cup bid.
Political reporter Ron Fournier writes that Hillary Clinton’s stumbling presidential campaign could be renamed the “Self-Inflicted Wound Tour.”
“With well over a year before the election, this is the stage of the race when Clinton should be working to get more comfortable on the trail by taking uncomfortable questions. The fact that she’s avoiding the press this early on is hardly a sign of confidence about her political readiness,” Josh Kraushaar writes.
The Associated Press reports that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, last seen on the Senate floor stumbling into a week-long vacation, is working on a memoir about his life in politics.
NEW YORK (AP) — An al-Qaida operative has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges.
The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece over the next two years.
From CNN: Hillary Clinton is facing new criticism of her family’s wealth and financial entanglements a week after she released financial records that omitted a company Bill Clinton has used as a conduit for his consulting work. The former president
A U.S. airman “with no apparent motive” walked into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in North Dakota early Tuesday and opened fire with a handgun, killing one worker and injuring a second before turning the gun on himself, police said.
A fraternity linked to a secret Facebook page on which photos of nude and semi-nude women were posted was shut down by Penn State for at least three years on Tuesday after the university’s Interfraternity Council recommended a milder punishment.
A “Pantsuit Up” tagline is written on the back of the novelty shirt and shop.hillaryclinton.com reminds buyers that a pantsuit bottom is not included.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services, but which demonstrates the complexity of the family’s finances.
Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.
Michael Sam came out to the media as a Montreal Alouette on Monday.
The Houston Rockets handed the Golden State Warriors a 128-115 loss on Memorial Day. Then the Houston Rockets organization handed each of its players a piece of paper.
