EDMONTON (Reuters) - After some tough physical battles en route to the last eight of the Women's World Cup, Australia will face a very different challenge against defending champions Japan in Saturday’s quarter-final.
Univision is dropping the Miss USA pageant and says it will cut all business ties with Donald Trump in a spiraling controversy over comments the Republican presidential candidate made recently about Mexican immigrants.
A choir and band launched into one of Ethel Lance's favorite gospel tunes and roused hundreds of mourners from their seats Thursday in a crescendo of music at the first funeral for victims of the massacre at a historic...
France's interior minister, in a bid to halt a day of sometimes violent protests by taxi drivers angered by UberPop, said Thursday that the low-cost car service must be shut down. He said orders would be given to seize...
Grant Hill always wondered why the Atlanta Hawks struggled to attract big-name free agents.
The NFL Players Association has complained to the league about whether the Patriots improperly disciplined cornerback Malcolm Butler during voluntary workouts.
Baseball history will be made on a field of wistful dreams in Northern California's wine country Thursday with the appearance of the sport's first openly gay active professional.
Stocks edged lower Thursday as talks over keeping Greece solvent stalled and got extended into the weekend.
The inaugural flight of Latin America’s first electric plane, hailed as a soaring success, launches a new milestone for green energy solutions in the region. Soren Larson reports.
The inaugural flight of Latin America’s first electric plane, hailed as a soaring success, launches a new milestone for green energy solutions in the region. Soren Larson reports.
The inaugural flight of Latin America’s first electric plane, hailed as a soaring success, launches a new milestone for green energy solutions in the region. Soren Larson reports.
A former Charleston-area police officer accused of pressuring a 14-year-old boy into a sexual encounter is back in Charleston County after being arrested in North Carolina.
(Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit, hurt by a fall in prices and lower demand for its chips used in personal computers, sending its shares down 7.8 percent in after-market trading.
(Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes may feel better after a meal if they start it off with vegetables or proteins and end with the carbs, suggests a new study of 11 people.
(Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes may feel better after a meal if they start it off with vegetables or proteins and end with the carbs, suggests a new study of 11 people.
NEW YORK — A stronger economy, rising consumer confidence and cheap gasoline will likely have Americans traveling in big numbers this Independence Day.
Now that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death, he will likely be sent to the death row unit at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was...
The Education Department appointed a special monitor Thursday to help develop a debt relief program for students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges - a debt forgiveness plan that could cost billions of dollars.
BERLIN, June 25 (Reuters) - European Parliament President Martin Schulz said on Thursday he did not believe Greece would leave the euro zone and that an agreement between Athens and its creditors would be found, though it may take a few days yet.
Montana, a state that has long prided itself on strict campaign finance laws, is giving up on barring corporations from political spending and is instead attempting to expose every penny spent by them in elections.
Shares of TransUnion climbed Thursday after the credit rating company's initial public offering raised $664.8 million.
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination, handing a surprising victory to the Obama administration and civil rights activists.
Winning, and winning big, has been the standard for the Virginia baseball program since coach Brian O'Connor took over in 2004, and no excuses were allowed when the most trying circumstances cropped up.
* Lenders, insurers oppose such lawsuits (Recasts lead, adds Chamber of Commerce reaction)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative legal challenge that could have doomed President Barack Obama's healthcare law, upholding nationwide tax subsidies crucial to his signature domestic policy achievement.
