Israel needs a two-state  situation,  if not a solution : ex-ambassador

Israel needs a two-state situation, if not a solution : ex-ambassador

Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., is pushing what he calls "Plan B," wherein Israel draws a border through the West Bank,...

California drought expected to cost state $2.2 billion in losses

California drought expected to cost state $2.2 billion in losses

California's drought is expected to cost the state more than $2 billion this year as well as some 17,000 jobs. Mana Rabiee reports">  

U.S. confirms bombing Islamic State militants

U.S. confirms bombing Islamic State militants

As the U.S. bombs Iraq to protects its personnel from the Islamic State and prevent an act of "genocide," hundreds of ethnic Yazidis run for...

Missouri Governor Nixon declares state of emergency

Missouri Governor Nixon declares state of emergency

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declares a state of emergency and imposes a curfew in Ferguson after a week of racially charged protests over th...

U.S. hits Islamic State fighters at Mosul Dam

U.S. hits Islamic State fighters at Mosul Dam

The Pentagon releases video it says shows U.S. military airstrikes against Islamic State targets near Mosul Dam in Iraq, as Yazidis try to f...

ACA price outlook varies widely state-to-state for 2015

ACA price outlook varies widely state-to-state for 2015

Katherine Baicker of the Harvard School of Public Health explains the factors driving state-to-state premium disparities under President Oba...

Singapore to use state-of-the-art farming tech to produce more veggies

Singapore to use state-of-the-art farming tech to produce more veggies

Scientists at an indoor produce farm in Singapore are using cutting edge technology to reduce growing times and costs. The Panasonic lab-far...

Obama calls Islamic State a 'cancer'; vows justice for beheaded American journalist

Obama calls Islamic State a 'cancer'; vows justice for beheaded American journalist

President Obama says "American does not forget" and vows to capture those responsible for killing journalist James Foley, who was beheaded b...

Americans in New York sound off on President Obama and the Islamic State

Americans in New York sound off on President Obama and the Islamic State

Americans in New York comment on President Barack Obama's upcoming speech in which he is expected to lay out plans to fight Islamic State mi...

Kerry arrives in Baghdad to build support against Islamic State

Kerry arrives in Baghdad to build support against Islamic State

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Iraq at the start of a tour of the Middle East to build up support in the fight against Islami...

Boehner has doubts on Obama's plan to destroy Islamic State

Boehner has doubts on Obama's plan to destroy Islamic State

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner says he is willing to work with Obama, but Republican lawmakers have doubts about whether the president's pl...

Obama to press Congress for action on Islamic State

Obama to press Congress for action on Islamic State

President Obama meets with top lawmakers at the White House as the administration seeks support for an offensive against Islamic State milit...

Holder announces pilot programs to prevent youth from joining Islamic State

Holder announces pilot programs to prevent youth from joining Islamic State

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces a series of programs designed to bring together community leaders, law-enforcement officials, an...

Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State

Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says countries inside and outside the Middle East have pledged military support against IS militants with...

Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State

Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. is "at war with ISIL" in the same sense that it went to war with al Qaeda, and that some al...

State Department sidesteps questions on North Korean internet

State Department sidesteps questions on North Korean internet

Verbal sparring at State briefing as reporters question if U.S. was involved in an apparent North Korean internet outage. Rough Cut (no repo...

Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video

Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives in video

The militant Islamic State group releases an online video purporting to show two Japanese captives and threatening to kill them unless it re...

Amateur video of Japanese journalist held by Islamic State

Amateur video of Japanese journalist held by Islamic State

Amateur video of journalist Kenji Goto, one of two Japanese held for ransom by Islamic State, shows the reporter filming in Syria. Rough Cut...

Saudi King Abdullah dies, new ruler is Salman -State TV

Saudi King Abdullah dies, new ruler is Salman -State TV

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has died, state television reported early on Friday and his brother Salman became king. Deborah Lutterbeck repo...

Wife of Japanese hostage pleads with Islamic State

Wife of Japanese hostage pleads with Islamic State

Audio is released of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto's wife, asking Islamic State militants to spare her husband's life. Rough Cut (no reporter ...