A new U.S. political survey shows Donald Trump is increasing his lead in the crowded race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Thursday’s Quinnipiac University poll showed the brash billionaire real estate mogul with 28 percent support among Republican voters across the country. He topped his nearest challenger — former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who was […]
Photos posted online by Islamic State on Tuesday claim to show the destruction of a 2,000-year-old temple at the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra earlier this week. In the series of images, several men carry barrels into the Roman-era Baal Shamin temple, lining the base and placing the containers connected by blue wire on […]
French President Francois Hollande on Monday will bestow France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honor, on three Americans and a Briton who subdued a heavily armed gunman aboard a high-speed train on Friday. The ceremony set for Monday morning in Paris also will include a French citizen who first discovered the gunman near a restroom […]
Rescue teams were poised to hike through rugged terrain Tuesday toward the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner with 54 people aboard that crashed into a mountain Sunday. A search plane spotted the debris from the crash of Trigana Air Flight 267 in the eastern province of Papua early Monday. The ATR 42-300 twin turboprop disappeared […]