DALLAS The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. has been confirmed in a man who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas, sending chills through the area’s West African community whose leaders urged caution to prevent spreading the virus. The unidentified man was critically ill and has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian […]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama’s escalating military campaign in Iraq and Syria has drowned out the economic pitch he hoped would help salvage a midterm election that has been favoring Republicans. But the airstrikes against Islamic State extremists have also introduced a new complicating factor into the fall campaign, forcing both sides to reassess their closing […]

WASHINGTON The Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen, according to current and former U.S. officials. The U.S. military says its airstrikes have been discriminating […]

HONG KONG Student leaders of prodemocracy protests in Hong Kong warned today that if the territory’s leader doesn’t resign by the end of Thursday they will step up their actions, including occupying several important government buildings. By raising the stakes in the standoff, the protest leaders are risking another round of confrontation with the police […]

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Taliban suicide bombers struck two buses carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabul early today, killing seven people and wounding 21, just a day after the signing of a key U.S.-Afghan security pact. Today’s attacks involved two suicide bombers targeting buses carrying Afghan troops in the country’s capital. The first attacker hit a bus with […]

BERLIN The Simon Wiesenthal Center has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation, The Associated Press has learned. The Wiesenthal Center’s top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told the AP today that in September he sent the German justice […]

OTAKI, Japan A dozen more bodies were found today near the ashcovered summit of a Japanese volcano as searches resumed amid concern of toxic gasses and another eruption. The death toll from last Saturday’s surprise eruption at Mount Ontake stands at 48 after today’s additions, Nagano prefectural police said. Prefectural and police officials said most […]