WASHINGTON House Republicans are on track to easily pass legislation to authorize the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, moving the GOP-led Congress closer to a clash with President Barack Obama. Today’s vote will be the 10th time since July 2011 that the House has voted on legislation advancing the pipeline, and the outcome […]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama wants publicly funded community college available to all Americans, a sweeping proposal he argues would strengthen the U.S. workforce. The initiative’s price tag has yet to be revealed, and it faces a spendingaverse Republican Congress. The White House said Obama wants to make higher education as free and universal as high […]

DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France Two brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris today, taking a hostage and telling police they “want to die as martyrs,” a lawmaker said. Security forces streamed into the small industrial town near Charles de Gaulle airport in a massive operation to seize the […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka In a result that was unthinkable just weeks ago, former Cabinet minister Maithripala Sirisena won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, humbling his onetime ally and longtime president who paid the price for blatantly amassing power while failing to address the country’s economic troubles. Sirisena, who defected from the ruling party in a surprise […]