Critics, schmitics. They were basically won over earlier this week. The real Force to reckon with as the new Star Wars movie hit theaters Thursday night was the franchise's legions of devoted, past-disappointed fans.
The Democratic National Committee has told the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont that it was suspending its access to its voter database after a software error enabled at least one of his staff members to review Hillary Clinton's private ...
Delegates from across Europe and the Middle East will participate in meetings Friday on ending Syria's civil war. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will lead a U.N.
CLEVELAND -- LeBron James tumbled into the wife of star PGA Tour golfer Jason Day while chasing a loose ball Thursday night, causing her to be taken from the floor by stretcher and to a local hospital.
A Beijing environmental official said the city will look to improve its smog warning system to avoid disrupting the lives of its 20 million people, while acknowledging that pollution -- and the red alerts that mandate traffic restrictions and school ...
David Cameron was left searching for a face-saving plan B in his attempt to restrict immigration to the UK, after EU leaders rejected a flagship element of his drive to reform Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe.
BEIJING China's military carried out war games in the disputed South China Sea this week, with warships, submarines and fighter jets simulating cruise missile strikes on ships, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said on Friday.
UNITED NATIONS The United Nations and its agencies grossly mishandled allegations of child sexual abuse by international peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, an independent review panel said in a report released on Thursday.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A judge in Alaska approved terms of a settlement Thursday that throws out the longstanding convictions of four indigenous men in the 1997 beating death of a teenager in Fairbanks.
WASHINGTON - President Obama, seeking to counter pressure for a military escalation in response to terrorist attacks, told a group of news columnists this week that sending significant ground forces back to the Middle East could conceivably result in ...
A Virginia school district closed all of its schools and offices after an outcry over a high school geography lesson that included an example of Arabic religious calligraphy.
(CNN) A Texas sheriff says he has a message for a teenager who's now missing two years after getting probation for a drunken driving crash that killed four people, and for the mother who may be with him.
TOKYO The Bank of Japan maintained its money printing drive at the current rate on Friday, but reorganized its massive stimulus program to advance premier Shinzo Abe's plans to prod reticent companies into boosting wages and investment.
All 10 major Asian currencies are forecast by strategists to fall against the dollar for a third year. They blame China. Indonesia's rupiah, South Korea's won and the Singapore dollar are projected to decline the most in 2016, with India's rupee seen ...
WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week fell from a five-month high, suggesting sustained labor market healing that could lead to further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes next year.
Apple Inc., AAPL -2.12 % facing renewed questions about its growth prospects, fortified its senior ranks by naming a chief operating officer and realigning several other posts.
RIO DE JANEIRO: WhatsApp is back online in Brazil. A Brazilian judge struck down a lower court ruling that temporarily ordered telecoms to block the popular messaging service, snarling communications for many of its 100 million users in Brazil for ...
California's proposal to make driverless cars have someone at the wheel are "perplexing" and could hamper the progress of the technology, Google said on Thursday.
As rumored (and inevitably), Apple Pay is coming to China. The company has partnered-up with Chinese bankcard network UnionPay to launch its payment system.
The groundbreaking Los Angeles rap act N.W.A. will join a quartet of 1970s-era FM radio rockers - Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller - as 2016 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
It's Kim Kardashian! Not that we haven't seen a zillion pictures of her since she gave birth to son Saint on Dec. 5, but they were all just throwbacks!
Rockets guard James Harden (13) is fouled by Lakers center Roy Hibbert during the first half Thursday night. Rockets guard James Harden (13) is fouled by Lakers center Roy Hibbert during the first half Thursday night.
There was plenty of ugly on both sides of the ball for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night, as they dropped to 6-8 on the season with a 31-23 road loss at the hands of the St. Louis Rams.
SEATTLE -- The Seattle Mariners have re-signed right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma after an agreement between Iwakuma and the Los Angeles Dodgers was never finalized.
(CNN) With Stars Wars fever raging across the Internet over the release of the latest installment in the movie franchise, one organization was making sure it didn't miss out on the buzz.
Teachers attend a workshop to learn tips for teaching evolution. A new study uses the evolutionary principles to show that laws ostensibly aimed at improving science education are firmly rooted in efforts to make classrooms safe for creationism ...
A new version of a screening test for ovarian cancer may reduce deaths from the disease, but it needs more study to determine whether the benefits hold up, researchers reported Thursday.
An effective vaccine to protect against the Mers virus is a step closer, a report in the journal Science suggests. European scientists genetically modified a version of the smallpox vaccine to display Mers virus protein on its surface.
Till now, surgery has only been treated as the 'gold standard' for treating patients with appendix because undergoing surgery eliminates the total chance that appendicitis will come back.
