Bernard Jordan was nicknamed the Great Escaper after absconding from his carers, catching a a ferry to France and turning up in Normandy for the 70th anniversary events for D-Day.

Mohammed Emwazi grew up in Ladbroke Grove, an area that has become a breeding ground for Islamic militants, and attended the University of Westminster, where extremists have been invited to speak.

Dozens of states are set to be hit by another Arctic blast over the weekend with meteorologists predicting almost everywhere east of the Rockies will be up 30 degrees below average.

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives were planning to pursue on Friday a temporary funding bill to keep the lights on at the U.S. domestic security agency for three weeks, postponing the threat of a partial agency shutdown. As the clock ticked toward a midnight Friday […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — On the outside, the metal box looks like an oversized bread container. But what's inside could save an abandoned newborn's life.

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled the trial for the accused Boston Marathon bomber can go ahead in the city, over attempts from his attorneys to change the venue on the basis an impartial jury could not be seated so close to the site of the 2013 attack. The split three-judge panel […]

A man armed with a handgun went on a house-to-house shooting spree in a rural Missouri town, killing seven relatives and neighbors before taking his own life, officials said on Friday. All of those killed by the gunman, identified as Joseph Aldridge, 36, lived within a few miles of each other in the tiny community […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a one-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security late on Friday, in time to avert a partial shutdown for the agency at midnight. The two-thirds majority vote, which came with support from Democrats a few hours after the House failed to pass a three-week […]

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn’s publicly traded investment fund posted its first annual loss since 2008 last year, undone by plummeting oil prices, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday. Results were hurt by a halving of oil prices between June and December amid a global supply glut. “This year’s results were obviously […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Sikorsky Helicopter a contract worth $2 billion to service the Navy’s H-60 helicopters through Jan. 31, 2020, the Pentagon announced …