By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row early on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia […]

The latest batch of emails from the private server Hillary Clinton used as U.S. secretary of state is due to be released on Wednesday, days after she lamented that months of unflattering headlines about the setup were largely out of her control. A federal judge has ordered the State Department to release all of Clinton's […]

LOS ANGELES/VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis secretly met a Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and gave her words of encouragement, her attorney said. Mat Staver, attorney and founder of the Liberty Counsel, told CBS News on Tuesday night that the pope met Rowan County […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a potential major shift in policy, U.S. military commanders want to keep at least a few thousand American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, citing a fragile security situation highlighted by the Taliban's capture of the northern city of Kunduz this week as well as recent militant inroads in the south.

World trade will grow by 2.8 percent this year and could be pegged back further by a U.S. interest rate rise, China’s economic slowdown or Europe’s refugee crisis, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday. The WTO’s forecast implies growth will quicken this year, from 2.5 percent growth in 2014. “These include a sharper-than-expected slowdown […]

Apple Music may have priced its China launch Wednesday at a steep discount to what it charges in the U.S., but the music streaming service may be a tough sell.

30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE THREATENED! CHAOS AND NATURAL DISASTERS ARE COMING UPON THE EARTH! A NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW WILL BE THE MARK OF THE BEAST! These shocking statements may have startled …

"Luther, Spurgeon, Wesley all would call the pope antichrist, not the Antichrist, but antichrist, as in pushing away from the gospel,” Stetzer says. “And to go in just a few centuries from the pope being seen as antichrist to being a brother in Christ …

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Moscow informed Israel on Wednesday( Sept 30) that it was about to launch air strikes in Syria before the attacks, the first by Russian warplanes in the years-old conflict, an Israeli official told AFP. Russian warplanes struck in two …

Defense minister underlines that Israel will not coordinate activities such as retaliating to Syrian cross-border fire with Moscow. An IDF soldier stands atop a tank near Alonei Habashan on the Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel …