Washington - Airlines canceled more than 6,600 flights this weekend as the blizzard hitting the East Coast brings major cities to a standstill. The bulk of Saturday's 4,440 cancelations are at airports in the New York City and Washington metro areas, according…

Washington - Four of America's wealthiest businessmen laid the foundation for Ted Cruz's now-surging Republican presidential campaign and have redefined the role of political donors. With just over a week until voters get their first say, the 45-year-old…

Washington - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz apologized to Ben Carson on Tuesday over an email his campaign sent on Monday night that implied Carson was about to drop out of the race and that his Iowa backers should be urged to vote for Cruz…

Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to set the record straight on Donald Trump: "We were not friends." "We knew each other, obviously, in New York," Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York, said in excerpts of a People…

Washington - The United States has recently rejected 30 Syrians out of thousands seeking to enter the country, Obama administration officials told a congressional panel on Wednesday, as the United States tightens vetting of immigrants and other visitors following…

President Barack Obama will ask the U.S. Congress for more than $450 million in aid to help Colombia implement a peace accord aimed at ending Latin America's longest war, which has killed thousands of people and displaced millions, the White House said on…

Washington - Islamic State has as many as 25,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq, down from a previous estimate of up to 31,000, according to a U.S. intelligence report revealed by the White House on Thursday. U.S. officials cited factors such as battlefield casualties…

Washington - The Pentagon on Friday released nearly 200 photographs of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, taken mostly between 2004 and 2006, involving 56 cases of alleged abuse by U.S. forces. The often dark, blurry and grainy pictures are mainly of detainees'…

Washington - Israel may be unable to reach a new defense aid agreement with the Obama administration and could wait for the next U.S. president to secure better terms, a senior Israeli official said on Monday in a veiled rebuke signaling a snag in negotiations.…

Washington - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesdays that it had filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri, to enforce a police and court reform plan after the city said it wanted to amend some aspects of a consent decree it reached with…

WASHINGTON: Iranian TV released new images of US Navy sailors detained last month, including one in tears. PHOTOS

A dozen police officers shot at and killed a homicide suspect during a gun battle along Interstate 5 in Washington state Saturday morning, authorities said. The man, in his 40s, had killed his girlfriend as she worked at a nursing facility in University Place…

A gunman opened fire on Sunday on a Prince George's County police station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, killing one officer in what authorities called an unprovoked attack, before the assailant and a second suspect were arrested.