Two strong earthquakes jolted northern Japan on Tuesday, with the first one placed at 6.9 magnitude causing a small tsunami that did not cause any damages but nevertheless triggered evacuation warnings in towns along the coast.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner blamed Democrats for the impending shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, saying they're "standing in the way" of the funding bill that is hanging in the Senate.
Egypt unleashed its fury on Islamic State militants, sending its warplanes to bomb ISIS targets inside Libya on Monday, a day after the terrorist group released a video showed the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians there.
Danish police on Sunday shot and killed a man suspected of killing two people and wounding five police officers in a cafe and synagogue in Copenhagen in attacks reminiscent of the ones staged in Paris last month, including the attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, authorities said.
An unemployed mother who came forward to say that she's one of the three winners of North Carolina's $564-million Powerball jackpot is sharing her blessing by donating money to her church.
Esteemed New York Times columnist David Carr, who died unexpectedly on Thursday night, had lung cancer, and died of complications from the disease, the results of an autopsy released Saturday evening showed.
Amanda Knox – the former U.S. student who caught the world's attention when she was convicted in Italy over the murder of her British roommate in 2007, imprisoned for four years, acquitted, and then convicted again by a higher court in Italy in January 2014 – is set to get married to a musician.
Immigration activists reportedly held protest rallies in the Capitol Hill offices of 35 "hard-line" Republican lawmakers on Thursday, blasting them for their "ceaseless attacks on hardworking immigrant families."
A civil rights group has apologized to book author and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson – a popular public figure rumored to be gunning for a Republican presidential nomination – after it denounced him for his "extremist" views on marriage and American politics.
House Speaker John Boehner told Senate Democrats to "go off their ass" and vote for the Department of Homeland Security funding bill that withholds budget to President Obama's immigration reforms.
A 46-year-old man was charged with first degree murder for shooting to death three Muslim American students in Chapel Hill town in North Carolina on Tuesday.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.