National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says it would "chill speech" and "erode the quality of our democracy" if he serves a long prison term in the U.S.
In an election-year broadside, the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday to prohibit the United States from making cash payments to Iran and require that Congress be notified before any future claims settlements with Tehran are conducted.
Cologne authorities say they're planning to fence off a large area around the city's famous cathedral this New Year's Eve as part of stepped-up security precautions aimed at preventing a repeat of last year's attacks.
The head of the pharmaceutical company Mylan will face lawmakers' questions at a hearing next week on steep price increases for its life-saving EpiPen injector device.
A South Sudan newspaper says the government ordered its shutdown the day it published a front-page story on a U.S.-based watchdog group's investigation into corruption by top officials.
A 44-year-old man described as a transient is jailed without bond after authorities said he drove a car into two police officers outside a Phoenix gas station and then scuffled with a third officer who managed to get out of the way.
An appellate panel that ordered Missouri to reveal its supplier of lethal injection drugs is giving the state another chance to make its case to shield that information.
The European Parliament is slamming Polish government policies as anti-democratic for the second time this year and urging a lasting solution by the end of next month.