For many Americans, my daughter, Brittany Maynard, was the face of the right-to-die movement. Diagnosed in early 2014 with terminal brain cancer, she chose to move from California to Oregon to take advantage of that state's Death with Dignity Law. It was there that she ended her life two years ago this November.
The "Rasputin"- like woman at the center of the scandal rocking the South Korean presidency has returned home and faced questions from prosecutors Monday.
A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in 36 years.
The reports are disturbing: Tens of thousands of men, women and children snatched from their homes and forced into the center of Mosul as the battle intensifies to drive ISIS out of Iraq's second-largest city.
The US government has ordered all civilian family members of its Istanbul consulate staff to leave Turkey because of increasing threats from terrorist organizations, according to a travel warning issued Saturday by the US State Department.
At least 21 people have been killed since Friday in tit-for-tat clashes between Syrian regime forces and rebels in the besieged city of Aleppo, the UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.
Through the haze and smoke, the brown and gray outline of Gogjali is just about visible. It's an industrial suburb on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, just two kilometers (1.24 miles) from front line positions of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Force (CTF), and it's their next target.
As Diwali, the festival of lights, approaches, Hindu and other faith leaders have come together to advocate the benefits of solar power, writes Gopal Patel
With the recent revelations of how former President Bill Clinton mingled fundraising for the nonprofit Clinton Foundation with lucrative commercial opportunities for himself, Hillary Clinton and her campaign surrender any right to complain about alleged corner-cutting and murky dealings by the family foundation run by her opponent, Donald Trump.
A little over 130 million years ago, a plant-eating dinosaur was roaming the present-day area of Sussex, England, when -- trapped by the muds of a thick swamp -- it fell backward to his death and was forgotten.