WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told lawmakers Tuesday that he will send up to 1,200 National Guardsmen to the U.S.-Mexico border to help provide security as drug war violence continues to escalate.
The deployment is part of a $500 million effort to secure the Southwest border and help target criminal enterprises trafficking in...
The commander of US forces in the Pacific has warned that China’s military is more aggressively asserting its territorial claims in regional waters.
Admiral Robert Willard told the Financial Times: “There has been an assertiveness that has been growing over time, particularly in the South China Sea and in the East China Sea.”
updated 8:08 p.m. MT, Mon., May 24, 2010
LAKEVILLE, Minn. - Rescue crews were using fire hoses to douse an angry swarm of bees after a fatal crash that involved a semitrailer carrying about 17 million of the insects.
Authorities say a truck hauling 7,000 bee hives was involved in the four-vehicle crash Monday on Interstate 35 near Lakeville,...
South Korea accuses North of torpedo attack that sank South Korean ship
(CNN) -- Mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula reached a new level Tuesday as a North Korean agency announced that the communist nation is severing all ties with its neighbor to the south and will "abrogate the agreement on non-aggression."
Authorities fear at least 12 women may have been deliberately infected with the HIV virus by a Zimbabwe-born circus acrobat.
Australian citizen Godfrey Zaburoni, 31, appeared in a Sydney court today for an extradition hearing and is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow.
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young...
