World leaders arrived in Paris on Sunday for potentially historic climate talks that will play out amid security concerns driven by the November 13 terror attacks in France. Frustrations over restrictions on protests put in place following the attacks gave rise to what French President Francois Hollande called “scandalous” scuffles between protesters and police at the Place de Republique, the ...

Source: Suspect spoke of ‘baby parts’ after Planned Parenthood shooting What moved a man to kill three people and wound nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has not been disclosed. But the suspect accused of carrying out the shooting spree, Robert Lewis Dear, made remarks about “baby parts” to investigators after his surrender, a law enforcement official ...

Pope Francis waded into the heart of a Kenyan shantytown Friday, spreading a message of acceptance and lashing out at the nation’s elite for neglecting the poor. Francis’ visit to Kangemi aligned with his message of service to the poor during his three days in Nairobi. In the sprawling slum filled with tin-roofed homes, he described injustices against the less ...

The 13-year-old Internet phenom who gained national attention criticizing President Barack Obama and briefly was a part of the Ted Cruz campaign is renouncing conservatism, saying he’s looking to be a voice unbound by party ideology. CJ Pearson told reporter on Friday that concerns about the Republican Party’s viewpoints on racial and gender disparity as well as youth issues convinced ...

Who will you blame once Obama’s gone? The scene opens with a pudgy white man plopped on a couch, watching TV with a bowl of Cheetos on the coffee table. As he reaches for the remote, disaster strikes. He knocks over the bowl, and his Cheetos spill on the floor. The man throws his head back in operatic despair and ...

The US has issued a worldwide travel alert for its citizens in response to “increased terrorist threats”. The state department said “current information” suggested the Islamic State group, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and others continued “to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions”. The alert, it said, will remain in place until 24 February 2016. France, Russia, Mali and several other countries ...

Belgian police arrested 16 people Sunday night and five more people on Monday morning in a string of raids aimed at capturing an Islamist militant suspected of a key role in the Paris attacks. Prosecutors said they have charged a man with participating in the attacks in an ongoing investigation in Brussels, which is currently on maximum security alert. He is ...

U.S. President Barack Obama toughened his rhetoric against ISIS at a weekend press conference in Malaysia that concluded his nine-day trip abroad. The group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is “a bunch of killers with good social media,” he said. “They are dangerous and they’ve caused great hardship to … an overwhelming majority of people.” FBI director: We can’t ...

A hostage siege at a hotel in Bamako, Mali’s capital, has again drawn international attention to the West African nation, nearly three years after France launched a military campaign against Islamic extremists in the country’s north. The campaign, Operation Serval, was widely considered a success in driving jihadists from Mali’s northern towns. What has happened since then to have led ...

Salah Abdeslam — the only one of the suspected Paris attackers known to have survived — is still at large and still very much at the center of a mystery. Nine days after the terror attacks that killed 130 people, a clearer picture is emerging of his movements — and it seems Abdeslam fled the city late on the night ...