The months-long battle over tax incentives between Maryland officials and "House of Cards" executives ended Friday when they announced a deal had been struck, meaning the show would continue filming in Maryland.
A male classmate stabbed a teenage girl to death at their high school in Connecticut on Friday; police suspect she turned down his invitation to take her to prom.
The extremely cold weather this winter that brought record below freezing temperatures to the East Coast and much of the Midwest exposed a major concern in the nation's electricity grid.
The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of thousands of employees Two of the most valuable and famous companies in the world, Apple and Google, have been slapped with a class action suit filed in 2011 by tech workers.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the new Palestinian unity government — which includes unification with the terrorist group Hamas — will recognize Israel's right to exist.
U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm has been indicted for alleged campaign finance fraud. U. S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N. Y. ) is facing criminal charges from federal prosecutors, according to Grimm's lawyer.
Five service members were killed when a U.K. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan Saturday. Five NATO service members were killed when a U. K. helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan Saturday.
Since 2008, the Peruvian government has been battling illegal miners. Amidst the wilderness of the Amazon jungle, explosives ravage the land, illegal prostitution oppresses the local population and disease spreads unmonitored.
In 2012, the Peruvian government passed legislation to curb the illegal gold mining rampant in its Amazonian departments. However, it did not fully enforce them until now. A deadline, which expired on April 25, allowed for illegal miners to register with the government. According to the AP, the government of President Ollanta Humala has vowed to enforce this latest deadline and will move against the remaining illegal miners.
Venezuela looks for support in its left-wing allies in South America. Although protests in Venezuela continue, the Maduro government has not budged to the opposition's demands.
Net Mundial, a global internet governance conference being held this week in Brazil ended on Thursday with little concrete progress to show. Nevertheless optimistic participants representing a wide range of interests celebrated the constructive conversations that took place during the two-day event, which coincided with Brazil signing its groundbreaking "Internet Bill of Rights" into law.
The Federal Communications Commission will release a proposal soon to reinstate its Open Internet rules in a new form, after a federal court struck down the current incarnation of the FCC's net neutrality-friendly rules. But the new rules may not not enshrine certain net neutrality principals, leading tech watchers and advocacy groups, including the National Hispanic Media Coalition, to preemptively condemn the changes.
A 16-year-old student was stabbed to death Friday morning inside of a Connecticut high school, just hours before she planned to attend her school prom. Officials are now investigating whether the attacker killed the teenager after she rejected his request to be her prom date.
Others claim the age of free internet is over On Thursday, Tom Wheeler, the Chairman of the FCC, tried to explain the new net neutrality ruling in anticipation of the voting that will take place on May 15.
Kennesaw State University is on lockdown, and the details are slowly trickling in. Kennesaw State, which is known as the third largest university in Georgia, is on lockdown, according to officials.
During a speech event in John Boehner's Ohio hometown on Thursday, the House Speaker reportedly mocked his fellow GOP Congress members for the gridlock that has stalled immigration reform.
