It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years after it started its fight. “The terrorist group laying down its arms is a victory for civilization,” deputy State Department spokesman […]

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday extending the deadline for TikTok's parent company to divest the popular video sharing app by 90 days. The order punts the deadline for China-based ByteDance to September 17. The most recent deadline was Thursday. "I’ve just signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul at dusk Wednesday for a candlelight vigil held in remembrance of slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband, Mark. The Hortmans were gunned down at their home over the weekend by a shooter impersonating a law enforcement officer, surveillance video showed....

I have taught on a university campus for close to two decades, but only recently have I started to give some consideration to comedy as a serious source of study.

It was feisty and intermittently unpleasant — for them at least. It was madly entertaining for viewers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has endorsed Democrat Rebecca Cooke in her attempt for a rematch against Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) in a battleground Wisconsin district.  Sanders said in a statement, first reported by NBC News, that he’s supporting Cooke to represent Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District because she will “stand up for working families and...

Officials from Iran and three major European countries are expected to meet Friday in Geneva, in the latest diplomatic push amid rising tensions in the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed the meeting to Iran’s state-run news agency, IRNA. Araghchi said he plans to meet with foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany...

Members of Congress would likely have to search a long time find voters in their states who favor giving Big Tech a decade to “see where AI leads.”

A pregnant U.S. citizen who was detained by federal agents about two weeks ago has since given birth to a healthy baby girl, but now, her boyfriend is being held out of state and her problems are far from over.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to mediate an end to the Iran and Israel conflict, while President Trump expressed openness to Russian involvement, and Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a resolution in a call with Putin.