The World Health Organizations says laboratory tests completed after a shocking fish die-off in Iraq's Euphrates River show the water is contaminated with high levels of bacteria, heavy metals, and ammonia. Fishermen were stunned to find that hundreds of tons of carp had died suddenly...

Israeli forces have detained over 900 Palestinian children since the beginning of this year, according to a local NGO on Tuesday.   “A total of 270 children are still held in Israeli prisons,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement, which was released on the...

Three people, including a police officer, were killed Monday in a shooting at a hospital in Chicago, said police. The gunman – identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, the former fiancée of one of the victims -- was among the dead in the attack at Mercy Hospital. Earlier,...

Democrats in the House of Representatives are attempting to change a 181-year-old rule banning the wearing of hats in the chamber in order to accommodate one of the first Muslims elected to Congress, who wears a headscarf. The leader of the House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, along with...