Scientist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 in the early hours of Wednesday, said a spokesman for his family. His family later released a statement confirming his death at his home in Cambridge. "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a...

A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and...

NEW YORK (reuters)- A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 45 years in prison Tuesday for supporting the militant group Al-Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, less than the life sentence sought by prosecutors. Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh,...

In 1978, Najla Ali got married to Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi, who later became Egypt’s first freely elected president.   After marriage, Najla travelled with her husband to the U.S., where Morsi went to complete a PhD in material science at the University of Southern...