8:45 a.m. (all times are EDT): A hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the ...

In 1889, US patent #395,791 is issued to Herman Hollerith for his "Art of Compiling Statistics," a punched card calculator.

Grand juries have increasingly become a headache for prosecutors trying to advance controversial Trump policies.

President Donald Trump keeps repeating a falsehood about Osama bin Laden — perhaps in the hopes that the more he says it, the ...

President Donald Trump said that he predicted the threat of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, claiming on Sunday that the ...

The attack appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of a senior military official inside Russia’s borders. By Ivan Nechepurenko A senior Russian general was killed on Monday in Moscow after a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Five years after a Christmas Day bombing knocked out phone service across Middle Tennessee, Metro Nashville’s 911 center has implemented multiple backup systems to ensure ...

It was a Reddit poster who cracked the case of the mass shooting at Brown University, but it’s unclear whether he will get the $50,000 reward.

It was a bitterly cold night in March 1997 in a mud hut high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and we were surrounded by well-armed al-Qaeda fighters. Peter Arnett asked their leader a simple ...

It was bin Laden’s first TV interview, and he and his team had chosen Arnett and CNN to conduct it, an interview I produced. I first got to know Arnett, who died on Wednesday, in 1993. He was then one ...

China turns Hainan province into duty-free customs zone Belgium-sized island is part of Beijing's free-trade push Officials hope to build new Hong Kong-style commercial hub Trade diplomats doubt pilot ...