Ken Stanford

North Korea's Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage.

Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts.

Islamic State extremists released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British

Texas asked a federal appeals court Friday to allow the state to immediately enforce a law requiring all abortion clinics to adhere to costly standards required for walk-in surgical clinics, which would close more than half of the state's abortion facilities.

The Marine Corps League Upper Chattahoochee Detachment 665 has established the Gunnery Sgt. Francis "Frank" E. Cornell Scholarship Fund, an annual scholarship, with the University of North Georgia Foundation Inc.

President Barack Obama is distinguishing the military campaign against Islamic State militants from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While the Islamic State group is getting the most attention now, another band of extremists in Syria - a mix of hardened jihadis from Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Europe - poses a more direct and imminent threat to the United States, working with Yemeni bomb-makers to target U.S. aviation, American officials say.

Americus residents would be able to send letters to their city council members but not speak at meetings under a proposal being considered.