Rand Paul, the Republican presidential candidate and U.S. senator from Kentucky, said he doesn’t actually believe gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers should be fired for being who they are. But that’s not quite what he told students earlier this week, in comments that drew swift backlash from conservative and liberal members of the LGBT community.
Marijuana advocates in New Jersey are planning a gathering in front of the statehouse Saturday to demand that marijuana be legalized in the Garden State. The rally, scheduled for 3 p.m., is the third organized in the Trenton so far this year.
Hopes that the world’s tallest roller coaster would come to Orange County, Florida, hit a snag Thursday. The county planning and zoning commission denied a request to build a 500-foot roller coaster, WKMG-TV in Orlando reported.
The U.S. and Russia are establishing rules for their pilots flying over Syria to avoid military confrontation. The rules, which the Pentagon said are still being worked out, could include coordinating the use of Syrian airspace. But that kind of intelligence sharing, said rebels fighting the Islamic State group and President Bashar Assad’s regime in Aleppo, would give Russia the information it needs to more easily track and target them with airstrikes.
As if you weren't already eating enough carbs, Saturday is National Pasta Day. Created to celebrate noodles in all their glorious forms, the observance is the perfect chance to feast on fusilli or slurp some spaghetti.
United States President Barack Obama said Friday that the country's alliance with South Korea was "stronger than it's ever been" and unaffected by the republic's close ties with China. Speaking at a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama denied any "cracks" in the partnership between the two nations and expressed his hopes that China would join them in pressuring North Korea to denuclearize.
The end may be near for Republicans if they do not take back the White House next year, says the head of the Republican National Committee. Reince Priebus said Friday in an interview with the Washington Examiner that the Republican Party will be “cooked” if it fails to elect a conservative president in 2016.
Want to know what everyone's wearing this Halloween? Still trying to work out what your own getup will be? Either way, try drawing inspiration from the Internet's most-searched costumes ahead of the big day.
Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE:UAL) fell 3 percent Friday after CEO Oscar Munoz suffered a heart attack a day earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The 56-year-old executive is being treated at a Chicago hospital.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has apparently reversed its recent decision to take roast pork off the menu at national prison facilities. After some backlash, the bureau now says it will keep the item on the menu for inmates, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Recruiters for the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, apparently earn thousands of dollars if they can convert their peers to jihadis. ISIS pays its supporters up to $10,000 for each person they recruit to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria, U.N. experts told reporters Friday.
Major oil and gas companies and coal mining giants this week expressed support for the global effort to confront climate change. But that doesn’t mean the energy firms will be keeping their fossil fuels in the ground to avoid harmful emissions. The public statements and CEO-signed letters largely reflect the companies’ interests in ramping up natural gas investments and smoothing competition among coal exporters, analysts say.
Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter appeared on “The View” Friday, where she talked about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and took on "The View" co-host Raven-Symoné, who has recently come under fire for saying she discriminates against people with “black”-sounding names. Coulter, who is no stranger to controversy herself, did not pass up the chance to defend herself and insult Raven-Symoné.
GroupMe, a widely used group-messaging mobile app acquired by Microsoft several years ago, is in the spotlight following a report that upscale shops in Washington, D.C., are using it to racially profile African-American shoppers. The vast majority of messages sent among shopkeepers in Washington’s posh Georgetown district are about black customers, CBS News reported this week.
The U.S. military will carry out surveillance and intelligence missions against Boko Haram inside Nigeria as part of its deployment to West Africa, sources familiar with the plan told Agence France-Presse Friday. "This is going to be part of our Boko Haram efforts that will be operating throughout the region," one of the sources apparently said on condition of anonymity. "It's surveillance and intelligence gathering, not anything offensive."
Russia may fire missiles at Islamic State group militants in Syria from ships in the Mediterranean Sea, a senior officer told a Moscow newspaper Friday. Russia already has launched cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea, over Iran and Iraq, in its fight against ISIS. When asked if it would use similar attacks from the Mediterranean if necessary, Col.-Gen. Andrei Kartapolov told Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Without doubt."
FanDuel and DraftKings built billion-dollar empires by offering fans a way to wager on their favorite athletes with just a few key presses and mouse clicks. But as the state of Nevada begins to classify daily fantasy sports alongside other, more traditional forms of gambling, the unregulated industry’s freewheeling days are coming to an end.
After a long week where at times it looked as though he wouldn't pull through, Lamar Odom has reportedly opened his eyes. Although the former NBA star remains hospitalized in Las Vegas, he is said to have emerged from his comatose state.
Steve Ballmer has been keeping busy over a year since he stepped down from Microsoft’s board of directors. One hand is occupied with owning the Los Angeles Clippers, the other -- a 4 percent stake in Twitter. And there was no better a place for him to reveal that latter fact but on the social network itself.
U.S. stocks closed higher Friday after fluctuating during afternoon trading as investors weighed a series of mixed data and earnings reports, pointing to expectations the Federal Reserve will delay a rate hike this year. The likelihood of the Fed hiking borrowing costs before the end of 2015 diminished again this week after two top Fed officials came out strongly in favor of delaying a rate hike until next year, while mixed retail sales and inflation data triggered sizable downgrades to estimates of third-quarter gross domestic product growth.
Netflix is coming to a theater near you Friday with the release of the heady thriller “Beasts of No Nation,” starring Idris Elba, but major theater chains are closing their doors in protest. AMC, Regal, Cinemark and Carmike have followed through on threats not to screen the movie because Netflix plans to both stream it online and show it in 31 smaller theaters across the country.
LONDON -- "I need your clothes, boots and your motorcycle." When the T-1000 uttered this iconic line in "Terminator 2," not many people would have predicted that just over a decade later, a Skynet-like artificial intelligence system would be helping them pick out their next pair of shoes. But that is just what's happening today, with one of the world's most powerful AI networks teaming up with Shoes.com to help you pick the perfect pair of pumps.
A high court in France has officially recognized a third gender option in a case that’s being described in the country as a crucial victory for intersex rights. The intersex individual, who was born with both male and female genitalia, has won the right to register as gender neutral.
During the first full year of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, spending for Medicaid soared because of increased enrollment. Across the country during the 2015 fiscal year, spending on the federal government's social health care program for low-income people and families increased on average of 13.9 percent, according to a report released Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy non-profit located in California.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump seems to be hoping not only to “Make America Great Again,” but also to Make Trucker Hats Great Again. The Trump presidential campaign spent far more money on his signature embroidered hats and campaign T-shirts during the third quarter than it did on anything else except airfare -- but Trump is not alone in large expenditures.