Washington-Americans are descending on polling stations in droves Tuesday for this year’s midterm elections. Most voting locations began opening between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. local time on the East Coast (1100GMT and 1200GMT), with polling stations in the central and western U.S. set to open around the same times in their time zones. Vermont,

The sons of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi delivered an emotional appeal on Sunday asking for the return of their father’s body in an interview with CNN. In their first interview since their father was murdered, Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi said that the past few weeks have been painful for them as they continue to wait

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned Sunday that Turkey will not allow oil and gas extraction in eastern Mediterranean through plans excluding the nation and the Turkish Republic off Northern Cyprus (TRNC). “We will not accept attempts to seize natural resources in eastern Mediterranean through exclusion of Turkey and the TRNC,” Erdoğan said at a ceremony

The order to kill Jamal Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Friday in an opinion piece in The Washington Post detailing Turkey’s stance on the killing of the journalist in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. “Saudi Arabia still has many questions to answer about Jamal Khashoggi’s

South African researchers say they have made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria, which could one day help reduce global warming emissions by finding a productive use for the ultimate waste product. The grey bricks are produced in a lab over eight days using urine, calcium, sand and bacteria.

At least seven Coptic Christians were killed Friday in a shooting attack by unknown assailants in Egypt’s central Minya province, local officials have said. Egyptian media outlets quoted Minya Governor Qassem Hussein as saying that at least seven people were killed — and another 13 injured — in an attack on a bus carrying Christian

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey lent her star power on Thursday to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is vying to become the first female black governor in the United States, while saying she has no political aspirations of her own. “I am here today because Stacey Abrams cares about the things that matter,” Winfrey told a

Washington-The remains of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi should be located and returned to his family for burial as soon as possible, the U.S. said Thursday. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told reporters Washington will “hold accountable not only those who executed the murder, but also those who led, were involved and were connected

Two Florida high school students were so furious to find out their science teacher was sleeping with both of them that they told the man’s wife he was having the affairs, district officials said. Both teens are now former students at Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, where they told police they had sex with

JAKARTA — Indonesia has protested to Saudi Arabia over the execution of an Indonesian maid, convicted of murdering her employer who a workers’ rights group said was trying to rape her at the time. President Joko Widodo said he called Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, to lodge a protest and demand to know why