Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as several Islamic rebel factions gathered at the venue, killing 17 militants, opposition activists said Sunday.
The explosion, which took place late Saturday, was the latest blow to the rebels shortly after the assassination the previous day of a powerful rebel leader on the outskirts of Damascus. The developments could boost the position of the Damascus government...

In a rare sit-down interview with ABC News, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said he doubts mass internment would happen again in the U.S. Even though the Supreme Court has never technically overturned its 1944 decision approving the...

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump “complains about everything,” Ohio Gov.John Kasich said today on ABC’s “This Week” as he again refused to commit to supporting Trump if the real estate magnate won the party’s nomination.
“What Trump does is he complains about everything — these attacks on women, the attacks on Hillary [Clinton] not getting back to the stage on time, the attacks on Hispanics andMuslims,” Kasich said....

Multiple reports saying a “Christmas Eve asteroid” zipping past Earth tonight may destroy the planet are indeed false, NASA has announced.
The 3,600-foot-long asteroid 2003 SD220 will fly by Earth tonight at a safe distance of 6.8 million miles, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday....