The decision came quickly and decisively from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver -- a lifetime ban for Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Former and current NBA players were almost as quick in their praise for Silver, who became the league's commissioner just ...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver urged Clippers sponsors to return to backing the team after the league fined owner Donald Sterling $2.5 million and banned him from associating with either the Clippers or the NBA for life. “Those marketing partners of the ...

Apple rolled out slightly upgraded versions of its MacBook Air laptops Tuesday while cutting the price of each version by $100. At the same time, more rumors of its upcoming iPhone surfaced saying the device may be even thinner than the current model.

Clippers Coach Doc Rivers would probably rather be focusing on how to defeat the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of their playoff series Tuesday night, but instead, he has had a few other things to deal with, thanks to the controversial comments allegedly ...

MANILA — President Obama on Monday announced the U.S. would impose a new round of sanctions on individuals and companies in Russia in an effort to get President Vladimir Putin to “walk the walk and not just talk the talk” of deescalating the crisis in ...

Reporting From Vatican City —. Pope Francis proclaimed sainthood Sunday for a pair of former pontiffs, John Paul II and John XXIII, thrilling multitudes who gathered in St. Peter's Square and nearby to witness the unprecedented double canonization.

JERUSALEM -- At a time when the Middle East peace process appears stymied, Israel received an unexpected olive branch when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the Holocaust and expressed sympathy with its victims.

CAIRO -- The only candidate running for president against Egypt's former military chief, Abdel Fattah Sisi, has reportedly said that if elected he would put Sisi on trial in connection with the deaths of hundreds of protesters. "I don't treat Sisi as a criminal, but I ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Seeking to calm critics of his reconciliation efforts with the militant Hamas group, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday the unity government he plans to head will renounce violence and recognize Israel.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Seeking to calm critics of his reconciliation efforts with the militant Hamas group, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday the unity government he plans to head will renounce violence and recognize Israel.

Separatist gunmen occupying the volatile eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk detained a 13-member team of military analysts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Friday in defiance of international agreements signed by Russia and ...

Separatist gunmen occupying the volatile eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk detained a 13-member team of military analysts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Friday in defiance of international agreements signed by Russia and ...

Separatist gunmen occupying the volatile eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk detained a 13-member team of military analysts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Friday in defiance of international agreements signed by Russia and ...

Just go home, climbers. The adventure of scaling Mt. Everest is not as important as the concerns of the Sherpa guides who lost 13 of their own — three more are missing and presumed dead — in an avalanche. The guides are saying that they do not want to ...

Four days after the deadliest avalanche in Mt. Everest's history took the lives of 13 Sherpa mountaineers (with three others presumed dead under the ice), most of the Nepalese guides and porters say they will abandon the mountain in honor of the fallen.

Four days after the deadliest avalanche in Mt. Everest's history took the lives of 13 Sherpa mountaineers (with three others presumed dead under the ice), most of the Nepalese guides and porters say they will abandon the mountain in honor of the fallen.

Is asteroid impact a real threat to humanity? Watch this video and decide for yourself. What you see above is a visualization of 26 powerful explosions in the Earth's atmosphere that have occurred since the year 2000 -- each the result of a space rock ...

Is asteroid impact a real threat to humanity? Watch this video and decide for yourself. What you see above is a visualization of 26 powerful explosions in the Earth's atmosphere that have occurred since the year 2000 -- each the result of a space rock ...

Netflix has emerged as one of the biggest foes of Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Despite a recent agreement in which the digital programmer agreed to pay the cable and broadband giant for a direct connection to its 20 million ...

They came with iPhones, iPads, digital cameras and even some film cameras — ready to capture the total lunar eclipse known as a "blood moon." Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles offered a prime view, and hundreds of people were there when the eclipse ...