LONDON – A British teenager has been convicted of planning a gun and bomb attack at his former college, buying a semi-automatic handgun and ammunition online to carry out a massacre. A jury found Liam Lyburd guilty of amassing weapons to target northern England’s Newcastle College, which had expelled him …

We were all wondering if it could live up to the hype – and it did. And then some. Thurday evening’s two-hour event in Cleveland exceeded all expectations. Each of the candidates did extremely well in their own right. With ten candidates on stage, and seven appearing earlier this evening, …

BERLIN – Switzerland’s president has hit back at a regional official’s call for less generous treatment of Eritrean asylum-seekers, saying that the European country can’t send them home. An official in Lucerne canton (state), Guido Graf, wrote to President Simonetta Sommaruga this week that three-quarters of applications in his region …

NEW YORK — Hulu introduced a new paid subscription service for watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles, television sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to strike a balance between paid and ad supported models. Until now, Hulu has been free over the web …

Hillary Clinton thinks she has touched a populist nerve with the American middle class with her $350 billion ten year plan to make college more affordable. And in some ways she has. I’ve long argued as the father of two college kids that the biggest scam in America is how …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s military says Kurdish rebels attacked a military outpost in southeast Turkey, triggering a clash that left a soldier and two militants dead. The military said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK on Wednesday fired shots and rockets at the post near the mainly Kurdish …

President Obama’s plan, announced Friday, to make community college free for promising students, will be seen by some as a game-changer. As the president noted in his speech, his proposal — “America’s College Promise” — is based on Gov. Bill Haslam’s Tennessee Promise program, which offers free tuition to students …

Two historic events are in progress today, August 14. The first is the arrival of Secretary of State John Kerry in Cuba. The second is President Obama’s continued campaign to secure Congressional approval for his flawed nuclear deal with Iran. These two dangerous developments represent the convergence of nearly every …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union’s top official says Burundi’s recent violence shows there is a risk the country can slide into chaos with catastrophic consequences for the country and the surrounding region. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairwoman of the African Union Commission, reacted Sunday to the assassination the day before …

MANSFIELD, Mass. – Parrotheads are apparently too busy wasting away in Margaritaville to wait in line for the bathroom. Mansfield police tell The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1HTQHnB ) that despite warnings against the practice, many fans at the Jimmy Buffett concert Saturday at the Xfinity Center brought homemade, portable toilets for …