The cruise missiles that crashed down before dawn on a Syrian air base sent a clear message to President Bashar Assad: The use of chemical weapons will be met with U.S. force.
The outcome is less clear: Assad's grip on power is as firm as ever and (...)
Tony Stewart needed to retire to win the Daytona 500. From runner-up through DNFs, he failed to win NASCAR's marquee race. Stewart's NASCAR career ended without a win in 17 tries in the Daytona 500. Turns out he just needed to trade the firesuit for (...)
Ian Poulter has birdied all of the par 5s on the TPC Sawgrass for a 7-under 65 and the early lead at The Players Championship Thursday.
Poulter ran off four straight birdies around the turn — two of them on par 5s — and wound up with a one-shot (...)
Kevin Anderson beat Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic 6-4, 7-6 (2) Sunday to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships for his second career ATP title.
The seventh-seeded Anderson, the first South African to win this 20-year-old (...)
Kevin Anderson beat Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic 6-4, 7-6 (2) Sunday to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships for his second career ATP title.
The seventh-seeded Anderson, the first South African to win this 20-year-old (...)
Carl Edwards fell bitterly short in last season's bid to win the NASCAR championship. He's starting 2012 out front.
Edwards, who lost the championship last season on a tie-breaker to Tony Stewart, won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, (...)
Kyle Busch edged Tony Stewart in a thrilling finish to the first race of 2012, using a slingshot pass Saturday on the last lap of the exhibition Budweiser Shootout to beat the defending NASCAR champion to the checkered flag.
Busch made two (...)
AJ Allmendinger won five races during the 2006 season in Champ Car, then walked away hoping to launch a new career in NASCAR.
He was at the top of his game when he left open-wheel, and figured he'd make a smooth and successful transition to stock (...)
The lesson begins on the beach with a youngster lying on a surfboard more than twice her size. After some brief orientation, the child, joined by a world-class surfing coach, is soon paddling about 30 yards (30 meters) into the ocean.
As a modest (...)
Sasha Obama is proving that the president isn't the only golfer in the family.
On a family trip to a miniature golf course, 9-year-old Sasha hit a hole-in-one in front of the watchful eye of the media, and much to the delight of her father, an avid (...)
Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to (...)
Davis Love III shot a 5-under-par 30 on the front nine Saturday to climb into contention at the US Open.
Love made four birdies and an eagle to miss tying the Open scoring record for nine holes by one shot. Through 12 holes, Love was at 2-over par, (...)
Jamie McMurray held off a hard-charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. over a wild, two-lap sprint to win NASCAR's Daytona 500 Sunday.
The race was stopped twice and delayed for more than two hours because of a pothole at Daytona International Speedway, and (...)
Inspired by a young friend who died from leukemia, singer Rihanna is working to get help for those who suffer from the disease.
Rihanna was among the celebrities who submitted a request for funding to Pepsi's Refresh Project, which doles out $20 (...)
Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery for Jessica Alba.
The actress said Saturday she's been distressed by Internet reports about a Chinese woman who is having a plastic surgery makeover to look like Alba in hopes of getting her lover (...)
Joao Barbosa powered Action Express Racing to the 24 Hours of Daytona title Sunday, finishing an improbable victory in the organization's first appearance in the sports car endurance race.
The newly formed team avoided major mechanical problems and (...)
Chip Ganassi Racing was on its way to reclaiming the 24 Hours of Daytona title, with Juan Pablo Montoya leading more than six hours into the sports car endurance race Saturday.
Montoya powered past Lucas Luhr on the outside of the slippery track (...)
Police say Ivana Trump has been escorted off a plane in Florida after she became belligerent when children were running and screaming in the aisles.
Authorities say the first ex-wife of billionaire Donald Trump cussed at the children Saturday, and (...)
Rapper Tone Loc, who performed the 1980s hits “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” was released from the hospital Friday after collapsing during an outdoor concert in Florida, officials said.
A spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's (...)
A Kansas man accused of beating a gull that tried to eat his wife's ice cream is appealing a $275 fine stemming from the incident in California.
Police say Djuric beat a Heermann's gull with a stick and broke its wing in Laguna Beach on New Year's (...)
Defending champion Tommy Armour III made a 36-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a three-way playoff with Scott Simpson and Brock MacKenzie on Sunday to win the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational.
The 49-year-old Armour, a two-time PGA Tour (...)
When the police got a tip that Bonner Elementary was being hit for the second time in a week, they rushed three squad cars to the school. As they were cordoning off the grounds, the burglars emerged _ dashing out a front door and across a (...)