Modeled on Iran sanctions, measures may impact companies and banks in China, through which Pyongyang does most of its business

In first remarks since Washington’s claims of sarin gas attacks in Syria, Obama says Assad’s use of weaponry would change ‘calculus’ of US military involvement

Some 20 investigators seen picking through debris outside UMass; suspects’ mother said added to federal terrorism database 18 months before attack

Pew figures show 76% of Jews support legalizing gay marriage, higher than all but the youngest and most liberal of Democrats

Raed Jaser, a Palestinian arrested over alleged al-Qaeda-backed scheme, had been spared deportation in 2004 after his arrest

Expanded West Bank barrier would surround convent on 3 sides and cut it off from most of its land, Catholic group says

Since 2008, some 2,400 Palestinian homes and buildings were knocked down in Area C, displacing over 4,400 people, according to European body

A new opera, ‘Steal a Pencil for Me,’ sets to music an unexpected Holocaust love story