Thursday in Dallas, Rick Perry will declare his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. It is his second time. Last time, Perry announced his intentions at the RedState Gathering in Charleston, S.C. in August of 2011 and surged quickly in the field to first place with almost a …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – The Pakistani army says an overnight clash near the Afghan border in the restive North Waziristan tribal area has killed 19 militants and seven soldiers. Monday’s statement from the military says there was an intense exchange of fire between security forces and militants along the …

Five people — including an 8-month old baby — are safe after a small plane crashed in the Bahamas Monday night. The Bahamian government said the five were rescued by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force after their single engine Cessna went down about 15 miles southeast of Nassau. A government …

New Jersey’s gun laws are among the nation’s strictest, but law-abiding citizens are eligible to purchase and possess handguns after filling out forms available at their local police stations, submitting to a background check on any possible criminal history or mental health issues, giving fingerprints and paying a fee. Once …

UNITED NATIONS – North Korea is accusing the United States of targeting it with anthrax and wants the U.N. Security Council to look into it. A letter from North Korea’s U.N. ambassador to the council president and the U.N. chief, made public Friday, claims that the U.S. “possesses deadly weapons …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s police force is offering a rare reward for information leading to the capture of a man suspected in a quadruple killing. In a Sunday statement, the Jamaica Constabulary Force identified the suspect as Anward Anthony Hinds. They say he is a primary suspect in a May …

VIENNA – An Austrian court has found nine people guilty of trying to join Islamic extremists in Syria and a 10th of planning to drive them there and sentenced them to prison terms of between one and three years. The nine men and one woman were stopped last year before …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Lawyers for a former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia are urging the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to drop the case against him because he is terminally ill with brain cancer. In an urgent motion released Thursday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, …

The United Nations has struck an under-the-radar deal involving its video content that apparently offers financial benefits to a private British digital online rebroadcaster and the ubiquitous search engine giant, Google. Among other curious things, the deal was struck on the basis of a purely verbal agreement, according to a …

An illegal immigrant — one of 15 who had just crossed the border into the U.S. from Mexico — was seriously wounded in an attack by a gang of suspected drug traffickers at a rest stop in Arizona’s Pinal County early Thursday, police told FoxNews.com. The same group may be …