NBC News came under fire on social media over a “ridiculous” headline that seemed to fault “conservative news outlets” for reporting that a Democrat Senate staffer filmed a gay sex video in a Capitol Hill hearing room. The report came after the Daily Caller published an amateur pornographic video Friday …

Denmark has reached a defense agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. soldiers and military equipment to be based on Danish soil, the country’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday. The 10-year agreement was announced after the United States signed similar agreements with Finland and Sweden this …

Ever heard of Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP? Probably not, unless you’re a nuclear weapons expert. In the 1950’s, At the dawn of the nuclear age, most weapons analysts focused on the unparalleled death and destruction even one nuclear weapon would cause. Bomb blast, fireball, radiation poisoning. But few thought about …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run agency says Tahsin Sahinkaya, the last surviving member of a junta that led Turkey’s 1980 military coup, has died. He was 90. Anadolu says former air force commander Sahinkaya died at a military hospital in Istanbul on Thursday. The cause of death was not immediately …

CHICAGO – Farm Aid will have a 30th-anniversary concert featuring Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews in Chicago. Plans were announced Tuesday for the all-day Farm Aid 30 show on Sept. 19. Other performers include Mavis Staples, Kacey Musgraves and Jack Johnson. Nelson is Farm Aid’s president …

BATON ROUGE, La. – Theresa Plaisance scored 13 points, grabbed nine rebounds and blocked three shots, and LSU snapped a snapped a two-game skid with a 62-54 upset of No. 9 Georgia on Sunday. Plaisance, whose late-game failure at the foul line marred an otherwise dominant 20-point outing in a …

This is a rush transcript from “Glenn Beck,” June 8, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GLENN BECK, HOST: I want to go to South Carolina now and Mark Sanford — he is the governor down there. Governor, I have to tell …

LONDON – It’s October 1968, and the Soviet Union has just landed cosmonauts on the moon. Warsaw Pact troops are massing on the Austrian border, and nuclear showdown looms between east and west. This scenario never happened — except in planning exercises by British civil servants, who meticulously rehearsed how …

WIMBLEDON, England – Even on one good leg, Venus Williams is tough to beat at Wimbledon. The five-time champion wore a strap on her left knee Thursday but still advanced to the third round by beating Kateryna Bondarenko 6-3, 6-2. The tournament favorite, Williams has been hampered by knee trouble …

GENEVA – A top Swiss official said Monday that voter approval of a ban on minarets next to mosques could be struck down in court, as critics at home and abroad swiftly condemned the vote, saying it undermined the country’s secular image. Legal experts have questioned whether the ban on …