CHICAGO — If you think it sounds incongruous to describe the largest predatory dinosaur yet known as “half duck, half crocodile,” well, correct. But that's the phrase University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno used for Spinosaurus, the Cretaceous ...

Children played near Ukrainian soldiers in Shchastya on Wednesday, while Russia's Vladimir Putin and Western leaders continued their chess game over Ukraine's fate. The Dallas Morning News. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 03 September 2014 ...

Shame on me, since it took the cops roughing up a few reporters to draw my full attention to the unfolding drama on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. After the shooting Saturday of a teenager there named Michael Brown, I paid only cursory attention to the ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials said late Wednesday that U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish fighters had broken the siege on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, allowing thousands of trapped members of a minority group to escape. A team of about 20 ...

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Mike Groll). SportsDayDFW.com. SportsDayDFW.com The Dallas Morning News.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel and Hamas have agreed to an unconditional 72-hour humanitarian truce to begin Friday morning, diplomats from the United States and the United Nations announced Thursday, potentially paving the way for an end to the ...

This photo released by Paramount Pictures shows Optimus Prime in a scene from the the film, "Transformers: Age of Extinction." 1, of, 4, Next Image. By JOCELYN NOVECK. JOCELYN NOVECK The Dallas Morning News. AP National Writer. Published: 26 ...

Fans showed their feelings about the Los Angeles Clippers and team owner Donald Sterling before Tuesday's playoff game between the team and the Golden State Warriors in Los Angeles. The Dallas Morning News. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 29 ...

Vyacheslav Ponomariov (second from left), the self-appointed mayor of Slovyansk, speaks with members of a group of European military observers being held by his group during a news conference at City Hall. The militants rebuffed calls for their release.

Nuns hold up portraits of John Paul II (left) and John XXIII in St. Peter's Square. The unprecedented double canonization of the popes drew crowds from around the world. Many people waited hours for the ceremony.

The Kremlin arranged for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to call in to Vladimir Putin's show and ask if Russia spies on its citizens. No, Putin said. “Thank God.” The Dallas Morning News. Published: 18 April 2014 12:21 AM. Updated: 18 April 2014 ...

GENEVA — The United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union reached an agreement Thursday that calls for pro-Russia militants to give up the government buildings they have seized in eastern Ukraine and outlines other steps to de-escalate the ...

From left: Ramon Pichs Madruga, Ottmar Edenhofer and Rejendra K. Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said during a news conference Sunday in Berlin that governments need to do more to avert profound risks in coming decades.

An Afghan policeman tried to keep order as voters waited in line outside a polling station in Bamiyan on Saturday. Afghan voters went to the polls to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, braving Taliban threats in a landmark election. The Dallas ...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (left) and Gov. Rick Perry spoke Friday at the entrance to Fort Hood and visited some of the wounded at a military hospital. The Dallas Morning News. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 04 April 2014 11:53 PM. Updated: 04 April 2014 ...

Associated Press reporter Kathy Gannon (left) and photographer Anja Niedringhaus were shot Friday in Afghanistan. Niedringhaus died. The Associated Press. The Associated Press The Dallas Morning News. Published: 04 April 2014 05:38 PM. Updated: 04 ...

Bob Gordon paints a cross placed in front of 16 American flags as he helps build a memorial in front of Central Christian Disciples of Christ Church in Killeen for the victims of the Fort Hood shootings. The Dallas Morning News. FROM WIRE REPORTS.

Ivan Hurtado Lopez had just left class when the first phone calls and text messages started to come in Wednesday from friends looking to see where he was and make sure he was OK. He was in Phoenix, where he lives with his wife and their 9-year-old ...

The story of Noah in my frayed Bible (New Revised Standard Version) starts at the bottom of Page 5 and ends on Page 8. The new biblical spectacle Noah runs 138 minutes. The laws of mathematics suggest the filmmakers, particularly director Darren ...

A three-year scan of a tiny portion of the sky with the BICEP2 telescope (foreground) at the South Pole detected evidence of the universe's initial, faster-than-light growth spurt, scientists say. The Dallas Morning News. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 17 ...