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The president announced his decision in a speech to a trade fair in Germany. The deployment will bring the total number of American military personnel deployed in Syria to as many as 300.

Figures for October and November were revised upward, with job creation numbers over the past three months at an average of 284,000. Unemployment held steady last month at 5 percent.

The SEAL died after ISIS fighters broke through Kurdish defensive lines with a complex attack involving car or truck bombs and subsequent infantry-style raids, Defense Department officials say.

Columbus City leaders say the latest U.N. climate report bolsters the case for local efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

Sze is a poet with a lot of acclaim — he's won the National Book Award, was a Guggenheim fellow and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. He aims to promote interest in translated poetry in his new role.

The case is described as the first of its kind: A 14-year-old girl with cancer asked a court to grant her last wish, that her body be preserved in case future technology allows her to be revived.

President Trump's suggestion that some countries produce more desirable immigrants than others echoes thinking popular nearly 100 years ago, when visas were allocated on the basis of national origin.

Violence in the tiny African nation of Burundi has killed scores of people in recent days. Is it new ethnic bloodbath or lingering political tension over the president's decision to seek a third term?

The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, receive the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Matthew Bunn, acting executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the U.N. watchdog group and its work.

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John Warner (R-VA), makes an unscheduled visit to the Pentagon to demand details of U.S. military efforts to pay journalists to plant stories in Iraqi newspapers. The Pentagon says disclaimers that were meant to run with the stories were omitted.