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President Obama convenes his National Security Council at CIA Headquarters on Wednesday. On the agenda: how to defeat ISIS, how to advance peace in Syria and how to achieve those two goals quickly.

The controversial law excluded LGBT people from protection against discrimination. It also required transgender individuals to use bathrooms based on the gender listed on their birth certificate.

The spellers made it through 25 championship rounds to be named co-winners. Nihar Saireddy Janga was among the youngest in the finals; Jairam Jagadeesh Hathwar follows his brother, a 2014 co-champ.

The Boston Landmarks Commission voted to study whether the modern - and some say - tacky, Citgo sign is culturally important enough to warrant state protection as a historic landmark.

Remigio Pereira altered two lines to feature the phrase, often used by critics of the Black Lives Matter movement. The other three members of The Tenors called the move "disrespectful" and "shameful."

The Senate is set to vote on a measure to target the growing epidemic of opioid addictions. The bill has many new policies and initiatives, but it doesn't come with money to put them into practice.

Speaking by Skype, Abdel Kafi Alhamdo an English teacher at the University of Aleppo, living in the rebel-held portion of the city, says the cease-fire is holding but he does not expect it to last.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi visits the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with President Obama.

With Clinton recovering at home from pneumonia after falling ill at a Sept. 11 memorial service on Sunday, her husband Bill Clinton and President Obama have been campaigning in her place.

Protesters in Minsk took to the streets in large numbers Sunday for the fifth weekend in a row, demanding that authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko step down.