A Pakistani official says that more than 131 people have been killed, mostly school children, in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Witnesses said gunmen stormed the school and started shooting at random
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday morning he will “actively explore” a run for the White House in 2016
Australian officials offered words of comfort and sympathy to a shocked nation after a 16-hour hostage crisis ended in tragedy on Tuesday
TIME, in association with the photo-sharing app, takes a look back at the key moments of 2014: From the toll of war in Gaza to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and from the border between Mexico and the U.S. all the way to Mongolia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone
Former President Bill Clinton is set to address the Eric Garner case in a Tuesday interview. “He was selling untaxed cigarettes on the street in small volumes, trying to make a little extra money,” Clinton said. “He didn’t deserve to die because of that”
Next year’s inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who will take their place in music history at the Cleveland museum’s April 18 ceremony
A Vatican survey finds that American nuns have reached an average age of mid-to-late 70’s, opening up an ever-widening age gap with fresh recruits. The report also notes that the total number of apostolic women, at 50,000, had declined by 125,000 since the the mid-1960s
Brad Pitt pushed back at the media’s coverage of the recent Sony hack, saying journalists were wrong for publishing sensitive information stolen from the Hollywood studio. “We shouldn’t be participating and these sites that are disseminating them should stop,” he said
The wife of Bill Cosby defended her husband on Monday as outrage mounts over sexual assault accusations leveled against him. "None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim," she said. "But the question should be asked — who is the victim?"
The Ruble continued its slide Tuesday morning, as an emergency interest rate hike by the central bank failed to stop panic selling of the local currency, stocks and bonds. By mid-morning, a key Russian stock index had fallen 15%, to its lowest level since March 2009.
Guess what spawned a "dangerous and incorrect narrative" in 2014? Fact-checking website PolitiFact says erroneous statements about the Ebola epidemic edged the U.S. "toward panic," and led to misinformation and fear toward people thousands of miles away
The Senate confirmed Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General on Monday despite concerns he was underqualified and too outspoken on gun control to be the top spokesman on public-health matters. Illinois Senator Mark Kirk is the only Republican to confirm Murthy
TIME's photo editors present a selection of underreported, improbable and astounding images from 2014
