Smoke rises from a SpaceX launch site Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA said SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when a blast occurred.Marcia Dunn/Associated Press…
expected to blow ashore late Thursday or early Friday
A new Gallup poll shows more Americans are feeling better about their lives now than just before President Barack Obama took office eight years ago.Lance Iversen/Associated Press In 2008, fewer…
A man walks through a banner held by protesters during a speech by President Barack Obama at the 20th Anniversary Lake Tahoe Summit in Stateline, Nev.John Locher/Associated Press Obama used…
Rousseffdu1-i-syn AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday he intends to seek “spiritual guidance” in hopes of quieting a controversy he created when he left an obscene message…
Passengers prepare to board JetBlue flight 387 to Santa Clara, Cuba, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Alan Diaz/Associated Press JetBlue Flight 387 took off a few…
Turkish and Kurdish forces pulled back from battling each other Tuesday after U.S. officials demanded the two sides concentrate their efforts on battling Islamic State troops in Syria.Ismail Coskun/IHA Western…
Shutdowns also affected some Forest Service tourist sites
WASHINGTON – The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East sharply criticized Iran on Tuesday for recent high-speed maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Persian Gulf that…
A Facebook image shows Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in San Francisco. Summaries of FBI interviews with flight instructors show that Lubitz, the pilot who deliberately flew his airliner into a…
Several Democratic members of Congress are demanding Mylan provide answers about how much it costs to manufacture its EpiPen injectors after the company raised prices for the epinephrine injectors more…
Obama administration proposes health fixes WASHINGTON– In one of its last chances to tinker with President Obama’s signature health care law, the administration on Monday proposed a series of fixes…
Wilderdu1-i-syn Wilder’s nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement…
Migrant women from Nigeria, one of them holding a baby, are rescued by emergency teams from a dinghy as they were sailing at the Mediterranean sea toward the Italian coasts,…
A man looks at shirts and neckties that are part of a “Buy One Get One for a Penny” sale at a J.C. Penney store.Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Spending grew 0.3…
A Lexington, Miss., resident hugs the relative of Sister Margaret Held, after a vigil for Held and Sister Paula Merrill at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, Miss., on Sunday.…
Widow of slain refuge occupier plans to sue PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon police and two FBI agents could face a lawsuit from the widow of an Arizona rancher who took…
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The man posed as 300-year-old Chinese emperor Qianlong, who was apparently still going strong thanks to drinking the “elixir of life,” and he told a woman in southern China he…
