The Senate blocked a bill sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. that would have barred the United States from purchasing heavy water from Iran.Alex Brandon/Associated Press The Senate fell three…
Suncor chief executive Steve Williams, the head of Canada’s largest oil company, said about a million barrels a day went offline but said some of that has already started to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump won Tuesday in West Virginia and Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining rivals. It was not a…
President won’t revisit decision to bomb Hiroshima, aides say
From left, Brad Steinle, Liz Sullivan and Jim Steinle, the brother, mother and father of Kathryn Steinle who was shot to death on a pier in San Francisco at a…
The son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had a narrow lead in the vice presidential race. Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of southern Davao city, had secured more than 14.4 million…
Donald Trump, the most voluble U.S. presidential candidate in memory, will soon be entitled to regular briefings on some of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence secrets. Once Trump, known for…
A burned out pickup truck rests in a parking lot, seen during a media tour of the fire-damaged city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Monday.Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP…
Brash billionaire and now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be the subject of The Trump Factor in American Politics, a three-credit hour class at Savannah State University.Mary…
Mercury but black dot against glowing orb that powers the solar system
Secretary of State John Kerry, center, is attending a meeting on the conflict in Syria in Paris. The U.S. and Russia are trying to keep a cease-fire in Syria from…
Water is released from a helicopter hovering over a wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Sunday. Officials said Sunday they have completed the transport of thousands of evacuees and reached…
President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Friday. There’s no cheering at the White House for Donald Trump, but his ascent as…
People read newspapers in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. For nearly two years, U.S. airstrikes, military advisers and weapons shipments have helped Iraqi forces roll back the Islamic State group but…
Injured Afghan men lie in an ambulance after an accident on the main highway linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday. Officials say two…
If the rise of Trump has no obvious precedent, neither does an election like this. Clinton, whose buoyant favorable ratings in the State Department convinced some Democrats that she could…
states benefiting from shift to wind and solar energy
Several factors have led to decline
Vandalism at parks has risen in recent years
Economists question candidate’s recovery plan
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama politics are at a low point even by Alabama standards. Three top elected officials are embroiled in scandal or facing removal from office, while a former…
And don’t name your daughter Isis. For the second year in a row, Emma and Noah top the annual list of top baby names in the U.S., according to the…
George, a once neglected and homeless 140-pound Newfoundland Landseer, with his owner Colin Campbell, immediately took to swimming and surfing after Campbell moved to California. Campbell is on a nationwide…
Authorities unable to capture suspect after first shootings
CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death sentence against six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the…
