Steam rises from the coal-fired Milton Young Power Plant near Center, N.D.Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune The surprising move is a blow to the administration and a victory for the coalition…
Budget Director Shaun Donovan discussed President Barack Obama’s proposed $4.1 trillion budget for the 2017 fiscal year. The budget plan calls for increasing taxes $2.6 trillion over the next decade.Susan…
Black unsure of who’ll she’ll support, but pleased with choices
A new paper, just published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, proposes a link between a marked cooling event in the fifth and sixth centuries AD and a period of…
A pedestrian walks between rows of snow-covered trees in Worcester, Mass. during a snowstorm on Friday. A second snowstorm is moving into New England and will bring high winds, flooding…
Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s bid to win the Republican nomination for the presidential campaign got a boost after Sen. Marco Rubio’s shaky debate performance Saturday night. Kasich was in Plaistow,…
Not until 15 months later was one of those officers and a detective who concluded the shooting was justified put on desk duty. At least eight other officers failed to…
Emergency rescue workers attend survivor Lee Tsung-tien after being rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building complex in Tainan, Taiwan, on Monday. Two survivors – one found shielded under…
Luke Waid discusses lead contamination in Flint’s water as he watches his 2-year-old daughter, Sophia, and infant son, Luke Jr, in their Flint, Mich., home on Friday. A federal lawsuit…
A blast at Bharathidasan Engineering College left a crater in the ground and blew out glass windows in nearby buildings. A bus driver who was standing close to the site…
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will ask Congress for $1.8 billion to respond to the Zika virus abroad and prepare for it at home, the administration said Monday. We must…
Colerain Township Police Det. Dave Hubbard, left, and Nan Franks, CEO of Greater Cincinnati Addiction Services Council, center, meet with a heroin user, who requested to remain anonymous, five days…
Then September came, and 6-year-old Zejd was there, silently sitting on one of the school’s benches, his eyes wide open. At the time, no one at the school, not even…
From their movements and remarks on Sunday, you’d think New Hampshire is unimportant in the race for president. In fact, it’s the nation’s first primary and the next in a…
The UN Security Council responded at an emergency meeting Sunday by issuing a statement strongly condemning the rocket launch and pledging to “expeditiously” adopt a new resolution with “significant” new…
WHEATON, Ill. – Wheaton College political science professor Larycia Hawkins has decided to part ways with the college just five days before a faculty hearing was scheduled to help decide…
A man makes enquires regarding the opening of the closed Turkish border crossing with Syria, on the outskirts of the town of Kilis, in southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016.…
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver listens to Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as they join other local political and community leaders to discuss solutions for the city’s water crisis following the…
Casinos from Las Vegas to the Atlantic Coast are experimenting with different ways to draw millennials. Twin River Casino removed 274 slot machines to make way in December for more…
Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., answers a question during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College on Saturday in Manchester, N.H.David…
It’s possible virus can be sexually transmitted
CHICAGO – Authorities on Saturday released the names of six family members found dead this week in their southwest side home – the victims of what Chicago police believe was…
Lawmakers and governors of both parties have supported bills stripping gun rights from those who have been convicted of domestic violence-related crimes or are subject to protective orders. The measures…
A collapsed crane lies along a Manhattan street on Friday. The crane landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block in the Tribeca neighborhood, about 10 blocks north…
AMSTERDAM – European Union nations anxious to stem the flow of asylum-seekers coming through the Balkans are increasingly considering sending more help to nonmember Macedonia as a better way to…
Peter Saunders is a British advocate for survivors of abuse in the Catholic church as well as a survivor himself. Saunders was on Pope Francis’ sex abuse advisory committee until…
Rescue workers search a collapsed building after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, on Saturday. A powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn.Wally Santana/Associated Press A 16-story building…
