WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin joined Wednesday in calling for a tough global response to North Korea’s recent nuclear test, even as they remained at…
Customers have a drink on the terrace of the Carillon cafe Wednesday after it re-opened exactly two months after the November attacks in Paris.François Mori/Associated Press The French capital is…
Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman appears to have been more interested in meeting with Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo than meeting actor Sean Penn when he arranged to…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent drives near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Santa Teresa, N.M. The U.S. wants the UN to begin the initial screening for people wishing to apply…
Secretary of State John Kerry, center, said he expects Iran to be in compliance with the conditions set out in an international agreement aimed at curbing the Mideast country’s nuclear…
150 lawmakers call on president to stop detentions
WASHINGTON – Florida’s unique system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges – and not enough to juries – to decide capital…
A Florida judge sentenced Timothy Lee Hurst to death for the 1998 murder of his manager at a Pensacola, Fla., Popeye’s. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state’s capital…
“All the talk of America’s economic decline is political hot air,” Obama said in his final State of the Union address. “So is all the rhetoric you hear about our…
Jennifer Rawashdeh enters tickets as customers wait in line at the Eagle Market Store to buy Powerball lottery tickets in Los Angeles. The Powerball jackpot soared to $1.4 billion for…
Some of the elephants that once toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be involved in research projects to determine whether elephants’ resistance to developing cancer…
Bowie, whose hits included “Space Oddity,” “Fame,” ‘’Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died surrounded by family, representative Steve Martin said early Monday. The singer, who was 69, had fought cancer for…
In a brief email exchange with The Associated Press, Penn also dismissed criticism over his interview with the fugitive, who was captured on Friday, a day before Penn’s 10,000-word story…
This picture provided by The International Committee of the Red Cross, working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations, shows a convoy containing food, medical items, blankets…
Two days after a Philadelphia police officer was shot by a man who said he had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State, the city’s police and the FBI are investigating…
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton reaches for a smartphone for a selfie with a supporter after a campaign rally on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press Three weeks before…
FILE – In this May 6, 2010 file photo, a radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles. Mammograms do the most good later…
President Barack Obama waves before giving his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington last year. Obama will deliver his final…
At least one attacker is at large, and France’s top security official acknowledged Sunday that authorities don’t know his whereabouts. The country is under a state of emergency after attacks…
FILE – In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, a woman reacts near a display board showing the plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index at a brokerage in Beijing.…
The low-level flight in Osan, south of Seoul, follows South Korea’s decision to resume propaganda broadcasts across the demilitarized zone in retaliation to Kim Jong Un’s bomb test Wednesday. The…
In fact, with the jackpot soaring to mind-boggling levels – it rose to $1.3 billion Sunday, the biggest lottery prize in North American history – Powerball hysteria is sweeping the…
WASHINGTON – A Syrian refugee is among those invited to sit in first lady Michelle Obama’s visitor box to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Obama…
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton addresses an audience during an event Sunday in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Clinton in the presidential race. The endorsement by the group’s…
Penn’s article on Guzman was published late Saturday by Rolling Stone, a day after Mexican marines captured the world’s most wanted kingpin in a raid on the city of Los…
Ranchers’ cause, not tactics, attracts Republican supporters
departments let anyone hear scanner chatter while others encrypt
Executives hope game-like slots will lure more young gamblers
