Construction workers John Croft, from left, Michael Edwards and Lee Croft, repair damage to the roof of a chicken house along Arkansas 247 north of Atkins, Ark., near where a…
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after…
Cameron The issue is sensitive because U.S. Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims visiting the U.S. because of concerns about extremist attacks. Stella…
Companies add flights, but rain and snow could delay travelers
Airport officials said access to one of two terminals was blocked, which also caused backups on nearby roads. Some protesters took a light-rail train to the airport from the Mall…
U.S. consumer spending rebounded in November after a weak showing in October, while a key inflation gauge posted the fastest year-over-year increase in 11 months.Ben Margot/Associated Press file photo Spending…
A new poll shows that Republicans are still deeply divided on abortion with 70 percent of conservative Republicans wanting it to be illegal while 60 percent of moderate and liberals…
Mourners set up a makeshift memorial to the victims of a woman who allegedly plowed her car into crowds of people walking down the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night. The…
U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bergdahl leaves the courthouse Tuesday after his arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C.Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer Bergdahl, who was held by the Taliban for five years…
Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, emerges from the party’s Munich headquarters. Historical documents show Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg…
From President Juan Manuel Santos to Miss Colombia’s relatives in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla, millions of Colombians who tuned in for Sunday’s pageant screamed joyously when it was…
In a year-end interview with NPR News, Obama said demographic changes combined with the “economic stresses” people have been feeling because of the financial crisis, technology and globalization have made…
In an era of gay marriage and a black president, more than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, separatists can’t exactly swan dive into conversations…
WASHINGTON – The year-end spending bill that passed Congress on Friday contains $750 million to help El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras fight poverty and gang violence, improve security and reform…
Suspect Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages throughout the city,…
U.S. Army soldiers stand with Afghan policemen before a joint patrol of Qalanderkhail, outside of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. An Afghan official says that a suicide bomber killed foreign…
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who announced Monday he was ending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, thanked his supporters and said he was proud of his campaign, which garnered…
The woman in her 20s, who has not been identified, struck pedestrians as she drove onto the walkway in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels on Sunday evening,…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Rescuers pulled five bodies from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into an orchard in central California after vanishing from radar, local and federal authorities…
‘Nobody has proven that he’s killed anyone’
budget deal, health law foes took a different path
But the next day, Abdeslam drove to Paris, and on Nov. 13 he blew himself up outside a cafe on Boulevard Voltaire, part of the wave of attacks claimed by…
The homemade apparatus was discovered around midnight hidden in a lavatory cabinet behind a mirror where it was apparently placed during the approximately 11-hour flight to Paris from the island…
Aimee Beltran uses her 6-year-old Chihuahua to model her ugly sweater ideas on her blog.Aimee Beltran via Associated Press Zigzilla “Ziggy” and Chopper “Lambchop” got sweaters from PetSmart this year…
Democratic contenders for president face off
More than ever, I’ve found myself consumed by the season’s obligations, unleavened by its joys. It was in that mood that we happened to drive past a Tudor-style home in…
The August killings were recorded on camera and posted on social media like so many IS atrocities across the Mideast – reflecting how the Islamic State is exporting its particular…
COENHAGEN, Denmark – Rescue workers used shovels, excavators, search dogs and powerful lamps to dig through tons of snow in total darkness Saturday after an avalanche smashed into houses on…
