April Hoagland, left, and Beckie Peirce, a same-sex married couple, said Friday they are relieved after finding out they will be able to keep a baby girl they have been…
Rescue workers help a woman after a shooting Friday outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing…
of people who relocate is half what it was 65 years ago
The organizers for the Ice Magic Festival in Bruges, Belgium, are paying higher electricity bills for this year’s event because winter hasn’t quite arrived in Belgium. The organizer said he…
Pollard Pollard, 61, had been serving a life sentence but was granted parole this year under sentencing rules in place at the time of his prosecution that made him presumptively…
LONDON – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lunched with Queen Elizabeth II and rallied thousands of cheering supporters on the second day of his high-profile official visit to Britain, as…
WASHINGTON – There’s little doubt which candidate the Democratic Party establishment supports for president. It’s not even close. Hillary Clinton has locked up public support from half of the Democratic…
Jessica Wang, left, and Michael Teylan, both of Los Angeles, create a “bubble gum kiss” while visiting Seattle’s famous gum wall at Pike Place Market.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press Crews are…
Carlow the cat began his career with the New York firefighters on Engine 22, Ladder 13 by catching mice at the upper Manhattan fire station before becoming the station’s official…
Life is getting complicated for the widow of a toy inventor, who filed a lawsuit claiming Hasbro and another inventor cut her out of millions in royalties for the board…
The Paris prosecutor said the death toll from the attacks could exceed 120. He also said at least five terrorists were killed in the attacks around the city. French President…
Secret Service officer Lee Robert Moore Friday waived his right to a preliminary hearing on state charges of solicitation of a minor and providing obscene materials to a child under…
Families of victims say it ‘doesn’t change anything’
Asaro NEW YORK – An aging mobster has been acquitted of charges he helped plan the 1978 Lufthansa heist that was retold in the hit Mafia movie “Goodfellas.” A New…
Students demanding more diversity, resources for minorities
Experts say footage meant to ‘scare the world’
PARIS – France’s leadership is bristling at U.S. resistance to making a global climate accord under negotiation in Paris next month legally binding. French President François Hollande, whose country is…
women say China’s new policy comes too late for them
President Barack Obama said he instantly liked Army Capt. Florent Grobert after he visited him at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center because he was a Chicago Bears fan. Grobert…
University of Missouri grounds maintenance workers begin to clean up Mel Carnahan Quad on the University of Missouri campus Wednesday in Columbia, Mo.John Happel/Columbia Missourian Michael Middleton, 68, takes over…
SEATTLE – Customers returned to Pacific Northwest Chipotle restaurants on Wednesday as the chain reopened after an E. coli outbreak that sickened about 45 people in Washington state and Oregon.…
At an observance at Arlington National Cemetery, Obama said the Department of Veterans Affairs is getting a bigger budget and making progress on entrenched problems such as veteran homelessness and…
Pebb Enterprises confirmed Wednesday that two executives and five employees of the Baca Raton, Fla., real estate company were killed when a small jet crashed into an apartment building in…
Cameron Cameron said the EU must agree to “irreversible changes” that would cede autonomy back to member states – and limit freedom of movement, a key EU principle, by allowing…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is nominating a new director for the Office of Personnel Management. It’s the official who’s been in charge temporarily ever since the previous director resigned…
