President Barack Obama visited with several Alaska Natives, including fisher Kim Williams, during a stop to Dillingham, Alaska, to highlight how climate change is already affecting the state’s residents.Andrew Harnik/Associated…
A Justice Department report due out Thursday said Ferguson, Mo., police complained about getting inconsistent orders from their superiors on how to handle arrests when rioting broke out following last…
WASHINGTON – Texas abortion clinics are asking the Supreme Court to take up a major case about abortion rights in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign. The clinics said…
Migrants wait Tuesday at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, to board a train that will take them to Munich, Germany. Migrants possessing valid documents and a train ticket…
Defense Secretary Ash Carter chatted with U.S. service members Tuesday on social media sites to discuss his goals of making certain that U.S. military forces are “the firstest with the…
blames ice’s rapid retreat on worsening climate change
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’s supporters are urging her to stand firm in her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even after the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday refused…
closing in on getting veto-proof backing for proposal
Fiorina WASHINGTON – CNN on Tuesday amended its criteria for the next Republican presidential debate, giving former technology executive Carly Fiorina a better chance at appearing in the Sept. 16…
A lunch menu from the Titanic that was saved by one of the ocean liner’s wealthy passengers on the day the ship sank is expected to bring $50,000 to $70,000…
serves as anthropogist-in-residence for sanitation department
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s warring president and prime minister have separately marked the 35th anniversary of a key deal between striking workers and communist authorities that opened the way to…
An aide for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday said the Republican presidential candidate isn’t suggesting that there should be a wall along the U.S.-Canada border. However, campaign spokeswoman AshLee…
OLATHE, Kan. – The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a Nazi salute Monday after they convicted him of murder and…
Thai police found bomb-making materials, including gunpowder, digital clocks and remote-control car parts, inside an apartment that was raided this weekend outside Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police are searching for two…
During his three-day tour of Alaska, Obama planned to hike a glacier, converse with fishermen and tape a reality TV show with survivalist Bear Grylls – all part of a…
Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department climate change conference and become the first president to visit…
HOUSTON – The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a lengthy criminal record going back a decade, but never…
Volunteers harvest hemp at a farm in Springfield, Colo., during the first known harvest of industrial hemp in the U.S. since the 1950s. The Oregon Department of Agriculture has stopped…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram are trying to extend their violent campaign across the country including Lagos, the country largest city, an intelligence official said Sunday…
Hungary’s hostility to immigrants fails to dissuade the desperate
Full or preliminary scores have been released for Connecticut, Idaho, Missouri, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia. They all participated in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two groups…
Real estate officials say improving pay – and a tightening rental market – are helping Americans’ confidence in making big purchases such as a home. The National Association of Realtors…
HOUSTON – Prosecutors on Saturday charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling up his patrol…
BANGKOK – Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough…
