Joyce Mitchell faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to two charges in connection with helping two inmates escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate…
Each time mental illness is cited as a possible factor in a high-profile mass killing, there’s a collective sigh among mental-health professionals. Even as they see an opportunity for serious…
House approves plan to stop using controversial data
NEW YORK – The Boy Scouts of America have ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion because of their faith.…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – President Barack Obama launched a personal push for peace in South Sudan on Monday, convening African leaders for urgent talks in neighboring Ethiopia aimed at keeping…
Koskinen Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama, asking him to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Chaffetz is chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which…
Landfill may contain remains of hundreds of missing youths
Passengers maneuver through one of the cramped hallways at at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. A year after comparing New York’s LaGuardia Airport to “some Third World country,” Vice President Joe…
Christina Hung, left, 23, of Oakland, fills out an application form during a health-care enrollment event at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, Calif. State-run health insurance markets that…
After months of medical care, he had to find a new college to attend – the one at which he enrolled said its campus was not accessible to wheelchairs. One…
CAMARILLO, Calif. – The average price of gasoline has dropped a penny over the past two weeks to $2.82 a gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the current…
A protester erupted Sunday in Istanbul to denounce the deaths of 32 people in a suicide bombing attack Monday in Suruc, southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria. Turkey on…
Disappointing enrollment, cost challenges lead to financial uncertainty
BAGHDAD – Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in…
LAFAYETTE, La. – John Russell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theater in Louisiana, but decades of mental problems didn’t keep him from…
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Shiite rebels known as Houthis hold up their weapons as they chant slogans during a rally against Saudi-led airstrikes Friday in Sanaa, Yemen.Hani Mohammed/Associated Press The airstrikes hit workers’ housing…
Smoke from the Reynolds Creek Fire rises Tuesday above the landscape at St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Mont. The flames forced tourists to abandon their vehicles on the…
The deal gives AT&T control of DirecTV’s 20.4 million customers and valuable programming, turning it into a media giant in addition to a telecommunications company. Armed with DirecTV’s paid content…
NASA scientists say new photos from the New Horizons spacecraft are showing some “pretty mind-blowing discoveries” about Pluto, including a layer of atmospheric haze that gives the dwarf planet its…
Autopsy results indicate that Sandra Bland hanged herself in this Waller County, Texas, jail cell with a plastic garbage bag.Pat Sullivan/Associated Press Bland’s death after her arrest for a minor…
DETROIT – Fiat Chrysler has decided to recall about 1.4 million cars and trucks in the U.S. just days after two hackers revealed that they took control of a Jeep…
BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has won a third term in office, an electoral official announced Friday, amid controversy over whether his new term is constitutional. Nkurunziza won…
U.S. intelligence agencies fear classified data was compromised
