Miller The visit by the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate committees that oversee veterans care was the agency’s latest effort to step up pressure on Congress…
The humanoid robot named hitchBOT has already caught rides across Canada and in Europe, relying on the kindness and curiosity of strangers. But on Friday, it started its first U.S.…
Funeral homes adding to revenue sources
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating stands at 43 percent, down slightly from 47 percent in February, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll results.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press Hillary Rodham…
Karenn Hall prays at a makeshift memorial outside a military recruiting center on Friday in Chattanooga, Tenn. Muhammad Authorities say Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixson, Tenn., attacked two military facilities on…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga on Thursday, killing at least…
Ocean surface temperatures hit their highest levels in 135 years of monitoring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society reported Thursday in their annual state of…
ATHENS, Greece – Greece on Thursday won vital pledges of support from bailout lenders needed to keep its economy from collapsing, but officials in Athens said the painful austerity measures…
Auto, rail industries seek to delay, kill some laws
Israeli leader upset sanctions aren’t tied to country’s behavior
The jury in the trial of James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 more in a shooting spree in a crowded theater in 2012, has…
President Barack Obama, after visiting the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., on Thursday said many of the young nonviolent criminals being held in prison today could…
Federal authorities said they were investigating the possibility it was an act of terrorism, and the FBI took charge of the case. Authorities identified the gunman as Kuwait-born Muhammad Youssef…
Iran’s regional rivals are worried that the country’s deal with the United States and other world powers will allow the Mideast nation to increase funding to its Shiite allies in…
Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants is driving his polling numbers higher among Republicans. The billionaire candidate for the GOP presidential nomination on Wednesday visited one of his propertiesin Charlottesville,…
finds consumer assistance is often confusing, inaccurate
New images of Pluto show a mountain range stretches across the dwarf planet’s equatorial region.NASA via Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Scientists have released the first up-close images ever…
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday on Capitol Hill that she expects the job market to continue improving this year, allowing her agency to begin raising interest rates.Manuel Balce…
President Barack Obama Wednesday told reporters during a news conference at the White House that he expects a “robust” debate on the proposed agreement the U.S. and other world powers…
Netanyahu condemned the deal as a “stunning historic mistake,” saying it would not prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capability. It also did nothing to address the Islamic Republic’s support…
PHILADELPHIA – Calling it an issue America can’t afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision Tuesday for fixing the criminal justice system by focusing on communities,…
Some Republican members of Congress are pushing to make it mandatory for local officials to detain immigrants the federal government plans to deport. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, right, with San Francisco…
Many Iranian citizens praised Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday after he announced an agreement had been reached with world powers that will limit Iran’s nuclear program and end crippling…
Defense secretary calls current rules ‘outdated’
NEW YORK – Opus the Penguin and his comic strip world of “Bloom County,” absent for a quarter-century, are back along with the ridiculous times that suit them, creator Berkeley…
