About 17,000 people turned out for Iowa’s Republican straw poll in 2011, which was won by candidate Michele Bachmann. The state GOP party officials agreed Friday to end the poll…
Authorities are continuing their search in the Dannemora, N.Y., area for two escaped prisoners from the local prison. The district attorney said Friday he is considering charges against prison worker…
French prosecutor Brice Robin Thursday said Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had increased his use of medication prior to flying his plane into the Alps after locking the pilot out of…
Group: Hackers stole details about every federal employee
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, with Defense Secretary Ash Carter, said he could recommend that U.S. troops begin calling in airstrikes against Islamic State targets.Andrew Harnik/Associated Press file…
WASHINGTON – The IRS says it’s working with states and companies to fight identity theft. The problem has affected thousands of taxpayers and cost the government billions of dollars because…
Real estate agent Stephan Marshall, bottom, looks at a home in Pacifica, Calif., with potential buyer Sasha Martinez. Housing prices have rebounded since the Great Recession, helping boost Americans’ net…
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano has said his agency won’t complete its report on allegations that Iran has worked on developing nuclear weapons before the…
WASHINGTON – The engineer in last month’s fatal Amtrak crash wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download anything just before the train sped off the tracks, investigators said…
Attacks had previously focused mainly on the Egyptian security forces that supported el-Sissi in his ouster of President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood almost two years ago. But the…
Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, right, Tuesday urged lawmakers to reject a measure mandating that schoolchildren be vaccinated during a hearing of the California Assembly…
After more than a year of war in the Ukraine, a new poll suggests that many Europeans may not be willing to go to war with Russia if it were…
Germanwings flight crashed into mountain
ABENGHAZI, Libya – UN-brokered negotiations aimed at stemming Libya’s collapse into a failed state threatened to fall apart after the country’s internationally recognized parliament Tuesday dropped out of the talks…
WASHINGTON – The House voted Tuesday to make permanent a moratorium that prevents states from taxing access to the Internet. Under current law, the moratorium ends Oct. 1. Lawmakers said…
Vincent Bugliosi’s son, Vincent Jr., said his father died Saturday of cancer at a hospital in Los Angeles. Bugiosi was the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial and author of…
Network television cameras inside the White House Briefing Room were turned toward the ceiling Tuesday after the room was evacuated for about 20 minutes after a bomb threat was called…
Legal experts are predicting that gay marriages could come to a halt in many states if the Supreme Court upholds states’ rights to ban same-sex unions. They suggest it may…
A complicated path ahead in moving away from carbon
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether or not the Affordable Care Act allows federal subsidies for people who sign up for insurance in states that did…
MEXICO CITY – Despite widespread disillusionment with his government, President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday emerged from midterm elections with an expected congressional majority that will let him forge ahead…
HONOLULU – A parachute failed to inflate during a NASA test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft – and eventually astronauts – on Mars. NASA spokeswoman Kimberly Newton said…
is trying journalist on spy charges
