WASHINGTON (AP) – Long is the list of problems Congress has addressed with short-term answers. When senators left town early Saturday after approving a brief extension of the nation’s highway…
Africa’s biggest oil producer struggles through delivery-strike
Country votes resoundingly to amend its constitution
The National Security Agency began winding down its collection and storage of American phone records this week after the Senate failed to agree on a path forward to change or…
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is slated to deliver a sunset piano performance of “Ol’ Man River” on Saturday on the banks of the Mississippi River with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.Susan…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A suicide bomber killed at least 19 people Friday in a blast inside a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia as worshippers commemorated the 7th century…
Eiffel Tower workers are demanding that Paris police begin permanently patrolling the area around the tourist attraction because of an increase in crime at the site. The French workers’ union…
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email account about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that was later…
California’s Water Resources Control Board on Friday accepted an offer from farmers in the state’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to voluntarily reduce their use of water for agricultural uses by…
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email server that has now been classified about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi while she…
Richard Vogel/Associated Press<br><br>Consumer prices were up slightly in April, the third consecutive month that prices have risen, the Labor Department reported Friday. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy,…
Workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif. More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that…
housing, programs helping to refuel Motor City’s population
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says a recent investigation found several instances of fraud and inefficiencies in the practices of the company that makes the Proton rocket booster. A rocket…
NEW YORK – The national president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization’s longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer…
DAMASCUS, Syria – Fears mounted over the fate of one of the Mideast’s most prominent archaeological sites after Islamic State militants overran the historic Syrian town of Palmyra, seizing control…
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Thursday urged Senate leaders to consider the House-passed bill to renew the USA Freedom Act before the chamber begins its holiday vacation.Susan Walsh/Associated…
Pascal Tessier, center, was hired in April as the nation’s first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader.Associated Press file photo In a speech in Atlanta to the…
Volunteers such as John Ziegler of Pismo Beach, Calif, are collecting oil that has drifted onto the beach north of Goleta, Calif. A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a…
Republican presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., argued on the Seante floor Wednesday against reauthorizing the Patriot Act, which called “the most un-patriotic act.”Senate TV via Associated Press WASHINGTON –…
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday told military commanders that his country would not give in to “excessive demands and bullying” to allow international inspectors to investigate Iran’s…
NEW ORLEANS – A committee of lawyers representing businesses and individuals who claim damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill announced a $211 million settlement Wednesday with Transocean…
SANAA, Yemen – The United Nations set the date for peace talks on Yemen for next week in Geneva, while the Saudi-led coalition on Wednesday bombed Shiite rebels in at…
extremists advance on ancient Roman city in Syria
U.S. releases al-Qaida leader’s seized documents
