TOPEKA, Kan. – A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to attend concerts, get tattoos, see a psychic or buy lingerie.…
If his marathon session in 2014 trumpeted the annexation of Crimea and issues of national pride, this year Putin fielded questions from across Russia on issues like dairy cow production,…
Florida postal worker Doug Hughes puts address labels on letters he planned to deliver to members of Congress after he flew to the U.S. Capitol on a gyrocopter on Tuesday.…
Equal Opportunity Employment Commission Chairwoman Jenny Yang says her agency is trying to “harmonize” federal laws banning discrimination based on workers’ health and health-care rules that allow businesses to use…
Several lawmakers are questioning how Florida Postal Service worker Doug Hughes was able to fly a gyrocopter from Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania, to the U.S. Capitol without being detected or stopped on…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Barack Obama promoted his tax proposals Wednesday while criticizing congressional Republicans who are pushing to repeal the estate tax. The House is expected to pass a…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, told foreign ministers attending a Group of Seven meeting in Luebeck, Germany, that he is confident that Western nations will be able to…
Organizers of the Fight for $15 campaign say protests, such as this one that was held Tuesday in Boston, are planned in several cities and will include workers from several…
United Nations officials are concerned by the increasing number of refugees who are dying en route to Europe while trying to flee war and poverty in Africa and the Middle…
President Barack Obama answers a question during a town hall with women bloggers Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C.Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press The House is expected to pass a bill this week to…
say he deserves medal for using cruiser to disarm shooter
Cuban citizens and government officials are praising President Barack Obama’s decision to remove their country from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press file Cuban officials and…
worker lands gyrocopter on Capitol’s West Lawn
A new study shows that about 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Northwest Coast if they just walk a little faster to reach higher ground and…
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday defended a Senate vote passing a bipartisan bill that headed off a cut in Medicaid payments to doctors.Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated…
Foreign ministers for the Group of Seven nations are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to prepare for the full G7 meeting in June.Markus Schreiber/Associated Press Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke to reporters shortly…
The House first voted 263-162 on a bill to ease some curbs on lending for mobile and modular homes. Lawmakers then voted 286-140 for a second measure that would ease…
WASHINGTON – The same Internet access now available on most commercial flights makes it possible for hackers to bring down a plane, a government watchdog warned Tuesday. The finding by…
They were among the more than 315,000 items of trash picked up from New Jersey’s 127-mile coastline in 2014 by volunteers as part of spring and fall beach sweeps carried…
The Obama administration will begin telling some suspected terrorists if and why they are on a list of tens of thousands of people banned from flying to, from or within…
PARIS – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called Monday for emergency government surveillance powers in case of an exceptional threat, a move prompted by the deadly Paris attacks earlier this…
Russians call system ‘purely defensive’ weapon
LOS ANGELES – One of California’s largest water wholesalers moved forward Monday on a plan to reduce the amount of water it delivers to more than two dozen cities and…
Nonlethal weapons may give officers ‘false reassurance’
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Rev. Al Sharpton thanked the mayor and police chief in North Charleston on Sunday for their response to the fatal shooting of Walter Scott. Sharpton…
