A baby looks out from the window of a bus after disembarking from a crippled freighter carrying hundreds of refugees trying to migrate to Europe, at the coastal Cretan port…
Iranian envoy says ‘we are very close, very close’
Washington, D.C., voters last year said yes to legalizing marijuana use, a trend that is gaining more acceptance throughout the country. The latest General Social Survey poll shows that, for…
BEIJING – China’s official military budget will grow by about 10 percent in the coming year, a legislative spokeswoman said Wednesday, amid unease among Beijing’s neighbors about its growing might…
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old on Wednesday, but also issued a scathing report…
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas speaks at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday as the court was hearing arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of…
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will not file charges against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office via Associated…
Snowden WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that an emerging agreement between Iran and the United States would all but guarantee that Tehran gets nuclear…
California’s third snow survey, measured near this stream near Echo Summit, this winter found the Sierra Nevada snowpack is far below normal and leaning toward being the lowest on record…
Robert Mase, right, project manager for the Dawn mission at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, holds a news conference with Carol Raymond, deputy project scientist at JPL, about the agency’s Dawn…
forced to drop demands for immigration concessions
Officials: Review finds racial bias in legal system
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told a joint session of Congress that negotiations underway between Iran and the U.S. would “all but guarantee” that Tehran will get nuclear…
BALTIMORE – Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a tough and dogged daughter of working-class Baltimore who rose to become the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress, said she had one question…
The plans – one set from three GOP House chairmen, another from three top Republican senators – were far from legislative proposals, lacked detail and left many unanswered questions. They…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush distanced himself from his family on Monday as he courted senior citizens in Nevada, the first stop in a national tour aimed at key states…
BAGHDAD – Backed by Iranian-supported Shiite militias, Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive Monday to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown from the Islamic State group, the first in a series of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington on Monday. Netanyahu’s remarks to a friendly crowd served as a prelude to…
Cliff Owen/Associated Press<br><br>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told attendees at the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy conference in Washington, Monday that the nuclear deal the U.S. and other…
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. will not be seeking re-election to the Senate, she said Monday. Mikulski is the longest-serving woman in Congress.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press file…
AUSTIN, Texas – Jason Wang and Johnny Truong were part of a gang that dressed as utility workers and held a suburban Dallas homeowner at gunpoint, making off with $68,000…
you ain’t got the money, forget about running for president
BEIRUT – The Islamic State released at least 19 Christians on Sunday who were among the more than 220 people the militants took captive in northeastern Syria last week, activists…
An artist’s rendering shows what astronomers say is themost luminous object ever seen in a part of space that stretches back almost as far as the big bang. The size…
software teaches itself how to beat many Atari games
projects aren’t producing as much revenue as states hoped
