Like highways in much of the country, a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between St. Louis and Kansas City is crumbling, and officials are struggling to fund repairs and regular…
Master Sgt. Mike Lavigne/U.S. Army<br><br>A Danish trainer helps an Iraqi army trainee, second from left, to correct his weapon’s position during simulated room clearing exercises. The Iraqi army is preparing…
Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press<br><br>A Russia-backed rebel, right, guards a bus carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war in Luhansk, Ukraine. The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, a group with a three-decade history of working…
KABUL, Afghanistan – After more than a decade of warfare, negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are set to begin, officials, diplomats and experts said as President Ashraf…
Last month was the second warmest January on record globally, behind 2007, with temperatures 1.4 degrees above the average for the 20th century, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Although the stock market opened lower Friday, U.S. market indexes ended the day at new highs on news that Greece had agreed to a plan to extend its bailout loans.Mark…
MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia’s president on Friday ordered officials to lift an overnight curfew put in place six months ago to fight the Ebola epidemic and to reopen the country’s…
Greece, European creditors OK extension for loan program
U.S. seeks stay of judge’s order delaying program
WASHINGTON – In a new setback for the health-care law and the people it’s supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that’s fouling up the…
About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration disclosed Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.Don Ryan/Associated…
Suzanne Bryant is overcome with joy Thursday as she shows off her wedding license certificate as she leaves the Travis County clerk’s office in Austin, Texas, with Sarah Goodfriend. Travis…
A man wearing a world friendship lapel pin featuring the U.S. and Cuban national flags, attends a press conference led by U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Havana,…
“It is very likely that at least some degree of Ebola virus transmission currently occurs via infectious aerosols generated from the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, or medical procedures, although…
LOS ANGELES – UCLA says seven people were infected and nearly 200 exposed to a potentially deadly, drug-resistant “superbug” on contaminated medical instruments and the bacteria may have contributed to…
New research suggests that marijuana users’ get the munchies because the drug tricks their brains into telling their bodies they are hungry even when they aren’t.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald file photo…
An explosion and fire at an ExxonMobile refinery in Torrance, Calif., on Wednesday is expected to push gasoline prices higher in California. The explosion injured four workers and damaged a…
JOHANNESBURG – Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram renewed their threat to use violence to disrupt Nigeria’s upcoming elections. In a video published by the SITE Intelligence Group, Boko Haram…
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Wednesday it is withholding from Israel some sensitive details of its nuclear negotiations with Iran because it is worried that Israeli government officials have…
A worker measures before cutting while working on the framing of a house under construction in Coppell, Texas. The Commerce Department reported that housing construction slowed in January.LM Otero/Associated Press…
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown is sworn in as Oregon governor by Oregon Chief Justice Thomas A. Balmer in Salem, Ore., Wednesday. John Kitzhaber, elected to an unprecedented fourth…
Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy has been picked by President Barack Obama to head the agency.Susan Walsh/Associated Press file photo Joseph Clancy will fill the position after four months…
The State Department said Tuesday the new policy would allow foreign governments that meet certain requirements – and pledge not to use the unmanned aircraft illegally – to buy the…
A new report from Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab released Monday said its researchers identified malicious programs or worms that infected computers in multiple countries. Targets appeared to be specifically…
