Cosby In an interview on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” that aired Saturday (where Cosby and his wife appeared to talk about loaning works to the National Museum of African Art), Cosby,…
A female grey seal looks for food after climbing out of a holding tank at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J.Wayne Parry/Associated Press Since March, the 100-pound female…
Officer Darren Wilson, 28, was the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9 in Ferguson. Mo. Police departments across the country are bracing for large demonstrations when…
OMAHA, Neb. – A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Nebraska on Saturday for treatment at a biocontainment unit where two other people with the…
BRISBANE, Australia – With an eye on China, President Barack Obama and the prime ministers of Japan and Australia are poised to commit their countries to closer cooperation on security…
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, speaks to about 150 U.S. military members during a town hall meeting Saturday in Baghdad. It was his…
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Vision Service Plan, the nation’s largest vision care company, hosted a week long program of free eye exams and brand-new glasses at its mobile clinics and at the VSP headquarters…
Al-Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside an oil refinery in Beiji, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Government forces on Friday drove Islamic State militants out…
WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House passed legislation Friday approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting the stage for a Senate showdown that mixes energy politics with a fight over Louisiana’s…
Customers shop at the Century 21 Department Store in Philadelphia. This year’s improving jobs picture and lower gasoline prices helped push retail sales up 0.3 percent in October.Matt Rourke/Associated Press…
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that he is ordering top-to-bottom changes in how the nation’s nuclear arsenal is managed, vowing to invest billions of dollars more to fix what ails…
WASHINGTON –The Secret Service response to an armed intruder who jumped the fence and raced into the White House was complicated by muted alarms and radios, thick bushes on the…
Congress urged not to oppose state initiatives
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. says it would be “short-sighted” of the United States to not doing everything it can to ensure that any aid the U.S. provides to countries helping…
This photo was taken by the European Space Agency’s Philae lander as it approached the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Wednesday. The space agency says the mission may not achieve all…
Massachusetts burg wants to ban sale of all smokes
Economists say lower gasoline prices act like a tax cut, leaving more money for consumers to spend on other things. Consumer spending is 70 percent of the U.S. economy. The…
This picture was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta’s Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately two miles from the 2.5-mile-wide 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.European Space Agency via Associated…
WESTMINSTER, Mass. – A public meeting on a central Massachusetts town’s proposed first-in-the-nation ban on tobacco and nicotine sales ended early because officials say the crowd was getting too unruly…
This picture was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta’s Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately two miles from the 2.5-mile-wide 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.European Space Agency via Associated…
