Biden said in a radio interview that he foresees Democratic victories in closely contested races in Alaska, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Georgia and a runoff election in Louisiana. He…
The GOP easily won the 218 seats required and was on track to match or surpass the 246 seats they held in President Harry S. Truman’s administration more than 60…
Smaller, fuel-efficient helping vehicles gain fans
A woman prepares to mark her ballot at a polling site Tuesday in Mount Kisco, N.Y.Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Republican Mitch McConnell led the way to a new Senate majority, dispatching…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., addresses a group of supporters during a rally in Louisville, Ky. The senator won a sixth term and could be the next majority leader…
Daniel Mulcahey mans the ballot box as a resident casts his vote in an old-fashioned wooden ballot box at the polling place in Brooks, Maine, on Election Day.Robert F. Bukaty/Associated…
Dozens of voters were lined up at the door as soon as the polling place at Chief Joseph School of the Arts opened at 8 a.m. in Meridian on Tuesday.KATHERINE…
Russian nationalists on Tuesday carry Orthodox icons during a march in Moscow in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting with Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine.Alexander Zemlianichencko/Associated Press Petro Poroshenko said…
VIENNA – Russia has informed the United States that it will boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday, potentially stripping the meeting of one…
A sample of marijuana is shown inside the dispensary at Collective Awakenings on in Portland, Ore.Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian Oregon will join the company of Colorado and Washington state, where voters…
WASHINGTON – Now that power has changed hands in the Senate, there are two scenarios for what is likely to get done in Washington over the next couple of years:…
Americans fed up with both parties’ politicians
Protesters steal a police motorbike outside the parliament building in Burkina Faso as they protest against longtime President Blaise Compaore in the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.Theo Renaut/Associated Press The…
The most senior officer to be relieved of command was Col. Carl Jones, the No. 2 commander of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, in…
Saudi pilots sit in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. U.S. Arab allies Egypt, Saudi…
Law enforcement officers look at the wreckage near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. on Saturday, Nov 1, 2014. The…
A doorman holds the door for an employee entering One World Trade Center Monday in New York. Thirteen years after the Sept. 111 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center…
WILLISTON, N.D. – Oil has averaged $96 a barrel over the past four years, fueling more drilling, more hiring and bigger appetites in North Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma and elsewhere. Now…
Failure to act could set course for ‘irreversible’ global impacts
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August for safety –…
While the 1,300-plus wells currently on the Fort Berthold Reservation produce about a third of North Dakota’s daily output, the Native American tribe receives a only fraction of money generated…
CAIRO – An Egyptian court Saturday convicted eight men for “inciting debauchery” after their appearance in an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat, sentencing each of them to…
