MARYSVILLE, Wash. – A student opened fire Friday in a high school cafeteria north of Seattle, killing at least one person and shooting several others in the head, officials said.…
poll shows many Americans worried about Islamic State
Ferguson, Mo., protesters defy a police curfew following the shooting death of Michael Brown in August. Police are preparing for more protests in advance of a grand jury decision on…
Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, associate director of infection prevention and control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room in the Emergency Room of the…
Kansas, Montana, South Carolina refusing to issue licenses
Shooter was seeking passport to travel to Mideast
PYONGYANG, North Korea – The United States government must make a formal apology to secure the freedom of two Americans who remain imprisoned in North Korea after the release this…
WASHINGTON – Legislation to stop suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving U.S. Social Security benefits will be introduced soon, the latest response to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions…
A photograph shows Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson attending a City Council meeting. An autopsy report supports some of Wilson’s account of how Ferguson resident Michael Brown died.City of…
Bob Pack poses at the headstone of his children, Troy, 10 and Alana, 7. in Lafayette, Calif. Pack’s children were killed 11 years ago when a prescription drug-abusing woman drove…
Catherine Devine, 22, reads instant messages on her laptop at her home in Kings Park, N.Y. Devine had her first of several brushes with online harassment in seventh grade, before…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Days after Nigeria’s military raised hopes with the announcement that Islamic extremists had agreed to a cease-fire, Boko Haram is still fighting and there is no word…
The program will start Monday in six states that represent 70 percent of people arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC…
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas staff line the drive that exits the emergency room as they wait for an ambulance carrying Ebola patient Nina Pham to depart. Pham, a nurse…
WASHINGTON – Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades,…
Fowle Jeffrey Fowle, 56, a father of three from Ohio, was flown from North Korea aboard a U.S. military plane to a U.S. naval base in Guam, said Marie Harf,…
Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, listens during an event sponsored by The Washington Post to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate.Alex Brandon/Associated Press file Bradlee died…
An FBI spokeswoman says agents helped bring the girls back to Denver after stopping them in Germany. Spokeswoman Suzie Payne says they’re safe and have been reunited with their families.…
White House rejects ban on travel from West Africa nations
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s leader has claimed that “external forces” are participating in student-led pro-democracy protests that have occupied parts of this financial capital for more than three weeks…
Cuba’s president contributes nearly 400 medical staff
Smoke from a fire rises following a strike in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group.Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press In a statement, U.S. Central…
Dr. David L. Callender, president of the University of Texas Medical Branch, Friday answers questions about the disposal of medical waste from Dallas’ Presbyterian Hospital and the hospital’s ability to…
