Neither announcement caused much of a stir in newsrooms across the United States. The Associated Press moved a 315-word dispatch about the developments. The New York Times carried a brief…
DETROIT – Two U.S. senators are questioning why the nation’s auto safety regulators are letting car companies recall vehicles only in limited regions when a safety problem could happen anywhere.…
Thick smoke rises from a fire following a strike in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group.Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press On Wednesday, the…
An armored vehicle belonging to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rushes to a bombing site as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city…
FORT WORTH, Texas – The nation’s top-disease fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that an American nurse might not have been infected with Ebola if a special response team had been sent…
U.S. urges allies to focus on fighting Islamic State
A Texas Christian University yearbook photo shows Nina Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who became the first person to contract the disease within the United…
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, left, looks on as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference in New York. President Barack…
A Protect Environmental in Dallas employee sanitizes his hands outside the apartment of a health-care worker, who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan and tested positive for the disease in…
Syrian Kurd Kiymet Ergun, 56, gestures, in Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, as thick smoke rises after an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani,…
FERGUSON, Mo. – Pounding rain and tornado watches didn’t deter hundreds of protesters Monday outside Ferguson police headquarters, where they stayed for almost four hours to mark how long 18-year-old…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes a point as he speaks during a visit to the Galveston National Lab Tuesday in Galveston, Texas.Pat Sullivan/Associated Press A judge set the date Monday…
A hazmat worker looks up while finishing up cleaning outside an apartment building of a hospital worker Sunday in Dallas. The Texas health care worker, who was in full protective…
Halliburton, Dow Chemical and Merck & Co. lost at least 4.3 percent to pace declines in energy, commodity and health-care companies that led the market lower. Spirit Airlines, United Continental…
GLENDALE, Ariz. – The president of the country’s largest Native American reservation appears to be a supporter of the NFL team from Washington, D.C. Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, wearing…
Holed up in an industrial area of squat, concrete buildings on Kobani’s eastern edges, the outgunned Kurds could do little to repel the attack, recalled Dalil Boras, one of the…
3 people with virus at hospital
New Jersey officials have issued a mandatory quarantine order for members of an NBC crew that was exposed to a cameraman with Ebola. The order went into effect Friday night…
Two narratives have competed for attention since Campaign 2014 got underway. One says, rightly, that the political environment favors the Republicans. Voters are unhappy. Most of the competitive races are…
issues are hoped to be tackled nationally
TRIPOLI, Libya – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled Saturday to Libya to support a reconciliation process between warring factions there, calling on a renegade general fighting Islamist militias in its…
95% of travelers from affected countries land at 5 airfields
poll suggests many Americans don’t understand full extent of wealth gap
