With Election Day about a month away, more than half those in the survey said Washington can do little to effectively lessen threats such as climate change, mass shootings, racial…
A student pro-democracy protester monitors the news on her smartphone as she and others sit outside Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s office on Sunday in Hong Kong. In an…
Farm workers, from left, Carlos Sanchez, Francisco Zuniga, and Alejandro Zuniga, pick tobacco leaves on Chris Haskins’ farm in Chatham, Va.Johnny Clark/Associated Press The very last buyout checks, totaling about…
Hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas…
INDIANAPOLIS – The parents of an Indiana man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him, saying in a video statement Saturday…
Duncan Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated, didn’t provide any further details about his condition, and a hospital spokeswoman, Candace White, didn’t immediately respond…
The tide began to turn in mid-August, when U.S. airstrikes pushed them from key Iraqi battlegrounds. Then, on Aug. 19, the group released a video that showed the beheading of…
A Kurdish peshmerga soldier prays at a battle field in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, on Wednesday after Kurdish fighters took control of the northern village from the Islamic State group.HADI MIZBAN/Associated Press…
BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Saturday by attending prayers for a key Muslim holiday at a mosque in the capital, Damascus, hours after…
Duvalier Duvalier died Saturday from a heart attack at the home of a friend in Port-au-Prince where he had been staying, said his lawyer, Reynold Georges, and several officials in…
EL PASO, Texas – Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting “a showdown” at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full implementation of a law that has closed more than…
Residents and pro-Beijing supporters tear down a pro-democracy activist tent in Kowloon’s crowded Mong Kok district Friday in Hong Kong. Clashes broke out Friday as Hong Kong residents and pro-Beijing…
Illinois Department of Corrections employment recruiter Forrest Ashby, left, speaks to students attending The Foot in the Door Career Fair at the University of Illinois in Springfield, Ill.Seth Perlman/Associated Press…
The Supreme Court Wednesday did not agree to take up the same-sex issue, although experts say they expect the justices will agree to decide whether gay marriages are legal before…
A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division looks out from the North Portico of the White House in Washington.Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press file photo The Obama administration has called for…
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s parliament gave the government new powers Thursday to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq, and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible…
WASHINGTON – The United States announced Thursday it was partially lifting its ban on sales of weaponry to Vietnam to help its maritime security in a sign of deepening ties…
WASHINGTON – It’s not Obamacare or climate change. It’s not yet terrorism or fear of the Islamic State group. Those issues are on the minds of voters as they begin…
