House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., joined by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in…
Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic policemen guard a convoy of international forensic experts, Dutch and Australian policemen and members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe mission in Ukraine,…
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue holds a photograph of his dead brother showing his bruises and injuries during an interview Wednesday in Salt Lake City. Trentadue’s quest to explain…
House, Senate committees work out deal; now faces both chambers
pegs runners with 30 percent lower risk of death than the sedentary
WASHINGTON – Even as they grapple with an immigration crisis at the border, White House officials are making plans to act before November’s mid-term elections to grant work permits to…
holiday on Friday marks end of Ramadan
expected to authorize billions of dollars in emergency spending
CAMARILLO, Calif. – A national survey finds the average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has plummeted 9 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $3.58. That’s the largest…
prohibit secret filming documenting abuse of animals
Meanwhile, Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk
of victim had also died from virus
Republicans push for $1B in solutions
Supreme Court had ruled lethal injection is OK
Fast-food workers vow civil disobedience VILLA PARK, Ill. – Fast-food workers from across the country voted in suburban Chicago to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation by…
Officials don’t know who fired missile
Volunteer Theodore Davi prepares a display with items excavated over the last eight years from the Avery hive site in Groton, Conn. Several hundred artifacts have been unearthed and some…
More than 200 French army soldiers are guarding the site of an Air Algerie plane crash in northern Mali. The soldiers have recovered a black boxt that will be examined…
WASHINGTON – The House has passed a bill that would gradually increase the child tax credit and make it available to more families with higher incomes. But millions of low-income…
Putin Throughout the Ukrainian crisis, U.S. and European sanctions had mainly targeted a handful of individuals, sparing economic ties. Then last week, the U.S. imposed penalties on some of Russia’s…
EL-ARISH, Egypt – Gunmen shot and killed two senior Egyptian officers in the country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, where the military has been trying to quell a spreading insurgency by Islamic…
A survey out this week from Bankrate.com found that for long-term investments, Millennials prefer cash three times as much as the stock market. Instead of going for higher returns, they’re…
