Experts say parents can set the tone for children when they experience wildlife and the outdoors by not getting nervous about bugs, snakes and other creatures. U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
Houston police officers learn learn how to apply a tourniquet to a leg at the police academy in Houston. Cities across the country are training and equipping police officers to…
Neal Bredehoeft of Alma, Mo., is supporting a measure to amend Missouri’s constitution guaranteeing farmers the right to farm. The Missouri effort and others like it in other states is…
Trump Plaza owners expect their casino will close ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Atlantic City’s crumbling casino market disintegrated even further Saturday as owners of the Trump Plaza casino said they…
state leaders would abide by U.S. Supreme Court decision
Presidential election votes to be retallied after accusations of ballot-box stuffing
Gypsies not likely ‘to integrate’ into French, European daily life, culture
Officers relay their answers to congressional investigators
follows similar moves across the U.S.
The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University in North Dakota has been archiving notes, letters and photographs of Roosevelt since 2007 and is working to open his presidential library…
Protective booms surround a water intake system on Lake Sakakawea near Mandaree, N.D. A nearby pipeline spilled around a million gallons of saltwater recently.Tyler Bell/Associated Press file photo State Rep.…
Putin The visit was focused on developing economic and commercial ties as well as investment in projects, including energy, transportation and civil aviation. “Today, cooperation with Latin American states is…
TOKYO – Japan’s top government spokesman said Friday that an Asian regional summit in Beijing this November would be a good opportunity for the leaders of Japan and China to…
An Israeli soldier rests on a mobile artillery unit on the Israel-Gaza border Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has talked to several world leaders about his country’s…
A retired Army general says many officers involved in the response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were not even aware there was a CIA facility…
David and Marianne Trujillo leave the Vetaran Affairs facility in El Paso, Texas. Some members of Congress are worried that a recently passed bill to let veterans go to doctors…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government ran a monthly budget surplus in June, putting it on course to record the lowest annual deficit since 2008. The Treasury Department said Friday that…
A new report details three incidents over the past 10 years in which mistakes at government research labs could have led to the release of deadly viruses. The Centers for…
Kevin Whitney’s daughter Katie, right, and groom Frank Celli celebrate their wedding in College Station, Texas, in a photo from Whitney’s cellphone, which was lost in October 2013 when it…
Marchers head toward the Department of Homeland Security in El Paso, Texas, Thursday during a protest of U.S. immigration policies.Victor Calzada/El Paso Times The developments indicated that Obama faces an…
Economists say consumers probably didn’t spend as much as they expected in the second quarter, a sign they are still reluctant to spend freely. Business economists Friday cut their second-quarter…
Israel deployed an Iron Dome air defense battery in Jerusalem for the first time Thursday to protect the city against missile attacks from the Gaza Strip. Israel has suffered no…
BERLIN – Germany on Thursday demanded Washington’s top spy in Berlin leave the country as a new round of allegations of U.S. espionage worsened the friction between the two allies.…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has talked to outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an effort to resolve disputes over election results in a vote to replace Karzai. Both…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is filling a critical diplomatic post by tapping a career diplomat experienced in eastern Europe to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia. Obama’s announcement…
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks about President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. Top House and Senate Republicans say a compromise is possible on Obama’s request…
Testimony from military officials suggest a four-man team would not have arrived in time to help defend against a second attack by militants on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in…
