The Giving USA report, released Tuesday, said Americans gave an estimated $335.17 billion to charity in 2013, up 3 percent from 2012 after adjustment for inflation. Reflecting the nation’s widening…
People walk along Washington’s Barracks Row. Neighborhoods that have a mix of businesses, homes, shops and restaurants are increasingly popular as people seek places to live where they can walk…
Congressional investigators are looking through former Internal Revenue Service worker Lois Lerner’s emails to determine who was involved in handling applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups.Laren Victoria Burke/Associated…
President Barack Obama is shown a 3-D printer by Andy Leer during his tour of TechShop Pittsburgh Tuesday in Pittsburgh. The president pledged to boost manufacturing in the U.S.Pablo Martinez…
Residents of Kibaoni, Kenya, barricade a road with burning tires as they protest the recent killings and the government’s failure to provide enough security against attacks by Somalia militants.Associated Press…
Iraqi security forces in uniforms and plainclothes head to Baghdad in the main road between Baghdad and Mosul, a day after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the…
MONROVIA, Liberia – Seven people believed to have the Ebola virus have died in recent days in the first deaths reported in the Liberian capital since the outbreak began, a…
As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation’s largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 percent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates…
President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that “when Americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes,…
A Rhode Island developer must remove this $1.8 million waterfront house that he mistakenly built on park land in Narragansett, R.I. The state’s Supreme Court ordered Four Twenty Corp. owner…
America expected to improve under Obamacare
The 5-4 decision upheld two lower courts that had ruled against so-called straw purchasers, even though the justices acknowledged that Congress left loopholes in gun control laws passed in the…
GM said in a statement Monday that the switches can rotate out of “run” if the key has excess weight and the car “experiences some jarring event,” such as hitting…
Al-Shabab, a Somali al-Qaida-linked group, claimed responsibility for the hours-long assault on Mpeketoni in which 48 people were killed. The attack began Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches…
President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation, a White House official said Monday.Associated Press…
Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States might consider using drone strikes to stem the advance of Sunni militants in Iraq.Lauren Victoria Burke/Associated Press President Barack Obama, in…
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde says Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen should increase the number of news conferences she holds every year as the agency unwinds its policies…
The January 2012 opinion in United States v. Jones set constitutional boundaries for law enforcement’s use of GPS devices to track the whereabouts of criminal suspects. But the different legal…
CHICAGO – At least six locations in three different states have entered official bids to house Barack Obama’s presidential library. Four of the confirmed bidders ahead of Monday’s deadline are…
National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown, left, tells Paula Hare, who is a transgender Vietnam War veteran, not to protest in front of his vehicle outside the state Capitol…
Casey Kasem and his wife, Jean, smile as he receives his own “Star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on April 27, 1981. Kasem, the smooth-voiced radio…
But less than three weeks after his May 27 announcement, there is a sudden burst of uncertainty surrounding the way Obama has moved to bring the two conflicts he inherited…
Wireless companies get creative when trying to close gap
Kasemdu1-i-syn NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A teenager on a Father’s Day visit to Newark to honor his deceased dad died, along with his mother and four others, when a fast-moving…
The pictures on a militant website appear to show masked fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing…
Paleontologist Pablo Gallina his team of Argentine paleontologists say the fossils they recovered in Argentina’s Patagonia region belongs to a new species of Diplodocid they named “Leinkupal laticauda” and evolved…
From companies that will send your pet’s remains to the heavens to those who will help scatter them at sea – or turn them into a lab-created gemstone for your…
