CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Prompted by the shortages of available drugs for lethal injections, Wyoming lawmakers are considering changing state law to permit execution of condemned inmates by firing squad. A…
But he knows it will be a while before he achieves anything as satisfying as his victory Wednesday in the National Geographic Bee, which came after a close call last…
Ron Owen and his son, Ryker, 4, swim at the Durango Community Recreation Center this winter.JENNAYE DERGE/Durango Herald file photo Competency with all five – floating or treading water for…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is naming five Democrats to sit on a Republican-led House select committee that will take another look at the terrorist attack on the U.S.…
BP cites a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals justice’s dissent that the appellate court’s refusal to reconsider the oil company’s settlement agreement makes the judicial system party to “fraud”…
Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, left, won an easy primary fight to get to run as the GOP candidate for the Senate. McConnell voted with his wife, Elaine Chao, center,…
JOS, Nigeria – Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 118 people, wounding dozens and…
Bosnian officials are warning residents of flood-hit areas to only drink bottled or boiled water because of the threat of disease from animal carcasses. Thousands of heads of livestock drowned…
The Justice Department says Chinese hackers used “spear-phishing” scams to trick company employoees into infecting their own computers so corporate technology could be stolen. This building in Shanghai, China, houses…
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a critical Senate vote and under court order, the Obama administration signaled it will publicly reveal a secret memo describing its legal justification for…
A Thai soldier mans a machine gun atop a military vehicle outside the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order after soldiers were sent in to seize the center…
Ashley Wilson, left, and Lindsay Vandermay, both 29, got a marriage license at Philadelphia City Hall Tuesday, shortly after a federal judge overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage.Matt Slocum/Associated…
Armed with new technologies, including mobile devices that tap into cellphone data in real time, dozens of local and state police agencies are capturing information about thousands of cellphone users…
MEXICO CITY – The bodies of 16 people were found in two different areas of a northern Mexico border state where a surge in violence in recent weeks has triggered…
Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter is leading a revolt that threatens to pit rival militia groups against each other in the African country. Forces loyal to Hifter stormed parliament Sunday and…
countries deny it spies on the other
Small coffee producer Hector Perez show coffee beans damaged by the roya fungus in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala. The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers…
Scientist: Fires in California, Arizona are ‘clear examples’
Michael Blowen, president of Old Friends farm in central Kentucky, with Little Silver Charm, a miniature horse. Blowen runs the farm in Georgetown, Ky., that takes in racehorses past their…
Back in 2003, Clifford, an underwater archaeological explorer, and his crew discovered a tantalizing shipwreck off the coast of Haiti. The wreck sat in exactly the spot where Clifford reckoned…
The girl’s nearly complete skeleton was discovered by chance in 2007 by expert divers who were mapping water-filled caves north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of…
Following Houston were Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Diego and Chicago, the postal Service found. Nearly 5,600 postal employees were attacked by a dog last year. “There’s a myth we often…
Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, grew up in Ogden, Utah, far from any NFL city, and became a fan of the Los Angeles Rams because…
The green sea turtle named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” swims with its prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel.Ariel Schalit/Associated Press The sea turtle,…
trying to end affirmative action while appealing to minorities
Chicago Arab activist under scrutiny from past DETROIT – A Chicago activist might plead guilty in Detroit to failing to tell U.S. immigration officials about her conviction in a deadly…
2014 will be close race; 6 seats can sway Congress
