Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday before the Republicans in the Senate shot down an effort to raise the…
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll may be bad news for Democratic candidates in this fall’s congressional elections. The poll showed the president’s approval rating has slipped to 41 percent,…
No group has claimed responsibility for two car bombings that killed scores in the Syrian city of Homs. The attack came hours after a mortar strike in Damascus killed 14.SANA/Associated…
KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai accused British and U.S. forces Tuesday of continuing to operate “illegal” detention facilities in the country, another volley in the rancorous disagreement between the…
Knoxdu1-i-syn Presiding Judge Alessandro Nencini concluded in a 337-page document that the evidence ‘’inevitably leads to the upholding of the criminal responsibility” against Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele…
Emissions rise above the coal-fired Colstrip Steam Electric Station in Colstrip, Mont. More than two dozen states will have to adopt new rules limiting emissions from coal-fired power plants after…
McALESTER, Okla. – An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the…
Three of the victims were in critical condition at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital. Two of them – a 28-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman – were still in surgery with life-threatening…
Self-driving vehicles years from large-scale production
Pro-Russian masked armed men guard the city hall in Kostyantynivka, 22 miles south of Slovyansk, in eastern Ukraine Monday after masked militants with automatic weapons seized the building. Ukraine’s acting…
MINYA, Egypt – The Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and more than 680 other people were sentenced to death Monday, stemming from last year’s post-coup violence in the latest mass trial…
Privacy in digital age will up before the Supeme Court
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine – Eight European military observers held prisoner by pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine were marched out under armed guard on Sunday to give public assurances they weren’t being…
marked third anniversary of a deadly 122-tornado day
Pope Francis Pope Francis on Sunday declared two of his predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made more historic by the presence of…
“What’s hard for us isn’t paying the bills,” Candice Johnson, 24, said. “It’s just trying to get our feet in the door” with the combined expense of application fees, security…
Zurich Mayor Corine Mauch, center, is one of a growing number of American-born citizens who are renouncing their U.S. citizenship. Mauch, who is talking to other members of the Zurich…
40 years after 1974 revolution, citizens feel their rights ‘confiscated’
du1-i-syn In those two states, 77 percent of residents said their state was the best or one of the best possible states to live in. Among the worst places to…
1 million expected to show up for event
President trying to keep Chinese from overtly supporting Russia
Tornadoes damage homes, injure more than a dozen MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – Residents, meteorologists and emergency officials in eastern North Carolina were surveying the damage Saturday from multiple tornadoes that…
A man mourns over the flag-draped coffin of his son during a funeral procession Saturday for five militia members of a Shiite group, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the…
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