KABUL (AP) — NATO troops killed a senior Taliban commander and nine other militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, striking a blow in the group's heartland where the U.S. plans to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two astronauts, who were teaching math and science to middle school students just five years ago, went on a spacewalk together Monday, their path cleared of dangerous...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old. A legislative committee heard...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An Oakland police officer shot during a traffic stop died Sunday, bringing the number of officers killed on the deadliest day in the department's history to four, police said....
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top adviser to President Barack Obama says the government plans to leverage $100 billion to ease the fallout on the nation's financial system from banks' bad assets. Christina...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The British Embassy said Sunday it had received a new video showing one of five Britons taken hostage nearly two years ago allegedly by Shiite extremists that the U.S. believes are...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt will soon file an official request with U.S. authorities to return a 3,000-year-old wooden coffin illegally smuggled out of the country more than a century ago, the country's top...
CHICAGO (AP) — As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago's Pink Monkey gentleman's...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Osama bin Laden urged Somalis on Thursday to overthrow their new president, issuing a statement that clearly outlines al-Qaida‘s ambitions in a nation long feared to be...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's military has captured the security and operations chief of the nation's most powerful drug cartel, officials said Thursday, delivering another punishing blow only weeks...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge gives Louisiana 15 days to add the names of both fathers to the birth certificate of a boy born in Shreveport and adopted by a gay couple from out-of-state. Louisiana...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan will visit New Orleans on Friday to get a first-hand look at reforms the Obama administration is pushing nationally, reforms that remain a work...
