WASHINGTON (AP) — A once bipartisan bill to fund the government is limping out of Congress, dismissed by the White House as a vestige of the Bush administration and derided by Republicans as an example...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An influential former Iranian prime minister said on Tuesday that he will run in the upcoming presidential election, posing what could be a serious pro-reform challenge to the...
When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a lifesaving, "pay it forward" chain. His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in 2007...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's U.S. senators added hundreds of millions of dollars in pet projects to the $410 billion spending bill awaiting President Barack Obama's signature, ranking them near...
BRUSSELS (AP) — A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global...
DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Life for Tibetans under Chinese rule has been "hell on earth," the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday, attacking Beijing in a speech to mark 50 years since the failed uprising that...
CHICAGO (AP) — Striking new research shows dying blacks and Hispanics have much steeper treatment costs than whites, sobering evidence that racial health-care differences continue right up until...
CAIRO (AP) — A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not her close relatives, drawing new criticism for...
Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime — in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like. But they can't be certain....
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal says he disagrees with President Obama on stem cell research. The president Monday cleared the way for increases in federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, arguing...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she will try to settle a dispute between state and federal authorities over how much the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is now capable of producing atomic weapons, Israel's top militaryintelligence officer said Sunday, sounding the highest-level warning that Israel's arch-enemy has achieved independent...
