WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal emergency management officials said Wednesday they are investigating allegations of cronyism and other misconduct at the New Orleans office that is overseeing efforts to...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of cloudy skies and plowed into a muddy field on approach to Amsterdam on Wednesday, but remarkably some 125 people — the vast majority...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it — fertilization of eggs inside a female — took place as much as 30 million yearsearlier...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This isn't just another wag-the-tail story: The Obamas are getting a dog in April and are looking for a rescue Portuguese Water Dog. First lady Michelle Obama tells People magazine...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said Thursday. Richard Blumenthal said...

OTTAWA (AP) — President Barack Obama courted warmer relations with America's snowy northern neighbor Thursday, declining to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising he won't allow...

NEW YORK (AP) — An important psychological barrier gave way on Wall Street Thursday as the Dow Jones industrials fell to their lowest level in more than six years. The Dow broke through a bottom...

(AP) — Louisiana lawmakers are questioning how they can tap into the state's full share of federal stimulus money, suggesting they would consider sidestepping Gov. Bobby Jindal if he tries to turn...

PARIS (AP) — Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel declared Wednesday that it will not open the Gaza Strip's blockaded borders until Hamas militants free a captured Israeli soldier, dealing a blow to Egyptian efforts to broker...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions...

(AP) — Louisiana's budget picture has worsened for next year. The state's revenue forecasting panel decreased income projections for the upcoming 2009-10 budget year, saying the state will bring...