BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union broke a political deadlock Monday and extended for two years a 500 million euro ($680 million) food program that benefits 18 million of its poorest citizens. Without...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of Central American women who traveled through Mexico for two weeks in search of missing relatives ended the journey with the discovery of one of their sons, a spokeswoman...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Several hundred protesters, some wearing goggles and gas masks, marched past authorities in a downtown street Sunday, hours after riot police forced Occupy Portland demonstrators...

(AP) — First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Nov. 5 increased from the previous week's total. The state labor department figures released Monday show the initial...

(AP) — A 70-year-old Thibodaux man is the Louisiana Lottery's latest millionaire. Robert Thibodaux Sr. said he regularly buys $5 worth of tickets every Saturday — two Lotto tickets, two Powerball...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 a month for the last two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A storm hits Connecticut and causes hundreds of thousands to lose power. Utility companies take a week or longer to restore it. Public outrage leads to state investigations....

ATLANTA (AP) — In the past few months, the roster of companies in a revamped, voluntary immigration enforcement program has expanded by nearly one-fifth as the Obama administration steps up employer...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors are investigating suspicions that the killings of 10 people over a seven-year period were the work of far-right extremists. Federal prosecutors said Friday they were...

MARION (AP) — Authorities say the high prices being paid for scrap metal and copper are keeping Union Parish sheriff's investigators busy. The New Star reports that four people were arrested Thursday...

(AP) — Southern University is proposing merging eight academic colleges and schools into five as the university begins a reorganization process. The proposed plan would consolidate engineering with...

VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — His eyes tearing up with emotion, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos embraced his rescuers Saturday and said he had wondered whether he would survive a two-day kidnapping...