UNITED NATIONS (AP) — American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely attacked the United States and major West European nations...
NOVATO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California raided a large marijuana farm in western Marin County after deer hunters tipped them off to the operation.
Sheriff's Lt. Doug Pittman says...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is backing up his campaign endorsements with cash.
Sitting on a hefty campaign account nearing $8 million and with little chance of losing his re-election bid, Jindal has...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California appeals court has rejected a transgender inmate's attempt to force the state to pay for her sex reassignment surgery and to move her to a women's prison.
The First...
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan Wednesday, halting trains and leaving 13 people dead or missing in south-central regions before grazing a crippled nuclear plant and heaping rain...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Daycare centers in Sweden have started using GPS systems and other electronic tracking devices to keep tabs on children during excursions — a practice that has raised ethical...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's annual job growth was just about unchanged in August.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission says there were 30,300 more non-farm jobs last month than in August 2010. That's...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Libya returned to Tripoli Wednesday to lead a newly reopened American Embassy in a post-Moammar Gadhafi era.
Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived in Tripoli,...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Even as federal officials laud the end of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay troops, Justice Department lawyers are trying to dissuade a federal appeals court from deciding...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan graffiti artists are taking advantage of newfound freedom to make fun of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi on the streets of Tripoli.
For 42 years, the authoritarian...
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Lawmakers in Veracruz state approved a law Tuesday designed to lessen terrorism charges filed against a man and a woman for allegedly causing a panic by tweeting rumors of...
