PARIS (AP) - Western powers are preparing a tough response if Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime deploys chemical or biological weapons in its civil war, key European officials warned Monday. Syria's...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box...

MADRID (AP) - Authorities said 160 would-be migrants tried to break into a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the north African coast Monday, and Spain's foreign minister worried more may head to Spanish islands...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered they may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard...

LA VISITE NATIONAL PARK, Haiti (AP) - Police officers and other officials went to one of Haiti's few national parks with weapons and orders for hundreds of squatters to vacate the homes and farms they...

LONDON, (AP) - It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record. Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle- released...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Rapidly expanding wildfires across a broad swath of southern Montana have caused injuries and burned homes, buildings and vehicles, authorities said Thursday, as firefighters struggled...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Since Katrina, the Army Corps has worked at breakneck speed - and at a cost of billions of dollars - to install new floodgates, pumps, floodwalls and levees across New Orleans. The work...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - About 270 miners were charged Thursday with the murders of 34 striking colleagues who were shot by police officers, authorities said, a development that could further...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oil giant BP says it will donate $1 million to support relief efforts related to Hurricane Isaac. BP says the donation will be made to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army and...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 100-year-old man who was attempting to back his Cadillac out of a grocery store parking lot struck and injured 11 people, nine of them children. The accident in front of a South Los...

The great American essayist H.L. Mencken said there existed to every problem a solution - neat, plausible or wrong. Within this spectrum of possible outcomes is where the United States now finds itself...