The Internal Revenue Service’s proposals to push more of its taxpayer assistance efforts online is drawing concerns from the agency’s in-house taxpayer advocate.Susan Walsh/Associated Press file photo As part of…
Navy Adm. John Richardson says the Navy must stay involved in the war against terrorism. However, he also wants to build a new generation of nuclear missile submarines because of…
The Islamic State has claimed credit for a bomb that is suspected of blowing apart a Russian Metrojet plane over Egypt in October 2015. The Russian aircraft was carrying 224…
The U.S. Food and Drug and Administration is conducting an investigation of Chipolte Mexican Grill Inc.’s handling of a norovirus outbreak at one of its restaurants in California.Gene J. Puskar/Associated…
North Koreans watch a news broadcast Wednesday outside Pyongyang Railway Station in Pyongyang, North Korea, announcing the government claim that it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.Kim Kwang Hyon/Associated…
Police in Cologne, Germany, are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects in a series of sexual assaults that took place in the city on New Year’s Eve. Many…
SAN FRANCISCO –- Forced by drought to become miserly with water, Californians were warned against reverting to old habits Tuesday as the first of several storms spawned by a record-tying…
Japanese give a lot of thought to their lavatories
Tonya Couch, left, has agreed to be extradited to Texas where she faces charges of hindering the apprehension of a felon. Couch is suspected of helping her son, Ethan, 18,…
Iranian demonstrators burn homemade U.S. and Israeli flags during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, to protest the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a…
Demonstrators came to the frozen high desert of eastern Oregon to contest the prison sentences of two ranchers who set fire to federal land, but their ultimate goal is to…
“It’s desperate stuff from an organization that really does do the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts and people can see that again today,” he said. “But this is an…
These fiery sentiments were measured by NBC, Survey Monkey and Esquire over the course of four days in November, in an online poll of 3,257 American adults aptly called the…
Masa A military judge convicted Masa last year of sexual abuse of a child and production of child pornography, according to court records and other documents detailing the case. Under…
Trader Gregory Rowe works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. U.S. stocks are opening 2016 on a grim note, dropping sharply after a plunge in…
NEW DELHI – A 6.7 magnitude earthquake left at least eight dead, scores more injured and houses and buildings flattened in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur early Monday morning.…
Opening his final year in office on an aggressive note, Obama summoned his attorney general and FBI chief to the Oval Office to firm up a set of measures he…
This horn, believed to have been owned by Alexander Hamilton, is photographed at Antique NJ in Closter, N.J. The horn will be put up for auction on Jan. 11.Julio Cortez/Associated…
Protesting rancher calls for militias to aid occupation of wildlife refuge
Cancer-causing metal finding its way to faucets
President Barack Obama waves as he walks with his daughter, Malia Obama, across the South Lawn on return to the White House in Washington on Sunday after their family vacation…
At least that’s how Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has decided to approach manscaping. Wolfe told KTVB-TV that after years of feeling ashamed of his body hair, he asked…
The move came hours after protesters stormed and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and followed harsh criticism by Iran’s top leader of the Saudis’ execution of Sheikh…
FILE – In this Thursday Nov 12, 2015 file photo, Swedish police officers perform identity control among the passengers aboard the train from Copenhagen at the Swedish end of the…
All of it is aimed at people like Jocelyn Beyer, a Republican from the small town of Sully in rural central Iowa, who says despite the many months of political…
KINCAID, Ill. – The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the silt a massive cleanup and recovery…
