The proposed legalization initiative is one of more than a dozen that has been submitted in California for the November 2016 election. Because of the deep pockets, political connections and…
SEATTLE – Chipotle closed 43 of its Pacific Northwest locations after the chain’s third foodborne illness this year sickened about two dozen people – prompting renewed scrutiny of a company…
The company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S Gulf Coast says it wants to suspend its application for the project while it works with Nebraska…
President Barack Obama Monday is expected to discuss his plans to make it easier for former prison convicts to find employment once they are released.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press With his…
Oil field companies have cut bank on new orders for steel pipe and other equipment used to build new oil rigs because of the decline in oil and natural gas…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Fred Thompson, a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee for eight years who also acted in feature films and on television, has died, his family said in a…
Country flows into cemeteries to mark Voodoo day of the dead
“How about this time we nominate as Republicans a candidate as committed to conservative principles as Barack Obama is to liberal principles?” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told attendees of a…
Russia held a national mourning for the plane crash victims on Sunday. Mourners gathered at Dvortsovaya Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Metrojet charter crashed Saturday morning 23 minutes…
DENVER – An art project to drape fabric panels along a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River has passed another hurdle. The Colorado Supreme Court has denied a request for…
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that 124 of the 277 operations they watched in 2013-2014 included at least one medication error or drug-related incident that harmed a patient. Among…
Molinaro WESTON, Conn. – The month before his parents disappeared, police say Kyle Navin wrote that he had the “perfect plan” to get “$ for life.” Then, a few days…
This is the trash Darshan Karwat has produced in 2015.The Washington Post The average American produces more than 4 pounds of trash and recyclables per day, about 1,500 pounds per…
MANAMA, Bahrain – The United States ramped up its support for Syria’s opposition with a pledge of nearly $100 million in fresh aid on Saturday. The American promise of cash,…
IS claims it brought down plane with 217 passengers on board
A worker washes a car at Bob’s Car Wash in Roseville, Calif. To reduce water use, owner Nancy van Overbeek says the facility has upgraded its recycling and reclamation system…
Alyssa Crawford, left, helps her mother, Deidre Russsell, center, and Marsha Zwillig, evacuate after their home flooded on Bluff Springs Road Friday in Austin, Texas.Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman More than 16…
Polanski WARSAW, Poland – Roman Polanski beat a U.S. attempt to extradite him as a Polish judge ruled that the nation’s law forbids sending the filmmaker back to the United…
56 percent say clerks should issue same-sex marriage licenses
NASA photos captured images of a an icy eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The rings of Saturn are visible as the Cassini spacecraft prepared for a close flyby of the…
Economists are expecting consumer spending will remain on track in the fourth quarter after it slowed at the end of the third quarter. The Commerce Department said Friday the consumer…
President John F. Kennedy, with his daughter, Caroline, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, was the last president to die in office. A Washington Post analysis…
Aides say November will be key for him
Pakistani volunteers are working to recover from last week’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Mingora, Pakistan. The quake hit the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and killed more than 390 people.Naveed Ali/Associated Press “I…
WASHINGTON – Paul Ryan became the 54th speaker of the U.S. House on Thursday in a day of high political theater, a young new leader for a fractured Congress, charged…
