HOUSTON – Prosecutors on Saturday charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling up his patrol…
BANGKOK – Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough…
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Friday that incoming economic data and market developments will likely determine whether the Fed boosts interest rates in September.Susan Walsh/Associated Press file photo…
Census Bureau says Mexicans still dominate overall numbers
Rose Dormice on Saturday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, inspects her bedroom where the roof collapsed during high winds and heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Erika. The storm dissipated early Saturday,…
Residents mark 10th anniversary of hurricane
The National Security Agency is continuing to collect telephone data on millions of Americans while the program is being switched over to phone companies’ control.Patrick Semansky/Associated Press file photo The…
The site found in an online Harris Poll done July 31 to Aug. 4 that 80 percent of American adults 18 and older consider themselves good spellers, but they may…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expects quick improvements in…
Foes hope to block new regulation from taking effect in more states
Experts say it is difficult to determine in advance whether someone such as Vester Lee Flanagan II, who killed WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward in Moneta, Va.,…
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is taking behind-the-scenes steps to discourage Vice President Joe Biden from entering the presidential race.Cliff Owen/Associated Press file photo As Biden ponders a…
WARSAW, Poland – A Polish official said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in…
Walker CHARLESTON, S.C. – Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is calling for U.S. forces in Iraq to engage in direct combat to defeat “radical Islamic terrorists” in the Middle East.…
The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that as many as 200 people may be dead after a ship carrying migrants across to Europe sank off the coast of Libya.…
If left to their own devices, the dozen young ladies – ages 11 to 16 – attending Modeling Camp D.C. might have overdone it. Inspired by the incessant selfies of…
That’s what the Farmers’ Almanac predicts
Female 17 to 18 feet long, male about 15 feet
Former astronaut envisions tours of duty to planet
Tropical storm is ‘fighting for its life right now’
Former President George W. Bush on Friday greets juniors in a Spanish class at Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans. Bush is in town to commemorate the 10th…
MONACO – In an unprecedented gesture of repentance, Monaco’s Prince Albert II apologized Thursday for his country’s role in deporting Jews to Nazi camps – seven decades after police rounded…
President says story of New Orleans is ‘the story of America’
Kentucky official says she will ask Supreme Court to delay its mandate
LOS ANGELES – Planned Parenthood Federation of America defended its practices Thursday in a lengthy letter to congressional leaders and included a report by experts it hired who found undercover…
