This frame grab image from a Metropolitan Police Department surveillance video shows Secret Service agents in their government vehicle driving through the secured area and nudging a temporary barrier at…
Shoppers walk past an advertisement for retailer “bebe” along Lincoln Road Mall, a pedestrian street featuring retail stores and outdoor cafes, in Miami Beach, Fla. The Labor Department on Monday…
NEW YORK – Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly says he thinks television viewers trust him despite accusations he stretched the truth when he was a young reporter covering straight…
Ellen Pao leaves the Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break in her trial in San Francisco. Pao has said she was abruptly fired after filing her lawsuit alleging gender…
Inspector general finds U.S. visa favoritism
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no…
Congress wants reassurances a bomb isn’t possible
Steve Helber/Associated Press file photo<br><br>University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Charlottesville police said Monday…
A “For Sale” sign pokes out of about 4 feet of snow in the front yard of a home listed in Derry, N.H. The National Association of Realtors reported Monday…
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani speaks at the Pentagon during a Monday ceremony. Afghanistan’s president thanked U.S. troops and taxpayers for their sacrifices in nearly 14 years of war.Cliff OwEN/Associated Press…
The Supreme Court is weighing a free-speech challenge to Texas’ decision to refuse to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag.Texas Department of Motor Vehicles via Associated Press…
Welsh residents may be the closest genetic matches to Britain’s earliest settlers, according to new research of DNA samples from British and Northern Island residents. Here a group of poets…
Galaxy may be rife with planets that are just right
IOTO, Japan – More than 30 veterans flown in from the U.S. island territory of Guam toured the black-sand beaches of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary…
LOS ANGELES – The police shooting in Georgia earlier this month of a naked, unarmed man with bipolar disorder spotlights the growing number of violent confrontations between police and the…
Machete wielded, Molotov cocktails on hand before fatally shot
Senior vice president Scott Delucchi looks over a recent DNA dog test result at the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA in Burlingame, Calif.In Eric Risberg/Associated Press The Peninsula Humane Society…
Pierre Mayor Laurie Gill celebrates her city being named the new “Boardwalk” in an upcoming version of the 80-year-old board game, Monopoly, that will feature U.S. cities.Patrick M. Callahan/ Litzy…
Poll also shows majority favors pot legalization
Residents and visitors to Norway’s Svalbard islands were treated the best view of Friday’s solar eclipse, which darkened much of northern Europe for several minutes.Haakon Mosvold Larsen/Associated Press The most…
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is suggesting it could reconsider its plan to remove nearly all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016. Jeff Eggers of the White…
Russian: ‘Main work’ expected to be finished soon
Boehner On the surface, the Republican leader’s announcement Friday that he’ll visit Israel looks like a jab at the White House. But a congressional aide, who spoke on condition of…
The grants, announced Friday in Georgia by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, come as the Republican Congress is exploring ways to cut the program, which cost $74 billion last year –…
Many underground water reserves are already running low, while rainfall patterns are predicted to become more erratic with climate change. As the world’s population grows to an expected 9 billion…
LONDON – A North Korean envoy says his country has developed nuclear missiles and is prepared to use them at any time. North Korean Ambassador to Britain Hyun Hak Bong…
