SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The federal government is making available up to $50 million in drought relief funds for Western states, with the largest portion earmarked for parched California, U.S. Secretary…
Houthi Shiite Yemenis celebrate in Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this week. The rebel group completed its takeover of the country Friday by announcing it was dissolving Parliament and will run the…
BEIRUT – A statement attributed to Islamic State extremists claimed that an American woman held hostage by the group was killed on Friday, allegedly in a Jordanian airstrike on the…
House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. at the start of the panel’s third public hearing to investigate the 2012…
Job applicant Rafael Ferrer, 49, left, on Friday shakes hands with a representative of the Hilton Bentley Miami Beach hotel during a job fair at the Hospitality Institute in Miami.Lynn…
Relatives of three Japanese hostages being held in Iraq bow before reporters in Tokyo. When the young Japanese anti-war activists were taken hostage in Iraq and later freed in 2004,…
“It effectively raises taxes on the middle class, removes bedrock protections for consumers and chips away at key coverage benefits that Americans rely on,” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, top…
NEW YORK – A diminished RadioShack will live on, but its future may lie with Sprint. Struggling consumer electronics chain RadioShack, founded nearly a century ago, filed for Chapter 11…
Jordanian Air Force fighter jets fly over the funeral of slain Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at his home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan on Wednesday. Jordan increased its…
Companies asked to develop systems to intercept aircraft
Plan would offer tax credits to buy insurance
Clerics call burning of prisoner ‘foreign’ to Islam
CAIRO – An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to life in prison after convicting them Wednesday of taking part…
WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats pressed senior Obama administration officials Wednesday to move swiftly to provide aircraft parts, night-vision equipment and other weapons to Jordan after a video purporting to…
Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, look on as President Barack Obama delivers remarks on his budget proposal during a cabinet meeting in…
Leah Russin, of Palo Alto, holds her son, Leo, 16 months, as she speaks Wednesday in support of proposed legislation that would require parents to vaccinate all school children. If…
U.S. trying to wean allies from Russian oil, gas
Critics fear House of Commons vote could lead to ‘designer babies’
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – December’s rains enabled Californians to finally meet Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for a 20 percent reduction in monthly water consumption, but more restrictions loom as the state…
ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s new anti-bailout government confirmed it will hold meetings with lead lender – and critic – Germany this week after markets and European governments reacted with relief…
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Rules Committee member Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., center, and newly elected Rep. Barbara Comstock R-Va., says the House will vote…
President Barack Obama’s new $4 trillion budget plan seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have…
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine – As Ukrainian troops fought Monday to defend a strategic railway hub, Russian-backed separatists pledged to boost the size of their force, and Washington pondered whether to expand…
Revolution of energy savings have appeared to have fallen flat
