Turkish security members on Tuesday gather outside a police station in Istanbul, Turkey, after a police officer was killed in a suicide bombing at the station.ASSOCIATED pRESS Istanbul governor Vasip…
UNITED NATIONS – The Syrian government Tuesday accused U.S. Sen. John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and two others of entering the country illegally. Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar…
Military unit aimed at countering Russian aggression
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio kisses House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California after being re-elected to a third term during the opening session of the 114th Congress.Pablo…
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is seen at launch complex 40 after an attempted early morning launch was scrubbed because of technical issues at the Cape…
Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath to Sen. Mike Rounds R-S.D., left, with wife Jean Rounds during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber of…
BERLIN – The square around the Cologne Cathedral was plunged into darkness Monday evening after the historical landmark in western Germany shut down its lights in a silent protest of…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, arrives with his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, right, and one of his daughters to the wake of his father, Mario Cuomo, on Monday in New…
European worries add to broad sell-off
MIAMI – Lesbian and gay couples were wed in Miami on Monday by the same judge who approved their marriage licenses, hours before Florida’s coming-out party as the nation’s 36th…
Same-sex couples in Miami celebrate Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel’s lifting of the legal stay she had placed on her July decision declaring the wedding ban discriminatory in Miami. Miami-Dade…
Can its 15% approval rating be improved?
EDDYVILLE, Ky. – Sailor Guztler – the 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash, walked a mile through the cold, dark woods to safety and then helped authorities locate the…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani airstrikes killed 31 jihadists, and a suspected U.S. drone strike killed another seven, officials said Sunday, as local troops pressed an ongoing offensive in the country’s…
Passengers now fearful of flying with airline
Variables from polar vortex to global warming tint public’s views
Bringing U.S. soldiers home harder than Obama thought
Parking enforcement officer Giovanni Serra watches as Sycamore Police Department intern Justin Keller writes a ticket in downtown Sycamore, Ill. Sycamore is one of the last communities in the country…
Engineers think inflatables could fly us out to Mars
BOSTON – Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was…
Syria’s civil war and Iraq’s spiraling violence: Yes, the extremist militants of the Islamic State are on the back foot, pinned down by a U.S.-led bombing campaign and increasingly undermined…
President ready to work after winter vacation
Only the 7-year-old daughter survives
National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada broke several ribs and facial bones when a piece of exercise equipment broke at his home in Nevada and injured him.Harry Hamburg/Associated Press…
