The video emerged a day after the family of Haines issued a public plea late Friday urging his captors to contact them. The British Foreign Office said late Saturday that…
Domestic violence, abuse scandals rock football league
University of Chicago paleontologist Paul C. Sereno looks inside the jaws of a 50-foot life-size model of a Spinosaurus dinosaur at the National Geographic Society exhibit in Washington. National Geographic…
Developments replacing old communities, cultural past
Local governments taking steps, but they’re being quiet about it
Detained anti-government activists peer out from a prison van after their court appearance Saturday in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan’s opposition said police have arrested scores of activists in an effort to…
Arab world divided on whom should be supported in country
Feds chasing treasure seeker who bilked others of millions in gold
Tempers simmer as Election Day draws nearer
Storage security one of several issues unresolved
Russian convoy waited 2 weeks at border; Kiev’s consent not given
State Police identify trooper killed in ambush BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. – A late-night ambush outside a state police barracks in Pennsylvania’s rural northeastern corner left one trooper dead and another…
Reading about incidents appears to have less effect on us than viewing
Latest group in Syria said to pose direct threat to U.S. aviation
A boy is shown kicking a pumpkin authorities believe was stolen from a nearby preschool in Portales, N.M. Police said Friday two juvenile suspects have confessed to picking clean a…
An earlier storm hit late Thursday. “The second of the expected coronal mass ejections (CMEs) has arrived, and arrived in good agreement with the predicted arrival times,” according to NOAA’s…
NEW YORK – Newspaper company Digital First Media said Friday that it is exploring strategic options, which could include a sale of the company or parts of it. The privately…
A shopper looks at clothes at a J.C. Penney store in New York. Retail sales were up 0.6 percent in August, suggesting consumers are growing more confident about spending.Richard Drew/Associated…
Some lawmakers and legal experts are questioning whether President Barack Obama has the legal authority to approve airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria without seeking congressional…
According to an analysis of Homeland Security Department figures by The Associated Press, the federal agency responsible for deportations sent home 258,608 immigrants between the start of the budget year…
Bankers say they’ll move if independence is approved
Countries seek to counter growing threat from China
OMAHA, Neb. – An American aid worker infected with Ebola has been given blood from a fellow doctor who battled the disease, and Nebraska doctors say the man has responded…
SANTIAGO, Chile – President Michelle Bachelet marked Thursday’s anniversary of the 1973 military coup that toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende by urging Chileans to come forward with any information they…
Putin cited the United States’ continued development of a missile defense system in Europe and Alaska as a major threat facing Russia, but not the only one. “There are other…
WASHINGTON – An extreme solar flare is blasting its way to Earth and could mess up some power grids, satellites and radio transmissions, scientists say. It’s been several years since…
