The latest U.S. actions took aim at more Russian banks and a large defense firm, but they also went further than past moves by blocking future technology sales to Russia’s…
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds two-thirds of Americans now say illegal immigration…
WASHINGTON – The House and Senate have passed competing versions of legislation to prevent the federal trust funds providing highway and transit funds from running dry next month and to…
The Senate Tuesday unanimously confirmed Robert McDonald to take over as head of the Veterans Affairs Department. McDonald, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble, is a former Army Ranger…
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., joined by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in…
Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic policemen guard a convoy of international forensic experts, Dutch and Australian policemen and members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe mission in Ukraine,…
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue holds a photograph of his dead brother showing his bruises and injuries during an interview Wednesday in Salt Lake City. Trentadue’s quest to explain…
House, Senate committees work out deal; now faces both chambers
Study pegs runners with 30 percent lower risk of death than the sedentary
WASHINGTON – Even as they grapple with an immigration crisis at the border, White House officials are making plans to act before November’s mid-term elections to grant work permits to…
Price exceeds $1B annually to suppress blazes
Muslim holiday on Friday marks end of Ramadan
Bill expected to authorize billions of dollars in emergency spending
CAMARILLO, Calif. – A national survey finds the average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has plummeted 9 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $3.58. That’s the largest…
Niuean culture threatened by exodus of natives
Rules prohibit secret filming documenting abuse of animals
Meanwhile, Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk
Sister of victim had also died from virus
Republicans push for $1B in solutions
Supreme Court had ruled lethal injection is OK
Fast-food workers vow civil disobedience VILLA PARK, Ill. – Fast-food workers from across the country voted in suburban Chicago to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation by…
Officials don’t know who fired missile
Hamas rejects cease-fire extension, resumes attacks
Volunteer Theodore Davi prepares a display with items excavated over the last eight years from the Avery hive site in Groton, Conn. Several hundred artifacts have been unearthed and some…
More than 200 French army soldiers are guarding the site of an Air Algerie plane crash in northern Mali. The soldiers have recovered a black boxt that will be examined…
