WASHINGTON – The House has passed a bill that would gradually increase the child tax credit and make it available to more families with higher incomes. But millions of low-income…
Putin Throughout the Ukrainian crisis, U.S. and European sanctions had mainly targeted a handful of individuals, sparing economic ties. Then last week, the U.S. imposed penalties on some of Russia’s…
EL-ARISH, Egypt – Gunmen shot and killed two senior Egyptian officers in the country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, where the military has been trying to quell a spreading insurgency by Islamic…
A survey out this week from Bankrate.com found that for long-term investments, Millennials prefer cash three times as much as the stock market. Instead of going for higher returns, they’re…
NAIROBI, Kenya – The Peace Corps is suspending its programs in Kenya because of security concerns and is pulling more than 50 volunteers out of the country until threat levels…
White House thinks plan could ease border crisis
WASHINGTON – Rep. Paul Ryan proposed a new plan Thursday to merge up to 11 anti-poverty programs into a single grant program for states that he said would allow more…
Kenyan police officers load the body of a female tourist into a police vehicle in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday. A Kenya police official says a female tourist was been shot dead…
Journalists wait for news outside the Spanish Swiftair airline office in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday. An Air Algerie flight carrying more than 100 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria’s capital…
A new study shows jealousy is not just a human emotion. Dogs, too, can have their fits of possessive intolerance when another suitor draws the attention of their owner –…
Kepler 421-b orbits a star about 1,000 light years from Earth at the “frost line” – the crucial distance that divides rocky planets from gaseous planets. At a distance of…
NEW YORK – The head of the government lab that potentially exposed workers to live anthrax has resigned, an agency spokesman said Wednesday. Michael Farrell was head of the Centers…
Israeli tanks ride along the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says there has been some progress toward reaching a cease-fire agreement between…
Pro-Palestinian protesters demand a halt to Israel’s attacks against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip during a protest in Berlin.Markus Schreiber/Associated Press “Anti-Semitic rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks on…
LAS VEGAS – Civilrights leaders at the NAACP’s annual convention worry that black voters won’t show up at voting booths in November this year. Black voting turnout hit records in…
BAGHDAD – A suicide driver rammed his explosive-laden car into a police checkpoint in the Iraqi capital, killing 21 people, including more than a dozen civilians en route to a…
Major tornadoes have hit several smaller cities in recent years, including this one that tore through Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 2011. While the recent tornadoes have caused lots of deaths and…
Pro-Russian rebels and members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe walk by plane wreckage in eastern Ukraine Tuesday. European Union officials are urging Russian President Vladimir Putin…
A National Guardsman checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas. Texas Adjutant General John Nichols would not say whether the…
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, smiles for a photo inside the Lunar Module while it rested on the lunar surface. Armstrong was the first man to walk on…
It’s “the gift that keeps on giving,” says Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won the case on behalf of New York widow Edie Windsor. Now privacy-rights advocates are hoping the…
Do you know the charges against you? Do you have representation? Do you understand that if you don’t show up to your next hearing, you could be deported? The children…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sternly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to compel Kremlin-backed separatists to stop hampering the probe at the Ukraine site of a downed passenger jet…
