McDonalddu1-i-syn An administration official said Obama would announce McDonald’s appointment Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as…
Scientists say the aquarium fishery off the Big Island is among the best managed in the world, but it has nevertheless become the focus of a fight over whether it’s…
But across the hyperactive oil fields of North Dakota, these and other groups have to wait for another team – archaeologists, who often must survey the land before a single…
High court decision rules in one case he went too far
Prices will average about $3.68 a gallon for regular grade, up 17 cents from last year but below the all-time $4.11 record set in 2008. Rising crude oil prices have…
More than 15,000 people marched during the Euro Pride gay pride Saturday in Oslo, Norway. President Barack Obama’s administration has taken the U.S. gay-rights revolution global, using American embassies across…
A mahout and his elephant head toward the River Tawi on a hot May day in Jammu, India. Large regions across north India experienced a heat wave in early May.…
Pelosi holds little hope for immigration reform BROWNSVILLE, Texas – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border that she holds little hope that…
People inspect buildings damaged by an Iraqi government airstrike in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday, where the Iraq military carried out three airstrikes on the insurgent-held city.Associated…
In a 10-minute hearing held amid tight security, Ahmed Abu Khattala spoke just two words, both in Arabic. He replied “yes” when asked to swear to tell the truth and…
Randy Oliver, the chief scientist for Analytical 360, works in the company’s new cannabis analysis laboratory, in Yakima, Wash., which is the only lab that has been certified to test…
Susan Walsh/Associated Press<br><br>A review of the Veterans Affairs health-care system that was ordered by President Barack Obama has concluded that there are “significant and chronic systemic failures” that the VA’s…
Lavazza’s and Argotec’s “ISSpresso” machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on the International Space Station and will be a welcome addition for many astronauts who have complained…
A photo on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s website shows militants leading away captured Iraqi soldiers after the militant group captured a base in Tikrit, Iraq.Islamic State…
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa Supreme Court ordered the nation’s leading chiropractic college on Friday to make accommodations to allow blind students to complete degrees, in an important victory…
The Golden Gate Bridge’s board approved a $76 million funding package to install a safety net to prevent people from jumping off the bridge. There have been more than 1,400…
Bayne left his wife, Katie, with four young children in Brisbane and a prescient letter of regret: “What a dammed fool I was to ever have enlisted.” Bayne lies alongside…
Teacher assistant Margarita Sokolova, second from left, helps Giuliana Zautta, 17, of Menlo Park, Calif., during a Girls Who Code class at Adobe Systems in San Jose, Calif. Girls Who…
U.S. soldiers sweep for land mines outside Tikrit, Iraq. The Obama administration announced it will no longer produce land mines and that it intends to sign a treaty banning their…
President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for blocking Democratic proposals to help create jobs and improve economic conditions for the American middle class. The president visited a job training center in…
For the second consecutive year, net immigration by Asians topped that of Hispanics, the agency reported. About 338,000 Asians immigrated to the U.S. in the 12 months ending July 1,…
WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., who cut to the core of the 1973 Watergate hearings when he asked, “What did the president know and when did he…
Anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen stands at the edge of a painted buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Boston. The Supreme Court threw out the buffer zone requirement in…
Julie Pemberton, a cashier at Curry College near Boston, is looking for a new apartment because her health insurance premiums have increased by more than $200 a month since the…
Iraqi Christian families gather at a social club in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq, after fleeing Sunni militants who are advancing toward Baghdad.Associated Press Increasingly, al-Maliki’s former allies believe…
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired three short-range projectiles Thursday into the waters off its east coast in a possible move to stoke tensions with Seoul, a South Korean…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling on Russia to stop fighters from flowing into Ukraine from Russia. As a truce agreement is set to expire, thousands of Ukrainians were crossing…
