Nuclear power plants around the country are making plans to continue storing nuclear wastes on site while Congress continues to wrestle with trying to develop a national nuclear waste site.…
Navigator John Jones explains the many options to a client seeking help buying health insurance at the Family Guidance Center in Springfield, Ill. The wild hikes in health insurance rates…
Twenty-six states now allow same-sex marriage, and an unbroken string of state and federal court rulings in support of gay and lesbian unions has led many to propose gay marriage…
Polls suggest new president will avoid run-off election
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Officials say a massive wildfire burning in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage has grown in windy conditions, and mandatory evacuations are underway. She says the fire…
More than half a century ago, millions were spent to tame the flood-prone channel, turning it into a straight sluice to carry excess water to the Gulf of Mexico. The…
Hero, believed to be the nation’s first double-amputee calf with prosthetics, snuggles with his owner, Kitty Martin, in Houston. Martin rescued the abandoned calf from a Virginia farm a year…
Stability wasn’t always the norm. Between 2003 and 2008 average retail gasoline prices more than doubled, reaching an all-time high of $4.11 per gallon in 2008. Prices then collapsed as…
‘Time to think’ given as partial custody rationale
Lands in West Bank instead of Tel Aviv as a nod to Palestinians
Director says son was responsible for the rampage
President Obama to argue for avoiding overreach WASHINGTON – Confronting critics of his foreign policy, President Barack Obama soon will outline a strategy for his final years in office that…
Russia’s Putin will work with election winner
Shiite pilgrims beat themselves as a sign of grief Saturday outside the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad. Shiite pilgrims are expected to converge on the shrine…
Psychedelic bus gears up for 50th anniversary ride
Mountain gods, demons called upon by Myanmar locals
Gunmen didn’t reach assembled members inside
A man watches the TV news program about the reward being offered for information about Yoo Byung-eun Friday. South Korea is offering a big bounty to find the mysterious billionaire…
Credit and debit cards used issued by banks in Europe already use microchips, which offer better security protections for users. Visa and MasterCard are urging U.S. banks and retailers to…
President Barack Obama touts his health-care overhaul program as a success when it was announced that 8 million people had signed up for health insurance through the federal HealthCare.gov website.J…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has nominated up-and-coming Democrat Julian Castro as the nation’s housing secretary. The move is part of a broader shuffle of Obama’s Cabinet that includes nominating…
Ziolkowski, who died Wednesday of cancer at age 87, had taken over leadership of the Black Hills tourist attraction that honors Native Americans upon the 1982 death of her husband,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, suggested Friday that the United States is pushing the European Union to impose new sanctions on his country so the U.S. can gain a competitive…
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will become one of the highest-ranking Hispanics in the administration if he is confirmed as the nation’s new Housing and Urban Development Department secretary. President…
WASHINGTON – The House on Thursday passed legislation to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of American phone records, the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA…
An Air Force report recommends that the military regularly hold exercises to ensure base security personnel can regain control of a missile silo seized by terrorists.Beau Wade/Associated Press The previously…
Thai soldiers are patrolling the streets of the capital Bangkok. Thailand’s military seized power Thursday, two days after it declared martial law.Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press The coup, the second in eight…
