Since 1997, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping tabs on about 9,000 young men and women born in the early 1980s, surveying their educational and workplace progress.…
The number of cafes being closed in Iran because they violate “Islamic dignities” has dropped in recent months, suggesting that authorities are more open to the idea of them as…
These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world’s 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say…
As in soda pop. The Oakland A’s, a team widely known for thumbing its nose at conventions, will do it again beginning on Monday’s Opening Day. That’s when the only…
ARLINGTON, Wash. – A mountainside community waited in anguish Friday to learn the full scope of the Washington state mudslide as authorities worked to identify remains and warned that they…
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., introduced legislation Thursday requiring companies to get customers’ permission before collecting location data off their mobile devices and sharing it with others. It’s a move that…
The Russian Defense Ministry says the last of the Ukrainian servicemen have left the Crimea region and returned to Ukraine. Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, Friday called for new elections…
The European Mars rover unveiled this week at a “Mars Yard” testing ground in Britain is designed to drill beneath the surface of the Red Planet searching for signs of…
Abortion rights supporters demonstrate outside the Capitol auditorium in Austin, Texas, after Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping abortion restrictions that forced the closure of several clinics by requiring doctors who…
A narrow majority of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s signature health-care overhaul law is in for more changes, according to a new poll. The latest AP-Gfk Poll shows that just…
President Barack Obama is trying to mend fences with Saudi Arabia during a visit Friday with King Abdullah at Rawdat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia. Obama is seeking to reassure Saudi Arabia…
The announcement – four days before open enrollment season ends Monday – fulfills a revised goal set by the Congressional Budget Office and embraced by the White House. Like much…
Congress is moving to adopt another 12-month patch for the Medicare payment system after the House voted Thursday to grant another reprieve from a scheduled 24 percent cut in reimbursements…
AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld Texas’ tough abortion restrictions that have forced the closure of about 20 clinics around the state, saying the new rules…
GENEVA – A U.N. panel has found serious shortcomings in the United States’ civil-rights record, with experts citing Thursday a lack of adequate oversight and transparency in national security programs…
James Schlesinger is dead at 85. The onetime economics professor served three presidents in various capacities, including serving as defense secretary and energy secretary.Lawrence Jackson/Associted Press file photo Schlesinger has…
Russia urged United Nations to vote against a non-binding resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial inte-grity, arguing that its annexation of Crimea corrected a historic injustice. Ukrainian, Crimean and Crimean Tatar residents…
The Air Force is allowing Col. Robert Stanley II, commander of Malmstrom Air Force Base’s 341st Missile Wing, to resign as part of the service’s response to an exam-cheating scandal…
President Barack Obama’s job performance rating has dropped to its lowest level ever, with 59 percent of Americans disapproving of how he is performing his job.Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Despite the…
Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet told those gathered at the University of Michigan that the Peace Corps aims to double the number of applications while boosting recruiting in more racially and…
President Barack Obama, with Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is leading a last-minute campaign to get more people to sign up for health insurance on the federal exchange.…
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles Wednesday, South Korea and the U.S. said, a defiant challenge to a rare three-way summit of its rivals Seoul,…
Egyptian military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is expected to win the presidency in next month’s elections, restoring the country’s longtime legacy of having its presidents come from the military.Egyptian State Television/Associated…
Officials are trying to get family members of Malaysia Airlines pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah to talk about his mental state before he took off on a flight that disappeared more…
Scientists speculate there are probably thousands of tiny worlds in the inner Oort cloud that surrounds the solar system. Researchers have discovered a second object in the fringes of the…
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says the state’s attorney general, Republican Bill Schuette, will be able to decide whether he will opt to defend the state’s ban on gay marriages.Cory Morse/Associated…
The Secret Service denies there is widespread misconduct among members of the elite service, although the head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he’s worried about problems at the…
NORFOLK, Va. – A civilian approaching a Navy destroyer at the world’s largest naval base late at night took a weapon from a sailor who was standing watch and used…
President Barack Obama says that a proposal on how to handle and store telephone records collected by the National Security Agency will eliminate people’s concerns about how the information is…
