Rachel Bailey checks a map of the Oso mudslide area at the Darrington IGA market Monday in Darrington, Wash. Friends of Bailey are still missing from the mudslide.Sofia Jaramillo/Associated Press…
Medical officials are worried that the first Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa in 20 years could spread beyond a remote area of Guinea. Isolated cases have already been confirmed…
Administration officials say President Barack Obama will extend the deadline for people to enroll in health-care plans on HealthCare.gov until mid-April.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press file photo Health and Human Service…
Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday while the justices hear arguments in case that could decide whether businesses can get an exemption from providing birth control…
Nearly three dozen countries will open up their nuclear security procedures to independent review, part of an international effort to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists.…
Search-and-rescue crews remain uncertain about how many people may have been affected by a mudslide that hit near a small fishing village in Washington state Saturday. At least eight people…
The somber announcement late Monday by Prime Minister Najib Razak left unresolved many more troubling questions about what went wrong aboard the Boeing 777 to take it so far offcourse.…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Seeking to isolate Russia, the U.S. and Western allies said Monday they are indefinitely cutting Moscow out of a major international coalition and warned they stand…
Risks, effects of warming immediate, experts say
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He helped lead protests pushing for ouster of former president
DETROIT – Michigan state agencies won’t immediately recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages performed in the hours before an appeals court put on hold a judge’s ruling that tossed out a…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s presidency says its spy agency believes a foreign intelligence service, and not the country’s main militant groups, was behind the attack on a Kabul hotel last…
18 people missing, floods possible with blocked river
So far, repercussions haven’t made Putin blink
A giraffe at Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, licks the face of terminally-ill patient Mario Eijs. Eijs worked at the zoo doing odd jobs for 25 years, and his…
GOP is building up résumé to attack her if she runs for president
Dr. Willie Underwood, a urologic oncologist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, examines cancer patient Richard Waldrop. President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul prevents insurance companies from denying coverage for cancer patients,…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the brother and son of former presidents, says he has not decided whether he will run for president, although friends and advisers say he is…
Lincoln “loved telling the occasional bawdy joke, and, you know, being out among regular folks,” Obama told ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd on Thursday. Obama said he needs to break…
A page of original artwork drawn by Al Plastino for the 1964 DC comic book “Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy” will be on display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential…
A new poll suggests consumers are becoming more in control of how and where they get news. The poll shows that consumers still are interested in hard news, but they…
Eastern Ukraine may push for referendum to join Russia
But guess what conservative countries were having reservations about?
