Ice in the Mississippi River flows past the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. For a chilly and snowbound East, here’s a dose of cold reality: The nation’s temperature in January…
MEXICO CITY – A group of leftist Mexico City lawmakers have introduced a bill to legalize the sale of marijuana in the nation’s capital. The initiative proposed by members of…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California would become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks under a proposal in the state Legislature. Democratic Sen. William Monning…
For those it impacts, ‘it means the world’
The Obama administration is beginning to suggest that it may be willing to wait until after a new Afghan leader is elected to decide if it will keep troops in…
In this image released on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Military Spokesman of the Armed Forces, Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, second right, and Egypt’s Foreign…
Pascal Tessier, left, a gay Boy Scout, receives his Eagle Scout badge from Troop 52 Scoutmaster Don Beckham, right, in Chevy Chase, Md., to become one of the first openly…
The Treasury reports how much of a budget deficit the U.S. government ran in January 2014. It is down 36.6 percent from a year ago, signaling further improvement in the…
Lillian Webb Park in Historic Norcross was an icy field Wednesday in Norcross, Ga. Across the South, winter-weary residents woke up Wednesday to a region encased in ice, snow and…
A Time Warner Cable truck is parked in New York. Comcast has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock, or $158.82 per share, in a deal…
Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, supreme allied commander of NATO forces, walks Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress has sent President Barack Obama legislation restoring…
A U.S. military guard walks down a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says the government has freed 65 accused militants…
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is calling the increase in health-care insurance signups “encouraging.” Her department released new figures on signups Wednesday showing about 1 million Americans registered…
Belgian politicians debate the bill on child euthanasia at the Belgian federal parliament in Brussels Wednesday. Belgium, one of the very few countries where euthanasia is legal, is expected to…
WASHINGTON – Legislation to raise the federal debt limit and prevent a crippling government default cleared Congress on Wednesday with an awkward assist from top Senate Republican leaders who were…
The new effort is more far-reaching, on a tighter timetable and backed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. So it appears to hold more promise for an Air Force under scrutiny…
U.S. Army tanks and fighting vehicles are unloaded to replace the U.S. Forces Korea’s 2nd Infantry Division’s existing ones at a pier in Busan, South Korea, Friday.Jo Jung-ho/Associated Press Seoul…
Young adults with just a high-school diploma earned 62 percent of the typical salary of college graduates. That’s down from 81 percent in 1965, the earliest year for which comparable…
WASHINGTON – Unwilling to spook the markets and divided among themselves, House Republicans backed away from a battle over the government’s debt limit Tuesday and permitted President Barack Obama’s Democratic…
Attorney General Eric Holder plans to work with tea party conservative Sen. Rand Paul to reform federal policies on mandatory sentencing that can send low-level drug offenders to prison for…
TEHRAN, Iran – President Hassan Rouhani called Tuesday for “fair and constructive” nuclear talks with world powers as Iran marked the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution with massive rallies…
The poll by the nonpartisan Atlantic Council found 56 percent of Americans and 63 percent of Floridians support engaging more directly with the communist island. In Miami-Dade County, home to…
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal extended a state of emergency Tuesday to more than half of the state’s counties as National Weather Service forecasters were predicting a “catastropic” winter storm will…
U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says Syrian peace talks appear to be bogged down with opposition leaders and Syrian government officials each blaming the other side for the stalled peace…
Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. It was one of nearly 150 flights that landed at or started to land at…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the Obama administration is not doing enough by delaying for one year a mandate that employers with 50 to 99 workers need to provide…
The cancellation comes only days after detained American missionary Kenneth Bae told a pro-Pyongyang newspaper that he expected to meet this month with the envoy. It signals an apparent protest…
Most Swiss business groups are warning that restricting immigration will hurt Switzerland’s export-based economy. Swiss voters Sunday approved a referendum to limit immigration into the country.Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press “We’re going…
First lady Michelle Obama says the construction industry is pledging to hire 100,000 servicemembers by 2019 not because it’s the patriotic thing to do but because it is “the smart…
