A new poll finds that fewer than one-third of Americans rate President Barack Obama as an above-average president, although nearly twice as many say say the president is likeable.Charles Dharapak/Associated…
An image taken from CCTV in Egypt shows a bomb exploding in Cairo, one of four bombings that killed at least six people Friday. Escalating violence between the military-backed government…
Emergency crews Thursday work at the scene of a massive pileup involving more than 40 vehicles along Interstate 94 near Michigan City, Ind. Authorities say a couple from Michigan and…
Protests are spreading across the Ukraine as opposition members continue to put pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych to step down.Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press Hours after the president’s comments, huge fireballs lit…
In a turnabout, there are now slightly more union members working for private firms than in government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That reverses a five-year trend. Although…
The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. On Friday, the price in the futures market rose to within a whisper of $5 per…
The front of an index card is filled with letters written by Dorothy Holm. A brain tumor took away Holm’s ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began…
It’s “not dead yet,” said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, who was part of the study published online by the journal Science. Researchers have long debated just how much…
Members of the Norway’s Men’s Olympic Curling Team, from left, Thomas Ulsrud, Torgor Nergard, Christoffer Svae and Havard Vad Petersson wear their new Sochi 2014 suits.Loudmouth Golf via Associated Press…
An Egyptian man stands in rubble after an explosion at the Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo Friday. Six people were killed in four bombings that escalated the violence between…
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, are free on their own recognizance after pleading not guilty Friday to federal charges that they traded political favors in exchange…
This artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Opportunity landed on the red planet on Jan. 24, 2004, and is still exploring.NASA/Associated…
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that the uninsured rate for U.S. adults dropped by 1.2 percentage points in January, to 16.1 percent. That would translate to roughly 2 million to…
It amounted to the most significant expression of high-level Pentagon concern about the nuclear force since 2008, when then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the top uniformed and civilian officials in…
A new Agriculture Department study suggests that more people read nutrition labels “always or most of the time.” The Food and Drug Administration is considering updating the rules for the…
WASHINGTON – Warning that a “major loss of life” could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains to transport large amounts of crude oil, U.S. and Canadian…
KOLKATA, India – A 20-year-old Indian woman said she was gang-raped on the orders of a village council because she fell in love with a man from a different religion,…
Protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are spreading throughout the country, with protesters breaking into regional governors’ offices to put more pressure on the government to step down.Pavlo Palamarchuk/Associated Press…
Ahmad al-Jarba, leader of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group, says his group has set no timetable for reaching a peace agreement to end end the civil war in Syria.…
The U.S. government is accusing the company that performed background checks on government and contract workers, including National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, of defrauding the government by submitting incomplete…
These police booking mugs made available by the Miami Dade County Corrections Department show pop star Justin Bieber, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Bieber and singer Khalil were arrested early Thursday…
America Tamayo Sotelo of Miacatlan, Mexico, is surrounded by media as she speaks on the phone to relatives in Texas of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday.…
“We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her constitutional right to privacy, including the right to reproductive freedom,” Obama said in…
Lines at some polling places were so long on Election Day 2012 that people were still waiting to vote when President Obama gave his victory speech that night, prompting the…
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration acting Administrator David Friedman plans to accept public comments on new rules to require child car seats to be safer in side-impact crashes.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A second chemical was released during a spill that contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians, state officials said Wednesday, though the newly identified substance appears…
President Barack Obama is giving a new task force 90 days to come up with recommendations on what colleges can do to prevent and respond to sex assaults against women…
Barre Sno-Bees Snowmobile Club Trailmaster Tim Stone stands in front of the tractor the club uses to pull trail grooming equipment in Barre, Vt. Below-zero temperatures are being reported across…
Legal experts say it will be difficult for the government to prove former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, broke the law by accepting loans and gifts in…
