KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday to call early elections within 24 hours or face more popular rage, after at…
European Olympics officials are dismissing a new threat of terrorism at next month’s Winter Olympics Games in Sochi, Russia. Officials in other countries say they also received emails threatening attacks…
The presidents “discussed how best to advance shared U.S.-Russian interests, including a safe and secure Sochi Olympics, for which the United States has offered its full assistance,” said a White…
Anti-abortion demonstrators march up Constitution Avenue toward the Supreme Court in Washington Wednesday during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators are gathering in Washington for an annual…
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem says Bashar Assad’s role as Syrian president will not be up for debate during peace talks set to begin Friday in Montreux, Switzerland. U.S. Secretary…
Julie Mayberry, right, wife of Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, center, and Rose Mimms, executive director of Arkansas Right to Life, left, sit in a gallery after the Senate voted last…
For many Syrian refugees such as Ibraheem Qaddah, a former Free Syian Army fighter from Daraa, peace talks that begin Friday offer little hope of ending the conflict that has…
Egyptians chant slogans Tuesday as they attend a rally in support of Egypt’s defense minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo. Supporters of the powerful army chief and defense minister urged…
Police evacuate students from the Electrical Engineering building after shots were fired on Tuesday on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. Officials at Purdue University say one…
The storm stretched 1,000 miles between Kentucky and Massachusetts but hit especially hard along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between Philadelphia and Boston, creating perilous rides home for millions…
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian plans to explain to U.S. officials his country’s plans to reorganize its forces in Africa so it can better respond to terrorist threats in…
Legal experts say that if former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden is ever prosecuted in U.S. courts, the government will probably be able to prevent him from ever arguing…
The average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.12 degrees above the 20th-century average and marks the 37th consecutive year, dating to 1976, that the annual temperature was…
Obama’s interview with The New Yorker magazine will appear Jan. 27. In it he said that while he considers marijuana “a bad habit and a vice,” a waste of time…
American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang Monday. Bae, 45, who has been jailed in North Korea for more than a…
One of the authors of a study showing nearly half of all black men have been arrested on non-traffic-related charges by age 23 says new policies are needed to ensure…
Legal experts say some of President Barack Obama’s proposals to reform the government’s surveillance programs raise constitutional and other problems.Charles Dharapak/Associated Press file photo Despite Obama’s plans to shift the…
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez says dozens of fraudulent credit cards were confiscated by police after arresting a man and a woman on fraud charges tied to the December Target…
Plans for a peace conference to end the war in Syria are in doubt after the United Nations Monday withdrew an invitation for Iran to join the talks.Craig Ruttle/Associated Press…
OMAHA, Neb. – An explosion Monday morning that brought down part of an animal feed processing plant in Omaha left two people dead and 10 others seriously hurt, authorities said.…
Firefighters stage outside the International Nutrition plant in Omaha, Neb., Monday. A fire and explosion killed several people and hospitalized 10. Others could be trapped at the animal feed processing…
Iran is disconnecting connections between cascades of centrifuges that were producing 20 percent enriched uranium at Iran’s Natanz facility. It is part of an agreement between Iran and world powers…
People around the country marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday by remembering and discussing the civil rights leader’s legacy. President Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha, right, marked the…
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno denied allegations by the Hoboken mayor that Superstorm Sandy relief funding was withheld from Hoboken because the mayor wouldn’t sign off on a politically connected real…
Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, says Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country threaten to replace good-paying union jobs with low-wage,…
Iran struck the deal in November with the so-called P5+1 countries – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. Negotiators agreed to final terms of the deal Jan.…
