President Barack Obama is expected to announce new policies on National Security Agency surveillance programs next week. He is meeting with intelligence officials, lawmakers and privacy advocates this week to…
Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is enjoying soaring popularity among many Egyptians.Khalil Hamra/Associated Press A presidential run by Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will also depend on whether oil-rich Gulf Arab…
Salt Lake County clerk may refund marriage license fee
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is marking the third anniversary of her shooting by a gunman in Tucson with a skydive jump. She completed the jump Wednesday while others marked the…
Many Marine veterans who helped capture the Iraqi city of Fallujah from Iraqi insurgents in 2004 have mixed feelings now that the city has been overrun by al-Qaida forces. Soldiers…
Travelers are trying to reach their destinations as train, car and rail traffic is slowing to a crawl because of the arctic weather that has descended across much of the…
The IRS launched 1,492 criminal investigations into identity theft last year, a 66 percent increase from the year before. Prosecutions and indictments more than doubled. The numbers dwarf those from…
Emad Matti/Associated Press<br><br>Security forces and civilians Tuesday gather at a crater caused by a suicide car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. Police said a suicide…
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says in his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, that President Barack Obama’s decision to send a Navy SEAL team in…
The “polar vortex” is continuing to bring shivers to much of America. The arctic storm that is gripping much of the nation brought freezing temperatures to all 50 states Tuesday,…
Senate Republican leaders are saying they will support a bill to extend unemployment benefits to long-term jobless Americans if Democrats will agree to work on ways to ensure the plan…
Dennis Rodman huddles with North Korean basketball players and fellow former NBA stars at a practice session Tuesday in Pyongyang, North Korea. Rodman says the exhibition game he is putting…
Record low temperatures are being set across the Midwest and East Coast as a winter storm brings subzero weather to much of the nation. The arctic weather and winds has…
NEW ORLEANS – A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday on whether the state of Texas can enforce a law that led to the closing of several abortion clinics, a…
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. officials are warning the Security Council that Central African Republic is on the brink of a catastrophe, with half the population of Bangui made homeless since…
Conservation groups are hailing China’s decision to destroy about 6 tons of illegal ivory as a sign of growing concern about black market trading in ivory.Vincent Yu/Associated Press Authorities displayed…
While the White House sees hard-won vindication, it’s too early to say if the four-year trend that continued through 2012 is a lasting turnaround that Obama can claim as part…
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir says warfare “will do no good” for the people of South Sudan. Sudan allowed South Sudan to become independent after 20 years of civil war.Ali Ngethi/Associated…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, says he nearly has the votes to approve legislation for extended unemployment benefits. Congress is returning to work today and will be…
Janet Yellen will take over as the first female head of the Federal Reserve Bank on Feb. 1. Yellin was confirmed Monday to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman.Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press…
An al-Qaida linked militant fighter exercises at an unknown training camp in Syria in this photo posted on a militant group’s Facebook page. Syrian rebels surrounded a large compound held…
Jahi McMath is in an unnamed critical care center after being transferred from Children’s Hospital in Oakland. The hospital was ordered to release the girl, who the hospital says is…
Texas facility is first in country to go all digital
Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack Obama’s health-care law. They see a political boost in its problem-plagued rollout as the they looks to maintain its House…
Indonesian students share a tablet computer to check their Facebook accounts in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers…
NEW YORK – Authorities say one person has died and another has been injured in a three-alarm high-rise apartment fire in midtown Manhattan. Firefighter spokesman Danny Glover said the fire…
Photographer was ‘happy’ and ‘touched’
Meteorologist: Blame dramatic winter weather on a ‘polar vortex’
