“It’s like having a little unicorn creature,” said Sasha Sinnott, an attorney from Pasadena who was nearly giddy about her dog’s makeover. For some dog owners, simple bathing and combing…
Plane makes emergency landing on NYC highway NEW YORK – A small plane made an emergency landing Saturday on an interstate highway in New York City, startling drivers but touching…
Kelly Miller, 22, a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, said she looks forward to some great things in the future, but she also worries that people will become…
Cruzdu1-i-syn Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the junior senator from Texas, said lawyers are preparing the necessary paperwork. The 43-year-old Cruz “has been fully focused on fighting for Texans’ values…
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent happy New Year. Only he got their…
Same set of rebel fighters is alligned against Assad regime
Opposition demands current prime minister to step down
In a plan unveiled Friday, the Justice Department is requesting current prohibitions related to mental illness be extended to those found incompetent to stand trial, people found not guilty by…
But the spy agency is apparently far from achieving a breakthrough in creating a “cryptologically useful quantum computer,” The Washington Post writes in a report. The effort is centered at…
Nailah Winkfield can take her daughter, 13-year-old Jahi McMath, to another facility if she assumes full responsibility, a judge said Friday. McMath has been declared brain dead, but Winkfield and…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke believes the U.S. economy will be stronger next year. Bernanke said Friday that factors that have kept the economy from accelerating appear to be abating…
The discovery of illegal weapons at the Palestinian Embassy in Prague, the Czech Republic, is threatening relations between the two governments. Prague residents are pushing for the embassy to be…
Earthquake lights are a rare phenomenon resulting from specific geological conditions. Rocks subjected to great stress produce electrical charges that can be channeled to the surface through deep vertical faults,…
British intelligence officials investigated a fake tape of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arguing about Britain’s invasion of the Falklands, declassified documents show. Intelligence officials…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, says progress is being made in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Kerry met with and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Friday during…
“I remembered, I think I went to San Jose,” the Northern California delivery driver told California lottery officials, who had publicized that the winning ticket was purchased at a gift…
The Justice Department said in court papers filed Friday that the challenge to the contraceptive requirement, filed by the Catholic nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor for the…
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says it’s “a new day in health care,” although the Obama administration is confirming that there is no easy way for consumers to…
A man clears snow from a vehicle on Friday in Albany, N.Y. A winter storm slammed into the U.S. Northeast with howling winds and frigid cold, dumping nearly two feet…
Associated Press file photo<br><br>Mikhail S. Gorbachev poses with Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the prime minister’s official country residence in Chequers. Britain’s National Archives Thursday released a confidential telegram…
SALEM, Ore. – A new study has found that previously uninsured people enrolled recently in Medicaid went to the emergency room 40 percent more frequently than others, often seeking help…
The Marine Corps is delaying adopting a new minimum fitness standard for female members because the service was worried it might make it harder to get recruits and retain female…
Americans are increasingly more pessimistic about the government’s ability to solve the nation’s problems, according to a new poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Rick Hohensee of…
Highway crews work to clear snow from roads on Thursday in Henniker, N.H. About 6 to 10 inches of snow are expected in the southern half of New Hampshire and…
A TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.…
Howard Kraft looks over health-care information in his Lincolnton, N.C., home Monday. All things good, bad and unpredictable converge Jan. 1 for President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul as the law’s…
