WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain said Sunday the CIA has not been forthcoming with the Congress on details about an American who disappeared while on a secret intelligence mission to…
The handle @tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature. In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips…
Sheriff Travis Hutchinson, right, speaks with reporters as Jim Ciotti of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation looks on, during a news conference at the Wayne County Justice Center in…
From left, Valerie MacIsaac and Joseph Grutza skate at Comerica Park in Detroit on Sunday. Red Wings season ticket holders were able to skate on the fresh ice on the…
Group wary of government role closing the income gap
Some Republican governors are not playing party politics
Vegas developer selling $7.85M mansion for bitcoin LAS VEGAS – A casino owner-turned-commercial developer is asking $7.85 million to sell a Las Vegas home, and he’s willing to accept the…
For some of the children, this was the first time they had laid eyes on the man with a white beard in the red suit, the mythical character they have…
Virginia Uranium Inc. said it will not back the introduction of uranium mining legislation in the 2014 session of the General Assembly, which would be a first step to tap…
A man purchases Mega Millions lottery tickets at the Bi Rite market in Olmsted Township, Ohio, on Friday. With no winner from the Friday the 13th drawing, lottery officials have…
The bureaucracy that sprung up at the height of fighting in Iraq will be needed for “the inevitable next fight,” said Army Lt. Gen. John Johnson, who leads the Joint…
Less than two weeks later, an Afghan soldier killed four French troops, citing the video as a motivation for the attack, said Afghan authorities. There have been abuses in combat…
In a decade in which 21 Minnesotans were sickened in confirmed outbreaks, an additional 530 possible individual cases were logged in state records, and there may have been 20,000 more…
Janet Perkins, president of the Portland, Maine, chapter of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, says the group is not keen on the law legalizing marijuana that went into effect Friday in…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight. Iran’s state…
Changes mind after saying he wouldn’t go because he didn’t feel welcome
Balloons fly outside a doctor’s office on the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, in Newtown, Conn. on Saturday. Bells tolled 26 times to honor the children and educators…
New law is eating away at president’s standing
People watch a TV news report about the execution of Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea.…
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says a task force looking at intelligence oversight proposals doesn’t need to observe federal transparency rulesEvan Vucci/Associated Press The White House did not make…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. walks to a closed-door briefing on the recent agreement reached between Iran and western powers on Iran's nuclear program, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, on Capitol Hill…
WICHITA, Kan. – A Kansas man who prosecutors say sympathized with violent terrorists was arrested Friday as part of an FBI sting after he drove a vehicle loaded with what…
Iran is concerned about letting international inspectors into its nuclear facilities because it fears it could increase the risk of military attacks on the buildings or its researchers.Majid Asgaripour/Associated Press…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, is trying to get a framework peace agreement in place between Israel and the Palestinians. Kerry is back in the Mideast, where he…
A photo shows retired-FBI agent Robert Levinson in a photo the family received in April 2011.Associated Press Levinson’s family urged the government “to step up and take care of one…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may have to make a spacewalk to try to repair the space station’s cooling system, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration says. One of…
