Some people are complaining that the South African government failed to make adequate arrangements for residents to view the body of Nelson Mandela. Thousands of people have waited for hours…
Evan Jennings talkls about his father, Brian Jennings, one of the victims of a drunken driving accident that killed four people. Ethan Couch, 16, was given 10 years probation after…
UNITED NATIONS – U.N inspectors said Thursday that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict, definitely in a widely publicized Aug. 21 attack near Damascus and probably in…
New data shows that states with Democratic leaders are registering more people on their health-care insurance websites than those with elected Republican leaders.Jon Elswick/Associated Press The discrepancy may trace back…
House Speaker John Boehner is attacking tea party-backed groups for not supporting the budget agreement the House passed Thursday.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press The legislation, backed by the White House, cleared…
LOS ANGELES – Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe outfits, including lines whose drivers had suspended…
Thamsanqa Jantjie says he was seeing angels while translating for public officials during Nelson Mandela’s memorial services Tuesday in Soweto. Jantjie, who deaf advocates say was not using sign interpretation,…
The comet, which excited astronomers and the media as it zipped within 730,000 miles of the sun on Thanksgiving Day, was pronounced dead at a scientific conference this week. Astronomers…
The companies aren’t just low-cost, fly-by-night carriers – some have transported school bands, Boy Scouts or senior citizens, according to Anne S. Ferro , administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier…
Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler believes his agency should allow airlines to decide whether or not to allow passengers to use their cellphones on airplanes, Transportation Secretary Anthony…
Federal Housing Finance Authority Director nominee Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., listens as President Barack Obama announces his nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency last May. Republicans are threatening…
In this frame grab from video provided by NASA, two Russian flight engineers perform maintenance on the International Space Station in June. NASA said it is looking into a problem…
A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in…
NEW YORK – Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church’s new leader has changed the perception of the 2,000-year-old institution…
BEIRUT – The U.S. and Britain said Wednesday they were suspending deliveries to rebels in northern Syria of nonlethal aid such as communications equipment and laptops after some of the…
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking her department’s inspector general to investigate her department’s management and contracting practices to determine what role they may have had in…
“There used to be a pretty important principle that originated in the Republican Party, I believe, that partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge,” said White House spokesman Josh…
But Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. has no plans to reopen negotiations on the hard-won text. Dempsey said he hasn’t started…
The agreement eases some of the pain of the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that past and current defense secretaries, senior military leaders and Congress’ defense experts have railed against for…
Poll: Large percentage of Americans unhappy with Congress
Advocates for the deaf say the sign language interpreter who was on stage Tuesday with President Barack Obama and other world leaders during a memorial service for former South African…
‘There’s no other way to connect the dots’
Ukrainian riot police storm pro-European Union activists gathered in their tent camps on the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday. Security forces clashed with protesters as they began tearing down…
Juan Eibenschutz, director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, said a robot was used to scoop up the dangerous material and deposit it in a safe…
An artist’s rendering shows the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe in space. The space agency hopes to launch a lander from the probe that will touch down on a…
That is starting to change. Last year, black Marines who served during World War II, named Montford Point Marines after the segregated boot camp where they trained, were awarded a…
BANGKOK — The head of Thailand’s protest movement on Tuesday extended his extraordinary claims to holding power over government activities, issuing orders to officials over whom he has no legal…
BOSTON – Democrat Katherine Clark has defeated three opponents to win a special election to fill a vacant Massachusetts congressional seat. The state senator from Melrose will be only the…
French President Francois Hollande says deploying French troops to the Central African Republic is necessary to help the country avoid carnage. Hollande stopped in the central African nation to address…
Amr Moussa, the chairman of Egypt’s 50-member panel tasked with amending its Islamist-drafted constitution, says he believes the group’s proposed will meet the country’s needs for the 21st century.Amr Nabil/Associated…
