CONCORD, N.H. – A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and infecting dozens of patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through…
White House press secretary Jay Carney says visitors to the HealthCare.gov website are now being shuttled to a holding queue when traffic gets too heavy.Evan Vucci/Associated Press The Obama administration…
Amazon.com is urging Congress to resolve the question of how states tax online sales. The Supreme Court Monday refused to take up Amazon and Overstock.com’s appeal of a New York…
David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter, N.H., apologized for infecting patients with his hepatitis C-infected blood. The 34-year-old was sentenced to 39 years in prison Monday on 16…
NEW YORK – Thanksgiving Day openings and reduced prices failed to get Americans to crack open their billfolds during the biggest shopping week of the year. The tactics drew bigger…
McKeondu1-i-syn “You’d better hope we never have a war again,” the House Armed Services Committee chairman, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., said of the decline in what the military calls…
The beleaguered health-insurance website has had periods of down times as the government tries to fix the problems.JON ELSWICK/Associated Press But that doesn’t mean HealthCare.gov is ready for a clean…
A study published this week in the journal Science found that the gut reactions people had about each other shortly after their marriage helped predict whether they’d still be together…
Basit Javed Sheikhdu1-i-syn The State Department says it has no estimates of how many Americans have taken up weapons to fight military units loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in…
Americans more cautious of fellow citizens
Villagers rush to aid rural plane crash survivors ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents of a rural Alaska village reached survivors of a commuter plane crash two hours after the aircraft went…
Helicoper fell on bar during ska concert; 8 people die
Korean War veteran toured country before being detained
TEHRAN, Iran – The nuclear deal struck by Iran and six world powers will put more rubber on the road in the Islamic Republic. The country’s major carmakers stand ready…
A report by IRNA quoted Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying that Islamic Republic “would not attend a meeting in which the occupying regime participates.” Iranian officials routinely refer to…
“Peter has only spoken about it to a very, very small number of people, including my husband, Michael, his brother, as they are very close,” Lanza’s sister-in-law, Marsha, told the…
President Barack Obama Friday met with activists who are fasting to protest the House’s failure to act on an immigration bill. He is listening to Eliseo Medina, right, secretary-treasurer of…
Congressmen are proposing to honor members of the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services for their role in helping the Allied powers win World War II. Maj. Gen. William…
Retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso says the Obama administration needs to be more attuned to voting-rights complaints involving African-Americans rather than Latino voters.Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press Nearly half the…
WASHINGTON – Christmas has come to the White House. Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha and the family’s two dogs on Friday accepted an 18½-foot Douglas fir as the official…
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, says an investigation will be launched to determine what happened with two drone strikes Thursday that killed a child in Afghanistan.Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press Karzai had lashed…
CAIRO – Egyptian security forces firing tear gas and water cannons on Friday broke up anti-government demonstrations by Islamists defying a draconian new law restricting protests. Authorities are seeking to…
A composite image provided by NASA shows Comet ISON as it nears the sun. Scientists are saying now that some of the comet may have survived a close encounter with…
The United States and its Asian allies are continuing to challenge China’s declaration of a maritime air defense zone in the East China Sea. China says it sent warplanes to…
Retailers say the holiday shopping season is off to a good start, with shoppers packing stores to find bargains on Black Friday and Thanksgiving evening. More major retailers opened Thanksgiving…
While China’s surprise announcement last week to create the zone initially raised some tensions in the region, analysts say Beijing’s motive is not to trigger an aerial confrontation but is…
SAO PAULO – A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only…
