Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama’s choice to become Homeland Security secretary, argues that his two year’s experience as a federal prosecutor has given him the necessary law enforcement experience to…
Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Congress to not move forward with plans to impose new sanctions on Iran until negotiators with the Islamic republic have had a chance…
The intensifying frustrations of delivering aid five days after Typhoon Haiyan struck elicited a plea from the top U.N. relief official to the mayor of Tacloban, imploring him to persuade…
HONOLULU – Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed a bill legalizing gay marriage in a state that kicked off a national discussion on the issue more than two decades ago.…
Bob Daugherty/Associated Press<br><br>President Carter says documents presented to him before he met with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped him understand the two leaders and…
Prince Charles is turning 65 today and will begin collecting a government pension. The British prince is the longest-waiting heir apparent in British history, still waiting to take over as…
Medical personnel in the Philippines are expecting futher complications as more victims of last week’s Typhoon Haiyan require more medical aid in the next few days. Philippine hospitals are short…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says the government’s new health-care program does not offer Americans affordable health care “in a meaningful way.”J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Adding in…
Senators planned to vote on Obama’s selection of Georgetown University law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…
Former president calls on Obama to let people keep their coverage
The nation’s first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes call for twice as many Americans — one-third of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering…
Delivering supplies is challenging
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ruled Tuesday that, once completed, 1 World Trade Center, will be the tallest in the United States, with a height of 1,776 feet.Kathy…
This 14.82-carat fancy vivid orange diamond sold for $35.5 million at auction Tuesday in Geneva.Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria – Families in a central neighborhood of the Syrian capital wept quietly…
Passengers with existing tickets on American or US Airways – and members of both frequent-flier programs – shouldn’t fret. No changes will come immediately. Since announcing the deal in February,…
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a bill designed to tighten government oversight of pharmacies that custom-mix prescription drugs, in the wake of last year’s deadly meningitis outbreak…
American, US Airways make concessions in settlement
Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who called lawmakers to a special session for the bill and has vocally supported gay marriage, said in a statement he will sign the measure. It will…
Called Janus, the program run by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency “seeks to improve face-recognition performance using representations developed from real-world video and images instead of from calibrated and…
A man walks home with his son Monday after Friday’s devastating typhoon that lashed Hernani township, in eastern Samar province, in the central Philippines. Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably…
Richard Overton the oldest living WWII veteran, listens during a Veterans Day ceremony attended by President Barack Obama, commemorating Veterans Day on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.…
Prosecution shows Otto Griebel’s ‘Kind am Tisch’ (Child at a table) that was among the more than 1,400 art works seized by German authorities in an apartment in Munich in…
Survivors move past the damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City in the central Philippines on Monday. The typhoon-ravaged Philippine Islands, which are surrounded by storm-fueling warm water, receive…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran and the United States on Monday blamed each other for the failure to reach agreement on a deal to limit Iran’s uranium enrichment in…
Promised ethanol benefits never come, but costs are plenty
NEW YORK – Attorneys for New York City asked a federal appeals court to vacate a judge’s orders that require the police department to change its stop-and-frisk practice that critics…
