Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says problems with the government’s healthcare.gov website are being repaired. She told Congress members Tuesday that the website…
Unofficial returns showed Mike Duggan defeating Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon 55 percent to 45 percent. Napoleon conceded defeat late Tuesday in a race where he was outspent by Duggan…
State Sen. Ed Murray, the architect of Washington state’s gay marriage law, carried 56 percent of the vote in the first round of ballot counting Tuesday night, building a comfortable…
Hundreds of people watched the rocket carrying the Mars orbiter take off from the east-coast island of Sriharikota and streak across the sky. Many more across the country watched live…
The family of Los Angeles International Airport shooting suspect Paul Ciancia is offering sympathies to the victims of last week’s shooting spree. Family attorney John Jordan said the family is…
While most of that business is not illegal, and ranges from private security guards and prison guards to contractors protecting U.N. missions, independent U.N. expert Anton Katz told the U.N.…
While reports of torture following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are not new, the report by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession said the U.S. should do a…
K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organization, said the country’s launch of a Mars space probe will be a demonstration of the country’s technological abilities.Altaf Qadri/Associated Press…
Supporters of President Mohammed Morsi rally before the ousted Egyptian president goes on trial Monday. Morsi’s trial began Monday, four months after he was arrested on charges of inciting his…
NEW ORLEANS – A federal appeals court heard dueling arguments Monday on whether a judge should have approved BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for compensating victims of its 2010 oil spill in…
The watchdog arm of the Department of Health and Human Services found that 21 states do not require an annual unannounced inspection of all licensed child care providers and that…
Drug smuggling is increasing throughout the Caribbean, and authorities are increasing their patrols and seizures throughout the area. Authorities believe the drug wars in Mexico and Central America may be…
New polls show President Barack Obama’s favorability rating with the public is falling, raising concerns as the president tries to advance his second-term policy agenda before his term expires.Evan Vucci/Associated…
American Federation of Government Employees, the union representing employees of the Transportation Security Administration, on Monday called for armed guards at every airport checkpoint.Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press “Every local airport…
Snowdendu1-i-syn “Mr. Snowden violated U.S. law,” White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said about the former systems-analyst-turned-fugitive who has temporary asylum in Russia. “He should return to the U.S. and face…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham airport reopened Sunday after a threat prompted an investigation by bomb technicians, flight diversions and a two-hour evacuation of hundreds of passengers. Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport…
Lawmakers of both parties considering overhauling agency
Dean and Mary Lou Griffin, of Chadds Ford, Pa., are among millions of people nationwide who are receiving notices that their individual insurance policies are being discontinued because they don’t…
U.S. attorney says murder believed to be ‘premeditated’
About 1,550 flights with 167,000 passengers were affected, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said in a statement Saturday. Of those, 724 were scheduled arrivals with an estimated 67,850 passengers and 826…
Gas prices dropped to $3.17 at a Speedway station in Kokomo, Ind., on Oct. 24. Local gasoline prices are swinging up and down ever more drastically, a result of a…
BART unions ratify contract that ended strike OAKLAND, Calif. – A second Bay Area Rapid Transit labor union has ratified the contract agreement that brought to an end a bitter…
Sen. John F. Kennedy, then a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, sits with wife, Jacqueline, as she reads to their daughter, Caroline, at Hyannis Port, Mass. Kennedy’s controversial and complicated image…
Workers prepare to install a 40-foot-tall, bronze statue of Jesus in the Christian town of Sednaya, Syria, in the middle of a sectarian civil war among Syrian forces, rebels and…
DAKAR, Senegal – Gunmen abducted and killed two French radio journalists on assignment in northern Mali on Saturday, French and Malian officials said, grabbing the pair as they left the…
The experts say two measures pushed by pro-logging interests ignore a growing scientific consensus that the burned landscape plays a critical role in forest regeneration and is home to many…
