Lawyers for Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who were arrested over the last month as part of a massive crackdown on the Brotherhood, appear in a courtroom in downtown Cairo on Aug.…
Fundraising fell in the July-to-September fundraising quarter for two-thirds of the 42 House Republicans elected since 2010 who signed an August letter that urged House leaders to tie dismantling the…
Authorities are now searching for Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker, who were mistakenly freed from a Panhandle prison within the last month. Both men were serving life in prison but…
The brainstorming comes after two days of nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers ended this week in Geneva. The talks – the first since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took…
If confirmed by the Senate – and no organized opposition has been indicated – Jeh C. Johnson would replace Janet Napolitano, who left her post last month to become president…
Kenya Police officials say a Somali Muslim who grew up in Norway was one of the gunmen who attacked a mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow is the first…
During a news conference, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the arrest of 30-year-old Vivian Vosburg on two counts of child abuse with bodily harm and four counts of child…
The Texas Land Commission is now in charge of approving permits for groups wishing to hold rallies or events on the grounds of the Alamo in San Antonio. The commission…
Former House Speaker Tom Foley is dead at the age of 84. The longtime Democratic representative was the first speaker of the House since the Civil War to lose his…
Orin Wagner/Associated Press<br><br>Although the immediate crisis has passed and President Barack Obama appears to have the upper hand after an agreement was reached to reopen the federal government and raise…
The U.N. is seeking more information about the United States’ drone program. The U.N. suspects about 450 civilians have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and is asking the…
This cleaning was detected in the brains of sleeping mice, but scientists said there’s reason to think it happens in people too. If so, the finding may mean that for…
HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A Michigan man says he was fired from his job at Wal-Mart after he tried to help a woman being assaulted in the parking lot of…
The 1.8 million-year-old skull that was found in 2005 in the medieval village of Dmanisi, Georgia, provides new evidence that human evolution involved fewer branches than many scientists believed.Shakh Aivazov/Associated…
About 30 home health-care providers for Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation are still awaiting word on when they can return to work. Shar Siimpson, who oversees home health-care services on the…
Although new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is trying to ease tensions with the West, his efforts are facing opposition from hard-liners within the government. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is…
Four former Blackwater Worldwide guards are being charged in a 2007 shooting in Baghad, Iraq, that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. The case has lingered for years and created an…
The timeline announced Thursday means workers will have to wait nearly two weeks to recover back wages. Some union officials say that’s a hardship for many who have bills to…
Capitol Visitor Center tour guide Mary Ellen Anderson, of Alexandria, Va., calls over a group of visitors for the start of a tour on Capitol Hill on Thursday in Washington.…
Mexico, Uruguay, Poland and other countries and states already are reviewing the new regulations, which cover everything from the security at and size of licensed marijuana gardens, to how many…
Experts are expressing concerns about Facebook’s decision to let teens between 13 and 17 begin sharing their posts with anyone on the Internet rather than just their friends and friends…
Maia Weinstock, left, hopes to get women in science and technology fields more recognition on Wikipedia. Weinstock, a Brown University graduate, is training women on how to edit and add…
While negotiators were working Wednesday on an agreement to end an impasse in Congress, House Republicans were questioning the National Park Service’s decisions to close parks and national monuments throughout…
A memo shows Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was predicting that 500,000 people would sign up for health insurance on the federal and state exchanges by the end…
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a vegetarian with a Twitter following of 1.4 million – or five times the population of the city he governs. is the new Democratic senator from…
U.N. inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, seen during a training session at Germany’s armed forces training center in Wildflecken, Germany, are making good progress verifying…
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton says the talks between Iran and Western nations were “very important.”Martial Trezzini/Associated Press EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton…
Landslide, late-night vote ends shutdown, avoids debt default
The family of Riven Flamenbaum is arguing that a Berlin museum has waited too long to try to reclaim a 3,200-year-old gold tablet the Holocaust survivor somehow acquired after World…
The stock market is the better-known barometer of the U.S. financial system, symbolized by famous companies and colorful traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. But the…
