Tourists stranded in Acupulco, Mexico, are growing more desperate days after Tropical Storm Manuel hit the coast and cut off the resort town. About 40,000 tourists are waiting to be…
Specifically, the temperature over global land and ocean surfaces tied with 2009 as the fifth-highest on record at 61.22 degrees, which is 1.12 degree above the 20th-century average of 60.1…
Prosecutors and attorneys for Jennifer Mee began selecting a jury in a Pinellas County courtroom. Judge Nancy Moate Ley told potential jurors that the trial would probably wrap up by…
Cindy Martinson is serving a 15-year sentence on drug-related charges even though the federal judge who sentenced her agreed that the first-time offender posed no threat. The judge was bound…
Elmendorf told reporters that the Treasury Department’s assessment that it’ll run out of borrowing authority and have just $50 billion cash on hand in mid-October “sounds plausible.” The government has…
Iranian authorities are blaming a “glitch” for Monday’s removal of Internet filters has long prevented Iranians from accessing social media websites. The filters were restored Tuesday, once again blocking Iranians’…
Halldor Thorgeirsson told journalists gathered at London’s Imperial College that the world’s leaders aren’t working hard enough to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change. “We are failing as an international community,”…
The main Syrian opposition coalition, meanwhile, urged the international community to take swift action against the regime of President Bashar Assad in response to a U.N. finding that the nerve…
White House press secretary Jay Carney says lawmakers who are opposing gun control measures are taking their cues the National Rifle Association’s lead, not their constituents. Carney said the White…
The account, contained in an Aug. 7 report from Newport, R.I., police, adds to the picture that has emerged of an agitated and erratic figure whose behavior and mental state…
President Dilma Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the…
More than 1 in 7 Americans were living in poverty, not statistically different from the 46.2 million of 2011 and the sixth straight year the rate had failed to improve,…
The agreement for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile to international authorities is raising new pressure on Israel to sign an international treaty condemning chemical weapons. Experts believe…
Supporters are running a campaign to get Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to run for president. The general ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and is gathering support from Egyptian…
But this time, the resistance that pushed Lawrence Summers to withdraw from consideration for Federal Reserve chairman came from Obama’s own Democratic base, not the conservatives who fought against him…
Baucus opened the Montana Jobs Summit in Butte – an old mining town almost a century removed from its heyday – with the leaders of companies such as Google Inc.,…
Congress all but eliminated federal funding to prevent lead poisoning in 2012, cutting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s lead budget by more than 90 percent. While there is…
The U.S., Britain and France jumped on evidence in the report – especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent, and trajectory of the missiles – to…
Ed Andrieski/Associated Press<br><br>Authorities are evacuating people from Colorado mountain towns who were cut off for the past several days because of continuing rain. With the weather clearing, people have begun…
Police are seeking a second possible gunman in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that left at least 12 people dead Monday. Two gunmen are believed to have opened…
Exit may open door for chief rival Janet Yellen
The comments by Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar to a Russian state news agency were the first by a senior Syrian government official on the deal struck a…
Boulder, Front Range now deal with mud ‘everywhere’
Stormy conditions led some communities in affected states to cancel Independence Day celebrations planned for Sunday and today. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Manuel began to weaken as soon…
The Honorable Steven R Mullins, right, leads a procession at a memorial service for an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Waterbury, Conn. Mr.…
The House Democratic leader said the deal, under which Syria will be expected to put its stockpile of chemical weapons under international control before they ultimately are destroyed, represented “significant…
Businessman Richard Cash, who is running against Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in next year’s South Carolina GOP Senate Primary, listens to Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer speak Aug. 29…
Tourists take pictures in New York’s Times Square on Sept. 15, 2008, of the day’s financial news about the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers displayed on the ABC news ticker. The…
