Like listening to rock music in the 1960s, interest in such a uniquely American import marked the young skaters as socially suspicious, and sometimes for rough treatment by police and…
Attorney general wants shorter sentences for drug-related crimes
A supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi stands guard by sand barriers that have set up by supporters of Morsi to install a camp and hold daily rallies outside…
The North Carolina boy was on vacation with his family at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park when he found the honey brown diamond July 31. He named it God’s…
Gasoline prices typically head lower after the peak summer driving season, and despite a blip Friday, wholesale prices reflecting September levels are slumping. Coupled with ample supplies and lower autumn…
Meghan Ford of Marshfield, Mass., left, looks through a rack of clothes near a cut-out photograph of President Barack Obama, right, at a shop in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the…
The orthographic schism between the YOLO generation and its elders came into stark relief last weekend when a Connecticut eighth-grader told his local newspaper that he was “cheated” out of…
Gov. Jan Brewer ‘deeply troubled’ by the decision
Iowa democrats worry that, after finishing in third-place in the 2008 caucus, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could focus her efforts elsewhere if she runs for president in 2016.Matt…
Forty-year-old James Lee DiMaggio was killed by FBI tactical agents after a campsite was spotted from the air, said Gore. Gore declined to discuss details of DiMaggio’s death, saying authorities…
Wayne, a San Clemente fox that was rescued by a civilian wildlife biologist, entertains visitors in his cage on San Clemente Island on July 17. The fox was endangered from…
The Los Pajaritos petrochemical complex in Coatzacoalcos in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, belongs to the country’s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposal to…
Black smoke from a car bomb attack is seen in Baghdad on Saturday, part of a wave of car bombings that targeted cafés and markets around the Iraqi capital as…
Stevie Marie Vigil, 22, was taken into custody without incident during the court hearing after a federal grand jury charged her with knowingly giving a firearm to Evan Ebel, the…
Oprah Winfrey, one of the richest women in the world, says she encountered racism during a visit to Zurich when a boutique employee refused to show her an expensive handbag…
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to limit how much prisons and prison management companies can charge inmates for phone calls. Inmates’ families first asked the commission to limit the charges…
“It’s not enough for me to have confidence in these programs,” the president declared of NSA domestic intelligence-gathering programs at a White House news conference, one day before his departure…
In what reads like a lesson plan, Nasser al-Wahishi provides a step-by-step assessment of what worked and what didn’t in Yemen. But in the never-before-seen correspondence, the man at the…
Fire officials are predicting that California is in for a harsher-than-usual fire season. The season has been brutal so far, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide than a…
To date, the agreements have been made without relinquishing Afghan military authority or allowing the Taliban to expand influence, coalition officials say. “We have not seen a geographic expansion of…
Israel’s construction of new settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem could cost the country millions of dollars in research grants under a new European Union decision to…
With several U.S. diplomatic posts closed temporarily in Africa and the Middle East this week amid a global alert about terrorism, Washington evacuated most of its personnel from Lahore, Pakistan’s…
Danish Muslim Ahmad Akkari is now apologizing for his role in spurring protests seven years ago against a Danish newspaper’s printing of editorial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Akkari says…
In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Israel’s latest settlement announcements were an indication of “Israel’s bad faith and lack of…
Paul White of Minneapolis claimed a third of Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot. He and his girlfriend Kim VanRees talked to reporters Thursday.Jim Mone/Associated Press Paul White, a project engineer from Ham…
Only 9 percent of fatal accidents since 1970 occurred during landing, while the vast majority happened during other phases of flight. In those other phases — which include takeoff, initial…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will be facing two opponents in November’s midterm elections.Scott Applewhite/Associated Press The fate of Democratic incumbents in GOP-trending Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina,…
Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is on trial in the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, will continue to represent himself despite his standby attorneys’ objections. Presiding judge Col.…
