Visitors at Red Rocks National Recreation Area look out at the Spring Mountains with smoke from a wildfire billowing behind on Mount Charleston on Wednesday near Las Vegas. More than…
Asiana Airlines President and CEO Yoon Young-doo answers reporters’ questions Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, before heading to San Francisco.LEE JIN-MAN/Associated Press The president issued a statement of regret. With…
After days of deadlock, Egypt’s military-backed interim president named a veteran economist as prime minister on Tuesday and appointed pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei as a vice president, while the army…
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Boehner told reporters Tuesday that President Barack Obama should grant individuals a reprieve from the Affordable Care Act’s coverage requirement – just like the…
The Whitewoods – Landon, 2, Susan, 49, Abbey, 16, Katie, 14, and Deb, 45 appear together after a news conference to announce that they are the lead plaintiffs in a…
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with the president and later said the PLUS loan was the first topic they discussed. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, the chair of the…
Zimmerman’s attorneys called a forensics computer analyst to tell the judge presiding over the trial that text messages on Martin’s cellphone showed he was trying to buy or sell a…
Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney, didn’t take notes or confer with his former defense attorneys who will help if he asks. During the nearly two-hour…
“Anyone who has been a judge will tell you a judge needs to hear both sides of a case,” Robertson, a former federal district judge based in Washington who served…
The new figures reflect additional revenues generated by the improving economy and take into account automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that the White House had hoped to avert. The White House…
Congress returned to work Monday, and Republicans and Democrats face potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of whether lawmakers…
Hassan Ammar/Associated Press<br><br>Opponents of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi burn pictures showing the U.S. President Barack Obama during a rally outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday. Egypt’s…
Vera Scroggins, an independent videographer, is among a determined group of anti-fracking activists who have helped keep shale-gas development out of New York state while neighboring Pennsylvania has experienced a…
Whitworth, the lead fuels technician for Wildfire Mitigation with the Colorado Springs Fire Department, collects twigs, leaves and other fuel materials to test moisture content and determine fire behavior and…
The Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the Western Expansion Pipeline III project comes just a week after President Barack Obama unveiled his plan for combating climate change, part of…
The image appears to show the scene of where the 19 firefighters died, after an honor guard draped the body bags with flags while preparing to remove them from the…
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords greets Jackie Barden, right, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden, on Friday as local supporter Mary Ann Sosnoff, center, stands…
A worker dusts a floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. Edward Snowden, who is accused of leaking national security secrets, twice cleared the federal…
Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile River bridge toward Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, threatening a showdown moments after the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood defiantly…
FILE – In this March 27, 2013 file photo, demonstrators hold flags and chant in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the second day of gay marriage cases…
This undated image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a poster that has been displayed in Chinatown in Manhattan and in Asian neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens…
Davis now a polarizing figure on abortion
A doctor attends to a student from Government Secondary School in Mamudo, at the Potiskum General Hospital, Nigeria, after an attack by gunmen Saturday that killed at least 30 people,…
Egyptians carry coffins of two opponents of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi who were killed during clashes with supporters of Morsi in Cairo, on Saturday. Arabic read: “martyrs of Al-Manial.”Amr…
In this authenticated citizen journalism image taken Wednesday, buildings are damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria, where on Saturday, government troops…
