An Associated Press analysis of figures from the Urban Institute finds a big coverage gap developing, with 9.7 million out of 15 million potentially eligible adults living in states that…
The winds that helped fuel the fire were highly unpredictable and contributed to the rapidly shifting nature of the blaze. Arizona’s monsoon season began June 15, but didn’t produce many…
State military puts pressure on Morsi to step down
Navel gazing commonplace in these times of the selfie
The president’s address at the University of Cape Town capped an emotionally charged day in this picturesque coastal city, including a solemn visit to the Robben Island prison where Mandela…
The organization has added 10,000 photos to its “NoPetStorePuppies” website showing dogs at breeders across the U.S. with matted hair, bloody stool, long nails, injured eyes and dental disease. The…
President meets with family of former South African leader
A Pyro Spectaculars by Souza worker loads shells into mortars on a barge docked on Staten Island. Forty thousand shells are being loaded onto four barges in preparation for the…
Brent Miller stands in one of the grow rooms of his medical marijuana grow operation in Seattle. Amid growing public acceptance of marijuana use for recreational purposes, Colorado and Washington…
But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled U.S. secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing the important debate about the government’s…
Giant photographs of former president Nelson Mandela are displayed Thursday at the Nelson Mandela Legacy Exhibition at the Civic Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. People around the world are…
Attorneys with the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom claim in the petition that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted prematurely and unfairly Friday when it allowed gay marriage to…
It’s the second rescue this summer of people making a pilgrimage to the abandoned Fairbanks city bus situated north of Denali National Park and Preserve. The rescue, which was first…
Parts of Alaska, including Goose Lake near Anchorage, have been experiencing a long stretch of higher than normal temperatures. Unusual jet stream patterns are associated with such weather extremes, and…
Todd May, of Ogden, Utah, holds what he believes to be a fossilized head of a Bigfoot. He says he has also seen a couple of the creatures – alive…
Bulgarian artist Christo wants to suspend 5.9 miles worth of silvery fabric panels in sections over 42 miles of the Arkansas River.Associated Press file photo The Interior Board of Land…
New Mexico has a “very long way to go to reform education” despite gains by some students, Martinez said. The math and reading tests were taken this spring by 195,000…
Hagel didn’t elaborate on damage done during a visit to the U.S. Air Force bunker at Cheyenne Mountain outside Colorado Springs. “Sequestration and the uncertainty of sequestration is impacting and…
The competing camps were trying to show their strength before even bigger nationwide protests planned by the opposition Sunday – the first anniversary of Morsi’s inauguration – aimed at forcing…
Shawnee County District Judge Rebecca Crotty blocked two provisions. One requires providers to declare on their websites that the state health department’s information on abortions and fetal development is accurate…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a brief order saying it has dissolved a stay it imposed on gay marriages while a lawsuit challenging the state’s voter-approved ban…
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in a 22-17 party line vote, ruled that Lerner, who headed the division that oversaw nonprofits, had forfeited her right to invoke the Fifth…
Attorney Bruce Fein, who represents Lonnie Snowden, said Friday that Snowden’s father is worried that the legal counsel and travel expenses provided by WikiLeaks are part the plan to “keep…
Much of the West to endure high temperatures
