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Americans gather to honor fallen service members

Americans gathered at memorials, museums and monuments and the president laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day, as combat in Afghanista...

'Not racist': Common claim after slurs

It's almost a cliché. First, someone talking about blacks makes reference to fried chicken, watermelon, monkeys or dogs – or even uses the indefensible N-word. Then, along with the inevitabl...

Teen still missing after Texas flood

SCHERTZ, Texas – The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said. ...

Nation/World Briefs

Obama: Feds behind Oklahoma ‘every step’ MOORE, Okla. – President Barack Obama visited tornado-devastated Moore, Okla., Sunday, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and ...

GOP: ‘Obamacare’ to be disaster

Republicans skeptical; Dems hopeful about health-care law

Fuel-divestment effort builds

College movement modeled after anti-apartheid campaigns

Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier

Police make 3 more arrests

Thousands of U.S. bridges at risk

Wash. collapse raises questions

Nation Briefs

Missouri Highway buckles after rail cars hit overpass CHAFFEE, Mo. – A highway overpass in southeast Missouri collapsed early Saturday when rail cars slammed into one o...

Massive flooding in San Antonio kills 1; dozens rescued

SAN ANTONIO – Massive flooding from torrential rains in the San Antonio area left at least one person dead Saturday and sent emergency workers rushing in boats to rescue more than 100 reside...

Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India

NEW DELHI – Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India’s ruling Congress party in eastern India, ...

World Briefs

Roadside bomb kills two Yemeni soldiers SANAA, Yemen – Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intell...