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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared victory following an election marred by violence today.Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared victory following an election marred by violence Saturday.
Friday, May 10, 2013
The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has held new talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the stalled transfer of a key detention center to Afghan control.
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Venezuela's government has revealed for the first time that President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy as he "continues his battle for life."
Saturday, March 02, 2013
The president and Republicans used their weekly media messages to blame one another.
Monday, February 25, 2013
A second major winter storm was bearing down on the central Plains Sunday, forcing cancellations and sending public works crews scrambling.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
A Lebanese judge on Wednesday indicted three people, including a former Cabinet minister and a top Syrian intelligence general, in a bombing plot in Lebanon.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Beijing's air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, prompting a transparent response from the government.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
A gunman and three other people are dead after an hours-long standoff with police at a home in Aurora, Colo.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Bashar Assad has outlined a new peace initiative that includes a national reconciliation conference and a new constitution.
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Officials have canceled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
At Egypt's Pyramids, the desperation of vendors to sell can be a little frightening for some tourists.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
President Barack Obama's proposes $60.4 billion in aid for states hit by Superstorm Sandy.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Despite Concessions from President Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's liberal opposition called for more protests Sunday.
Friday, October 19, 2012
The radical Islamist group Boko Haram may be the source of violence against Chinese workers in Nigeria.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Ahead of trip to the U.S., Egypt's President Morsi says he wants to be 'real friends' with the U.S.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Ann Romney's plane makes emergency landing.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Two protesters die in militia compound attack.
Monday, August 20, 2012
For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and financier Darla Moore.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
President Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod says the Medicare changes supported by Rep. Paul Ryan, the likely Republican vice presidential candidate, would put the popular health-care plan for the elderly in "a death spiral."
Saturday, August 11, 2012
The man who pleaded guilty in the Arizona mass shooting that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has returned to the Missouri federal prison where he is being treated for a mental illness.
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
The death toll blamed on storms and the ensuing blackout across the eastern U.S. is now at 26 after two accidents in Virginia.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A UN report released Monday includes Syrian government forces for the first time on a list of 52 governments and armed groups that recruit, kill or sexually attack children in armed conflicts.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Strong wind gusts will likely keep spreading a wildfire that has grown to nearly 10 square miles and prompted the evacuation of a historic Arizona mining town.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Top member of the Afghan peace council killed Sunday in Kabul. Could be a major blow to efforts to negotiate an end to the decade-long war.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Partial election results show the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice party leading with 36.6 percent in Egypt's election.
Saturday, December 03, 2011
The Arab League has approved details of sanctions against Syria aimed at pressuring the regime to end its deadly eight-month crackdown on dissent.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Mexican Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora, a leading figure in the country's bloody unpopular war on drug traffickers, died Friday.
Friday, October 14, 2011
President Barack Obama said Friday he's dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord's Resistance Army.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Apple Inc. said the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday. He was 56.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Three scientists whose discoveries on the immune system opened up new avenues for prevention and treatment won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Four earthquakes in less than two hours killed at least one person in Guatemala Monday.
Friday, September 16, 2011
A French anti-racism group has threatened to sue Apple over an iPhone application called "A Jew or Not a Jew?"
Sunday, August 21, 2011
A hurricane warning was issued Sunday for Puerto Rico and the northern Coast of the Dominican Republic.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
An Afghan official says a bomb has exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Could the U.S. lose its top credit rating even if a deal is reached to raise the debt limit?
Monday, July 25, 2011
President Obama criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
House Speaker John Boehner says Congress will decide on "a responsible path forward" even though talks seem to be making little headway.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
A Roman Catholic diocese has submitted a cash offer to buy the financially struggling Crystal Cathedral church founded by Rev. Robert H. Schuller.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
A senior Libyan official accused NATO of intensifying its bombing to lay the groundwork for an advance by rebels.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has won the presidential straw poll at the Republican Leadership Conference.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
It could take several days for thousands of stranded travelers to get home after a United Airlines computer system shut down for several hours.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.'s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
An Associated Press source says Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from a Houston hospital.
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Austan Goolsbee, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, will resign his post as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
The website is awash with neo-Nazi symbolism, calling the Mauthausen death camp Austria's largest open-air museum.
Monday, May 09, 2011
Maureen Murphy, mother of fallen Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, took part in dedicating a Navy warship in his honor.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
NRA keynote speaker and former Gov. Mike Huckabee didn't say whether he'll be a Republican presidential candidate next year.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
At least two pastors from an underground Beijing church were in police custody and numerous other leaders remained under house arrest Sunday.
Friday, April 08, 2011
The federal judge who struck down California's gay marriage ban has confirmed longtime rumors that he's gay.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Get the latest developments in Japan's 9.0 earthquake and tsunami disasters and the ongoing nuclear crisis.
Friday, March 18, 2011
For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest planet, Mercury.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The estimate of 78 years and 2 months is for a baby born in 2009, and comes from a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Americans paid more for food and gas in February, as consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Builders broke ground last month on the fewest homes in nearly two years, a reflection of declines in home prices and diminished demand that has made it difficult for them to compete.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Japan's nuclear crisis is spiking demand in the U.S. and a few other places for a cheap drug that can protect against one type of radiation damage.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday toured Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan insists the military can boost Afghan security forces to fight the Taliban and begin a troop drawdown this summer.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A few hospitals are opening ERs specially designed for seniors, without all the confusion and clamor and with a little more comfort.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Federal Reserve meets Tuesday at a time of widening economic risks.
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Three Dutch marines are being held by authorities in Libya after they were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Egypt's top prosecutor requested on Monday to freeze the foreign assets of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Billy Ray Cyrus says the Disney TV show "Hannah Montana" destroyed his family, causing his divorce and sending daughter Miley Cyrus spinning out of control.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The PA settled a 15-year-old federal lawsuit over the shooting deaths of a couple driving home from a wedding in Israel.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
President Obama's budget submission will take a surgical approach to a deficit problem that Republicans say warrants a meat ax.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Israeli demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
The young Google Inc. executive detained by Egyptian authorities for 12 days said Monday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark "the revolution of the youth of the Internet."
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Police say they're searching for two suspects in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people, including six students.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Iraqi state TV is reporting that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki won't run for a third time when his current term is up in 2014.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Barbie, American Girl and new Monster High dolls were all strong sellers for the nation's largest toy maker during the quarter, sending revenue up 9 percent.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Authorities scrambled to airlift hospital patients from the path of a cyclone roaring toward waterlogged northeastern Australia.
Monday, January 31, 2011
The number of cholera cases has jumped to 111 in Venezuela as more people tested positive after attending a wedding with contaminated food in the Dominican Republic.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
A Los Angeles Unified School District spokesman says two students were wounded in an accidental shooting at a high school.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is taking his second medical leave of absence in two years, raising serious questions about his health.
Monday, January 17, 2011
The first American ambassador to Syria since 2005 arrived in Damascus on Sunday.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned congressional leaders Thursday that failure to raise the debt level could affect millions of American jobs.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Workers up and down the East Coast are tugging on their boots and lugging out their snow shovels as a treacherous winter storm crawls up the coast.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
The Senate has voted to overturn the military's ban on openly gay troops and sent the bill to President Barack Obama.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Scientists have taken a first step toward improving those problematic PSA tests for prostate cancer.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2010.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Retail sales rose for a fifth straight month in November, as the biggest jump in department store sales in two years gave the holiday shopping season a strong start.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A Yale University study has good news for parents wanting to avoid serving super-sugary cereals.
Friday, December 03, 2010
The U.S. Air Force's secrecy-shrouded X-37B unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth early Friday after more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has been censured by the House for financial and fundraising misconduct.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust is facing expulsion from his order for hiring a lawyer linked to the neo-Nazi movement.
Monday, November 22, 2010
All 29 miners trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine were lifted to safety Monday.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Myanmar's military government freed its archrival, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on Saturday after her latest term of detention expired.
Friday, November 12, 2010
International aid groups said Thursday they're launching a mass polio immunization campaign in three Central African nations.
Monday, November 08, 2010
Tests have uncovered oil leaks in three Rolls-Royce engines on Qantas' grounded Airbus A380s, the airline's CEO said Monday.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Somali pirates seized a German freight ship off the coast of Kenya on Sunday.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Three California beaches were shut down Saturday after a deadly attack on a bodyboarder.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps in the capital.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tom Bosley, the patient, understanding father on television's long-running "Happy Days," has died. He was 83.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Verizon Wireless could pay out up to $90 million in refunds to cell phone customers who were improperly charged.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
A Montana resident believed to be the world's oldest man celebrated his 114th birthday Tuesday at a retirement home in Great Falls.
Monday, September 20, 2010
A Utah blaze sparked at a machine gun firing range prompted some 1,200 evacuations Sunday.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Oil prices climbed to near $76 a barrel Friday in Asia as better economic indicators from Japan to the U.S. boosted confidence that demand for fuel will improve.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
FBI officials say a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok landed safely at the LA airport after a bomb scare.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Egyptian president announced plans Wednesday to start building the country's first nuclear power plant.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Holocaust denial is common among Arabs.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Government documents show that more than 23,000 workers are affected by the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Friday, August 13, 2010
The new U.S. commander in Afghanistan says the goal of starting an American pullback by July 2011 will depend on conditions at the time.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said Thursday his organization is preparing to release the balance of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The rate at which women died from breast cancer dropped faster in Britain than in any other major European country during the last two decades
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A groundbreaking training exercise has ended after U.S. and Russian fighter jets crisscrossed the Pacific in pursuit of a 'hijacked' airliner.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Kagan has been sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Letters by Teheran's envoys suggest major progress is unlikely, with Teheran combative and unlikely to offer any concessions.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Iraqi government figures show civilian casualties hitting highest level in more than two years.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles Saturday, spewing plumes of thick smoke into a nearby town.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The tea party is not a racist group, says Vice President Joe Biden, though he believes that some of those involved in the movement have expressed racist views.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion with three months still to go in the current budget year.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
While the nuber of Afghan civilians killed by international forces is dropping, more civilians are dying in escalating violence.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
China tried Wednesday to allay concern about the political impact of its $2.5 trillion foreign reserves.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Army Gen. Ray Odierno says U.N. peacekeepers may be needed after American troops leave in 2011 if tensions between Kurds and Arabs aren't resolved.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
The schedule for Queen Elizabeth II's visit to New York City includes a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks and addresses to the United Nations.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Tragedy struck the Bellevue, Iowa, Fourth of July parade when a pair of runaway coach horses killed one spectator and injured 23 others.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Ford Motor Co. says it's making another $4 billion payment on its huge debt.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.2 quake was centered in a sparsely populated, mountainous area of Oaxaca near the southern Pacific coast.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
A Chinese democracy activist who has already spent a decade in prison has been detained again, a human rights group said on Wednesday.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his first visit to Latin America.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, says its profit sank 11 percent in the fiscal third quarter because of health care reform expenses.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The Health Ministry notes that in 2009, 46.6 percent of Brazil's 190 million people were overweight.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Manute Bol, a lithe 7-foot-7 shot-blocker from Sudan who spent 10 seasons in the NBA and was dedicated to humanitarian work in Africa, died Saturday. He was 47.
Friday, June 18, 2010
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has rattled northern Japan.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
China's President Hu Jintao will attend next week's G-20 meeting in Toronto but does not want to discuss China's exchange rate policy.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
A new exhibition recounting the fate of Poles - both Jews and non-Jews - during World War II opened in southern Poland.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it will cut about 9,000 jobs and take $1 billion in charges over three years as it creates fully automated commercial data centers.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Gary Coleman, child star of 1970s show "Diff'rent Strokes," dies after intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Health officials say one reason so many American kids are overweight is that few have a nearby place to play and exercise.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Archaeologists unearthed 57 Egyptian tombs, most with a wooden sarcophagus containing a mummy.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The downtown Philadelphia building that houses the Liberty Bell and the streets around it have been evacuated because of a suspicious item that looks like a balloon.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
There's a push to bring Martian rock and soil samples back to Earth which could be analyzed for fossilized traces of signs of life.
Monday, May 17, 2010
General Motors Co. says it rode cost cuts and strong sales of new models to its first quarterly profit in nearly three years.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Asian stock markets tumbled in early trading Monday as fresh worries over debt woes in Europe dampened sentiment across the region.
Friday, May 14, 2010
A Gaza resident said Hamas police abused him over allegations that he had sexual relations with women who were not his wife.
Friday, May 14, 2010
The United States moved to head off a joint Turkish-Brazilian effort to help Iran avoid new United Nations sanctions.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
An adoption agency says it's asking a court to launch an investigation to determine whether a Russian boy was abused, neglected or abandoned.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Police cleared the streets of Times Square after a cooler was discovered on the same block where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
A magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook southern Peru near the Chilean border late Wednesday.
Monday, May 03, 2010
BP says it will pay "all necessary and appropriate clean-up costs" from the blown-out oil well that has caused a massive slick that continues to swell in the Gulf of Mexico.
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Vatican will finance new research into the potential use of adult stem cells in the treatment of intestinal and possibly other diseases, officials announced Friday.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Protesters marched in Hollywood on Sunday to demand equal Social Security benefits for same-sex couples.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
An experimental anti-poverty program that pays the poor for maintaining good habits has not been life-changing.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Xerox Corp. said Tuesday that Chairman Anne M. Mulcahy, who is credited with turning the company around over the past decade, plans to retire in May.
Friday, March 26, 2010
The SEC is reviewing the use of financial derivatives by mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investments to determine whether new protections are needed for investors.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Food coupons for Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp have been found in the attic of a nearby house, where they had lain unseen for decades.
Monday, March 22, 2010
North Korea said Monday that it will put an American on trial for illegally entering the country from China.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
A U.N. spokesman says a small earthquake in northern Haiti has collapsed an apartment building and killed two people.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Pakistan's navy successfully test-fired a series of missiles and torpedoes Friday.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Firefighters and paramedics called Oscar Rodriguez of Las Vegas, Nev., a hero for his help at the scene of a bus crash.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Turkey recalled its U.S. envoy after a U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution acknowledging the Armenian genocide.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Syria claims Israel was the source of suspicious uranium particles found at a Syrian desert complex.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Key Western powers have sent a revised proposal for new sanctions against Iran to Russia and China.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
US Airways Group Inc. said Wednesday that severe winter storms on the East Coast in February cost it $30 million in lost sales.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
The White House's top health care official is optimistic that Democrats will have the votes to pass a major health care overhaul.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Turkish police have detained 51 military commanders for allegedly planning to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government.
Monday, February 22, 2010
An aide to Dick Cheney says the former vice president is in George Washington Hospital after experiencing chest pains.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a bout with pneumonia.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei sharply criticized Egypt's ruling system Sunday.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A judge sentenced a Canadian resident to life in prison on Wednesday for his role in a terror plot against Germany and Austria.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Career diplomat Robert Ford will become the first U.S. ambassador to Syria since 2005.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Vatican plans to post some World War Two archives online to calm the controversy over Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A top German investigator testified Tuesday that there are inconsistencies in John Demjanjuk's story.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
About 100 Iranians protested Tuesday in front of the Italian embassy in Teheran, shouting "Death to Italy, Death to Berlusconi.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Iran's supreme leader predicted the destruction of Israel in comments posted on his Web site on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
North Korea says it is firing artillery off its west coast as part of an annual military drill and will continue to do so.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
McCain says the Supreme Court has spoken on the constitutionality of political contributions by corporations.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Carl Smith, a country music hitmaker of the 1950s and 1960s known for his dynamic voice and good looks, has died.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" received a death sentence for his part in a poison gas attack on Halabja.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A judge in Virginia says parts of a $10 million lawsuit filed by the families of two students slain in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech can go forward.
Monday, January 11, 2010
A United Airlines jetliner landed safely on Sunday without one of its landing gear fully deployed.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Yemen's president said he is ready to open a dialogue with al-Qaeda fighters who lay down their weapons and renounce violence.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Officials say a church has been set on fire in Malaysia by unidentified attackers amid a growing conflect in the country over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Part of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been evacuated after a police dog detected a suspicious bag that arrived on an incoming flight.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Dick Cheney's withering criticism of the Obama White House's terrorism-fighting policies came under an equally harsh response Sunday.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Iran is warning it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel.
Friday, January 01, 2010
The countdown is on for one of the nation's biggest New Year's celebrations, the Tournament of Roses Parade.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Health officials say swine flu was widespread in only four states last week, indicating the fall wave of illness is still declining.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Johnson & Johnson is expanding a voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis Caplets due to reports of a moldy smell that can cause nausea and sickness.
Monday, December 28, 2009
State media says a coal mine explosion has killed 12 people in northern China, while 11 other miners are trapped.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Rescue teams combed the waters of Manila Bay on Thursday for at least 27 people missing after a passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The U.S. has transferred a dozen Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region as the Obama administration prepares for the facility's closure.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff.
Friday, December 11, 2009
The legislation is designed to address the shortfalls that led to last year's calamitous financial meltdown.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant U.S. military presence in Afghanistan for two years to four more years.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
The Egyptian government is struggling with a populace increasingly embracing fundamentalist Islam, personified by the niqab.
Monday, November 23, 2009
An Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she had become too Westernized has pleaded not guilty in a Phoenix court.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Abortion rights supporters in Congress are asking President Barack Obama for a meeting.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A former student held a school administrator hostage for more than an hour Tuesday morning, then surrendered to police without firing a shot.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 in central Vietnam on Thursday.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway says it has agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too high, but that the priorities now are economic growth and job creation.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Maine Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday urged residents to vote against repealing the state's same-sex marriage law.
Monday, October 26, 2009
An official says 22 Malaysian schoolchildren are feared drowned after they fell into a river when a bridge they were walking on collapsed.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency.
Friday, October 23, 2009
A Malaysian woman who gave premature birth to a boy on board an airplane minutes before it landed will get free flights for life along with her child.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Ford Motor Co. says it will add 4.5 million older-model vehicles to the list of those recalled because a defective cruise control switch could cause a fire.
Monday, October 05, 2009
A judge has ruled the man accused of gunning down a legendary Iowa high school football coach is mentally competent to stand trial.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
An Ohio woman who gave birth to a baby boy after a fertility clinic implanted her with the wrong embryo is a "guardian angel," the boy's biological parents said Saturday.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling 57 lots of infants' and children's liquid Tylenol products because of possible bacterial contamination.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A wildfire stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds has burned some 8,500 acres in the hills of Ventura County.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Four people were injured and the busiest border crossing in the U.S. was closed to northbound vehicle traffic for hours on Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, has been taken to a hospital after a fall at home in the Washington suburbs.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Steve Monforto made a nice catch when he snagged a foul ball at Tuesday night's Phillies game, What his toddler did next -- and Monforto's response -- have turned him into a pop culture hero.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Monti was shot to death in the Afghan mountains in 2006 while trying for the third time to save a wounded comrade.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Connecticut's state medical examiner says a Yale University grad student died of traumatic asphyxiation.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Officials at the prime minister's office say Aso and his Cabinet resigned after having their final Cabinet meeting early Wednesday.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Prosecutors in Hungary have questioned suspected Nazi war criminal Sandor Kepiro about the murder of civilians in Serbia during World War II.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
An appeals court in China overturned the death penalty Tuesday in a drunk driving case, sentencing the defendant instead to life imprisonment.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
TUCSON, Ariz. - Despite the tough economy, officials with the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon say contributions and pledges from this year's Labor Day event totaled nearly $60.5 million.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
A Taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack near the military airport in Kabul.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Obama asserted that "our recovery plan is working," but repeated that he won't be satisfied until jobs are much more plentiful.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
A powerful earthquake in Indonesia has killed at least 44 people and injured dozens of others.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Three Texas fishermen endured hunger, blistering heat, scares from sharks and hallucinations, but never gave up hope they'd be rescued.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
If it stays on its northwestern track, it could carry hurricane-force winds to the tip of resort-dotted Baja California by late Monday.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, Sunday.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Crowds lined the streets of two cities on a day that marked the end of an American political era.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
President Barack Obama and his family plan to leave Martha's Vineyard Sunday afternoon and fly home to Washington.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Taiwan said Thursday it has agreed to let the Dalai Lama visit the island to comfort survivors of a devastating typhoon.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Opponents of the 2007 law claim it is overly intrusive and could turn thousands of good parents into criminals.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Caster Semenya learned to ignore the taunts. She ran alone across a landscape of high grasses dotted with rocky hills.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes former President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
A Myanmar court found Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
A system that is supposed to help subway trains avoid crashes malfunctioned months before the deadly Washington Metro crash in June.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
At least nine people were killed and nine others missing Monday in western Japan after Typhoon Etau slammed into the country.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
A former Louisiana congressman accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes was convicted in federal court Wednesday.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
A judge balked at signing off on a $33 million settlement between the SEC and Bank of America Corp. over executive bonuses.
Monday, August 03, 2009
A powerful earthquake Monday shook the fishing villages along Mexico's Gulf of California.
Monday, August 03, 2009
PBS is launching an online cross-country adventure for children starring two brothers - who happen to be gophers.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Senate Democrats alone cannot pass President Barack Obama's ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is offering a glimpse of atmospheric debris from an object that plunged into Jupiter in a rare collision with the planet.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Loved ones, friends and colleagues gathered Thursday for Walter Cronkite's funeral as flowers arrived at the church and tourists lingered outside to pay their respects.
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Los Angeles County coroner's office says it will take longer than first expected to complete Michael Jackson's full autopsy report.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Southwest Airlines ordered inspections of nearly 200 aircraft after a football-sized hole opened up in the passenger cabin of a plane during flight.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history, the LA police chief said on Thursday.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Obama administration says vaccinations against swine flu are likely and probably will begin in mid-October.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The government says the number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The world-famous Getty Center art complex and nearby Mount St. Mary's College were evacuated Wednesday.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
In a London park stands a new forest of steel pillars - each representing a victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the British capital's transit system.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
The family of Karl Malden says the actor who won an Oscar for his role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" has died at age 97.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
French officials were on guard after an al-Qaeda affiliate threatened vengeance for Sarkozy's criticism of the face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
A powerful House committee chairman with a central role in President Barack Obama's global warming and health care legislation has been hospitalized.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
President Obama promises to support grassroots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Search crews in the mid-Atlantic have retrieved the bodies of the chief pilot of Flight 447 and a flight attendant, Air France said Thursday.
Monday, June 22, 2009
President Nicolas Sarkozy said the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa is a sign of the 'debasement' of women and that it won't be welcome in France.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Family and friends remember a guard who was killed last week at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a man with a big heart.
Friday, June 19, 2009
President Barack Obama says the biblical command to "love thy neighbor as thyself" is as pertinent now as ever.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Congress is sending President Obama a $106 billion bill ensuring that the military will have the money to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thursday, June 18, 2009
A suicide bombing outside a hotel in western Somalia killed at least 20 people Thursday including the national security minister.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The total number of people on the unemployment insurance rolls has dropped for the first time since early January.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The American Medical Association says there's no scientific proof to back up claims of anti-aging hormones.
Monday, June 15, 2009
The Los Angeles Lakers have won their 15th championship, beating the Orlando Magic 99-86 in Game 5 of the NBA finals.
Friday, June 12, 2009
A U.S. Navy ship is participating in the search for the remains of more than 1,000 U.S. servicemen missing from the Vietnam War, the first time an American vessel has taken part, embassy officials said Friday.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
A U.S. government official says North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Police say five or six men shooting automatic rifles opened fire Monday on a mosque in Narathiwat province.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle Monday morning in an airport stumble on her way to Washington.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife after a passenger on their flight exhibited flu-like symptoms.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Police say a gun scare at Princeton University began when four teen boys found a toy gun on campus.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A federal appeals court says the city of Detroit did not violate the Constitution when it partially reimbursed churches for renovations before the Super Bowl.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is asking the Obama administration to declare Volusia County a major disaster area.
Monday, May 25, 2009
A woman in her 50s is New York City's second confirmed death linked to swine flu.
Friday, May 22, 2009
A strong earthquake swayed skyscrapers in Mexico City and rattled colonial buildings in neighboring Puebla state Friday.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Making a swine flu vaccine appears to be more difficult than experts first thought, the World Health Organization acknowledged Tuesday.
Monday, May 18, 2009
American Express said Monday it is eliminating about 4,000 jobs as part of a plan to slash another $800 million in costs.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Jay Leno bounced back from an illness, returning to 'Tonight' with jokes about swine flu and the 103-degree fever that sent him to the hospital.