Nation/World

PARIS (AP) — Diplomats from around the world pledged to fight Islamic State militants "by any means necessary" as Iraq asked allies to thwart the extr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft will acquire the maker of the long-running hit game Minecraft for $2.5 billion as the company continues to invest in its Xbo...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Across Scotland, dinner table talk is getting heated as families fight over how to vote in Scotland's independence referendum...

PARIS (AP) — Diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight Islamic State extremists Monday, while Iran ruled out working with any ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Barack Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President Georg...

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — A teenager convicted of killing three students at an Ohio high school scrambled over a fence to escape a state prison with two other...

DUBLIN (AP) — Much like the Ulster weather, Ian Paisley could offer beaming sunshine one minute, stinging hailstones the next. The international image...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African judge on Friday found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of girlfriend Re...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — State police say they've arrested a 22-year-old New York man after he was found with marijuana, cocaine and LSD hidden inside...

NEW YORK (AP) — With the solemn toll of a bell and a moment of silence, the nation paused Thursday to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six times, President Barack Obama has come before the American people to reckon with the legacy of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian and Iranian officials criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for excluding them from an international coalition...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — In a lengthy verdict phase climaxing Oscar Pistorius' trial, the judge said Thursday he can't be found guilty of murder ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Timothy Ray Jones Jr. earned his computer engineering degree, worked at a $71,000-a-year job, had a wife of 10 years and severa...

NEW YORK (AP) — After seeing the new National September 11 Memorial Museum, one victim's widow decided to donate one of her husband's FDNY paramedic s...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Spooked by recent polls, Prime Minister David Cameron and other British political leaders rushed north to Scotland on Wednesd...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before President Barack Obama's prime-time address on a strategy for fighting Islamic State militants, the Senate's Democratic...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. officials have made clear that Washington envisions its Sunni Arab allies, plus NATO member Turkey, playing a leading role in any u...