Nation/World

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A geyser of oil sprayed onto buildings and puddled in knee-high pools of crude in Los Angeles streets after a valve on a high-press...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell sharply midday Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average slumping more than 200 points, as disappointing econom...

Forget about their students not making it to graduation. Now colleges have to wonder whether their speakers will. From former Secretary of State Condo...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — The villagers knew an attack was coming, so they used the dark of night to ambush the suspected Boko Haram militants, killing s...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Amy Miner says her late husband's fight did not end when he left the war. As with many veterans, Kryn Miner's battle against th...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An international rights group is pushing the federal government and the tobacco industry to take further steps to protect childre...

The number of possible victims of a teacher suspected of drugging and molesting boys during a four-decade career at nearly a dozen schools around the ...

DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Congressman John Conyers of Michigan doesn't have enough signatures to appear on the Aug. 5 primary ballot, an elections offic...

MIAMI (AP) — The first thing Michelle Pool did before picking a plan under President Barack Obama's health insurance law was check whether her longtim...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It could have been over for Kyle J. White just 30 seconds into the Taliban ambush, when a rocket-propelled grenade knocked him uncon...

SOMA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground early Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their capto...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany's foreign minister on Tuesday tried to broker a quick launch of talks between Ukraine's central government and pro-Russia...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — People should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a search of their own name online, Europe's highest court ...

WHARTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two workers died after they were trapped as the ground failed at a West Virginia coal mine with a history of safety violations, ...

General Motors' recall of 2.6 million small cars has shed light on an unsettling fact: Air bags might not always deploy when drivers — and federal reg...

He was one of the most beloved teachers in the small world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off American expatriate...

WASHINGTON — Want your child to go to a state-funded pre-K program? Choose your home state wisely. A new report to be released Tuesday finds wide disp...