Nation/World

WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Barack Obama touted executive actions aimed at increasing energy efficiency, a bill with similar goals is expec...

DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A University of Richmond women's basketball team staff member was one of three occupants on a hot air balloon that drifted into a ...

SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Presiding over a triumphant spectacle of warships and fighter jets, President Vladimir Putin hailed the return of Crimea to ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man shot his wife and two teenage children in the head, then scattered gasoline and fireworks around the mansion they ren...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was boos...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Democratic complaints, Republicans jumped into a new election-season investigation of the deadly Benghazi assault on Friday,...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — In a rare move, military criminal investigators raided Marine Corps defense counsel offices at Camp Pendleton and opened case files d...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A man, his wife and their two teenage children were shot before the million-dollar home they were renting burned down in what inves...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for health secretary faced pointed questioning Thursday from Republican senators over the president...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, r...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Residents of a Nigerian town attacked by Boko Haram criticized security forces for failing to intervene even though they had be...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels bombed a once luxurious, historic hotel being used as a government army base in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday, l...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine decided Thursday to go ahead with Sunday's referendum on autonomy or even indepen...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Detectives were not looking for any suspects in the deaths of a family found inside a burning Tampa home, but authorities stopped s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria by an Islamic extremist group ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans voted Wednesday to hold a former Internal Revenue Service official in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify...

Colorado lawmakers approved the world's first financial system for the marijuana industry Wednesday, a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday moved toward an election-year special investigation of the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in...