Nation/World

WASHINGTON (AP) — A nearly $612 billion defense policy bill headed to the House floor is at odds with the White House, a Shiite cleric in Iraq, anyone...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The poshest of luxury homes are acquiring the cachet of a masterwork by Picasso or Matisse. Rather than settle for garages of antiqu...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Pete Larson has discovered thousands of fossils around the world, co-authored three books and led the team that unearthed the larg...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police completed their investigation into the death of Freddie Gray a day earlier than planned Thursday and delivered it to the chief...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Armed Services Committee passed a nearly $612 billion defense policy bill early Thursday that seeks to change military ret...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ron Johnson was elected to Congress in 2010 as an adamant foe of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Yet facing a Su...

HOUSTON (AP) — The man at the microphone spoke in a language most Republican presidential primary voters do not understand. "You are part of the new w...

1:10 p.m. The prosecutor who is handling the case of Freddie Gray is asking the public to remain patient and peaceful as she conducts an investigation...

BERLIN (AP) — German security officials said Thursday they have foiled what could have been an imminent Boston Marathon-style terror attack after raid...

BOSTON (AP) — A former FBI agent lied to jurors during mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's trial and overstated his professional accomplishments, includin...

CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a 12-year-old Chicago girl with cancer says Taylor Swift called her to talk about music, touring and the disease. Ed Beaz...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury, NASA's Messenger, is ending its four-year tour at the solar system's innermost ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, earthquake-shattered mountain villages in Nepal on Wednesday, while thou...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Promising to fight what he deems "obscene levels" of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a "real disgrace," ...

9:10 p.m. Several dozen people have demonstrated at a busy Houston intersection to protest the death of a black man in the custody of Baltimore police...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cars rolled through the streets, students returned to class and a symphony played on a sidewalk Wednesday, offering the city a slice ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking U.S. and Russian missiles off high alert could keep a possible cyberattack from starting a nuclear war, a former commander of...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A week and a half after 25-year-old Freddie Gray died, there are still many unanswered questions about the explosive case. A look at ...