Nation/World

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stepped-up response to Iranian backing of Shiite rebels in Yemen, the Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi-led airstrikes hit weapons caches held by Iran-backed Shiite rebels, touching off massive explosions Monday in Yemen's capit...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's top police officials, mayor and prosecutor sought to calm a "community on edge" Monday while investigating how a man suff...

Killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in the past year have touched off a national debate about police conduct, which has only escala...

TAURANGA, New Zealand (AP) — AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court Tuesday to a charge of threatening to kill a man who used t...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A 13-year-old Spanish boy armed with a crossbow and a machete killed a substitute teacher and wounded four other people at his...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California almonds are becoming one of the world's favorite snacks and creating a multibillion-dollar bonanza for agricultural in...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Six Minnesota men have been charged with terrorism in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, the latest Westerners accused of tr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuts to Medicare and the health care law and almost $40 billion in unrequested money for overseas war-fighting operations top the ag...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to killing six of her newborn babies and storing their bodies in her garage is facing up to life...

MILAN (AP) — Rescue crews searched Monday for survivors and bodies from what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest migrant tragedy ever as hundreds m...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A jailed Washington Post reporter in Iran faces four charges, including an espionage charge, his lawyer told the newspaper Monday....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida seized control of a major airport, a sea port and an oil terminal in southern Yemen on Thursday, consolidating its hold o...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jeb Bush said Thursday he will make up his mind "in relatively short order" whether to seek the Republican nomination for presid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two out of three judges on a federal appeals court panel expressed doubts Thursday about a legal challenge to the Obama administrati...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food workers calling for $15 an hour are picking up some more allies Wednesday. Airport workers, home care workers, Walmart worke...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Caretakers of Abraham Lincoln's tomb are on the defensive over an unflattering critique in National Geographic magazine and l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives hated that it's expected to swell federal deficits over the coming decade. Liberals complained that it shortchanged he...