Nation/World

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Workers were dismantling a scaffold at a high-rise construction project on Monday when a piece of it fell to the ground in downto...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghanistan's president kicked off his Washington visit Monday by thanking U.S. troops and taxpayers for their sacrifices in nearly ...

KENNER, La. (AP) — Authorities say the machete-wielding man who was shot at New Orleans' international airport after trying to attack passengers and s...

In a survival story his doctors call extraordinary, a 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy whose lifeless body was pulled from an icy creek was revived after...

PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal and state authorities are investigating the hanging death of a black man in Mississippi who had been missing for mor...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people at a museum. But Tunisian authoriti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress advanced balanced-budget plans bristling with cuts in Medicaid and other benefit programs Thursday, determin...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against t...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An arrest that left a University of Virginia student bloodied and shouting allegations of racism has prompted some lawmakers to q...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Students at the University of Virginia are demanding justice for a student who was injured during an arrest and appears in...

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A woman advertising baby clothes on Craigslist lured a pregnant stranger to her Colorado home and then stabbed her in the belly...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Jeb Bush is betting his political future these days on the hope that pragmatism will trump conservative hostility in 2016. F...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A draft nuclear accord now being negotiated between the United States and Iran would force Iran to cut hardware it could ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The radical Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack on a famed Tunis museum that left 23 people dead,...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of a center-left union that came in second in Israel's election said Thursday he would not join Prime Minister Benjamin Neta...

TANNA ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) — When her roof started collapsing during the cyclone, Christine Iakangem felt she had no choice but to grab her 1-week-old...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Czech tourist suffered minor injuries when a polar bear attacked the tent he was sleeping in on the remote Arctic archipe...