Nation/World

TOKYO (AP) — The deadline to pay a ransom for two Japanese hostages of the Islamic State group or risk their deaths loomed Friday, with no signs of pr...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who fought against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconserva...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has completed its investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, a U.S. offi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner announced on Wednesday that he's invited Israel's prime minister to stand...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Thursday it was considering all possible ways to gain the release of two hostages held by the Islamic State group, as two peop...

BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — With the dashboard camera in their cruiser rolling, police pulled a Jaguar over for running a stop sign on a dark night. But th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to bend to the new Republican Congress, President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday night an ambitious State of the Union agend...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The relatives of six family members unaccounted for after a massive fire gutted a waterfront mansion believe they were inside at...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Transportation authorities say southbound lanes of Interstate 75 through Cincinnati will be shut down for days after a closed overpa...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An AirAsia plane that crashed last month with 162 people on board was climbing at an abnormally high rate, then plunged and ...

CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive $200 million in 72 hours, directly demanding the ran...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A little-known side to the government's health insurance website is prompting renewed concerns about privacy, just as the White Hous...

ATLANTA (AP) — Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message: We've come a long ...

ALTON KUPRI, Iraq (AP) — The Islamic State group released about 200 Yazidis held for five months in Iraq, mostly elderly, infirm captives who likely s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey, fellow actors from the movie "Selma" and hundreds of others marched to recall one of the bloodiest chapters of the c...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president vowed Sunday to reassert government control over eastern regions as the army unleashed a counter-offensive ag...

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike in Syria on Sunday killed the son of a slain top Hezbollah commander and at least five other fighters in a move that c...