Nation/World

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nancy Hatch Dupree fell in love with Afghanistan on her first visit in 1962, and embarked on a lifelong mission to preserve ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The population of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank has surged during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's years in office, gr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Brennan threaded a rhetorical needle in an unprecedented televised news conference at CIA headquarters Thursday, a...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Anxiety, depression, guilt, sleeplessness, marital strife, drug and alcohol abuse — two years after the massacre at Sandy Hook E...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian government blamed Israel on Thursday for the sudden death of a Cabinet minister, citing preliminary autopsy...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for stat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In unlikely alliance, the Obama White House and House Republicans joined forces Thursday in a furious attempt to pass a $1.1 trillio...

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Activists said at least 31 people were killed Thursday when twin explosions rocked downtown Jos in central Nigeria in what appears...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A storm expected to be one of the windiest and rainiest in five years swept across the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, knocki...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pressed ahead with a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday despite genuine anger among Democrats wh...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities demolished a protest camp Thursday at the heart of the city's 2 ½-month pro-democracy movement but scores of ac...

MADRID (AP) — Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News int...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Two important U.S. NATO allies on Thursday condemned the CIA's harsh treatment of terrorist suspects detailed in a report this week, b...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli and Palestinian pathologists disagreed Thursday on whether a blow to the body or a bad heart was the main cause of ...

Jorge "Jinho" Ferreira feels the tension between being black and carrying a badge every day as a sheriff's deputy in Alameda County, California. "I fe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's harrowing torture practices a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans may not agree on much lately, but one opinion is nearly universal: There's almost no chance that President Barack Obama, a...

CHICAGO (AP) — Conservation work has started at Chicago's Field Museum on the 2,500-year-old mummy of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy. Scientists opened th...