Nation/World

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exposed to the light of day, a year-end, $1.1 trillion spending bill drew vociferous objections from liberals and milder criticism f...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe they want to sing on Broadway. Humpback whales, the gigantic, endangered mammals known for their haunting underwater songs, have...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California residents are bracing for a powerful storm that could be the biggest in five years and prompted the National ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 150 cattle valued at about $350,000 have been reported missing in southeastern Idaho, and authorities suspect modern-day...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angered at the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers marched through downtown Berkeley ...

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says Detroit's bankruptcy is officially ending. Snyder said during a news conference Wednesday that the natio...

GENEVA (AP) — Senior U.S. officials who authorized and carried out torture as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must ...

MELIANDOU, Guinea (AP) — When 2-year-old Emile Ouamouno caught a fever, started vomiting, passed blood in his stool and died two days later, nobody kn...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai offered hope Wednesday that her prize will inspire young girls all over the world to fight f...

TURMUS AYA, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian Cabinet member died Wednesday shortly after he and other protesters scuffled with Israeli troops near a Wes...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through Berkeley for a third night a row, blocking a major highway and stopping a train as activist...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans on Tuesday grilled a health adviser who has demeaned the president's health law, but Democrats highlighted...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate investigators delivered a damning indictment of CIA practices Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of inflicting pain and sufferi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that his army is taking the offensive against t...

PARIS (AP) — A Frenchman held for more than three years by al-Qaida's North African branch was freed Tuesday, days after two of the men implicated in ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The current U.N. climate talks will be the first to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution they generate, offset by host countr...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Street prices for illegal ivory are soaring in China, where newly wealthy middle and upper class citizens are buying carved ivor...