general news

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Rand bought his Volkswagen Passat last year for its clean emissions and high gas mileage. He liked the car so much he convinced...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Giant Sequoias growing in California's Sierra Nevada are among the largest and oldest living things on earth, but...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former Border Patrol agent broke down in tears as he described desperately trying to save the life of a colleague who was shot ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An effort to identify remains of young men killed by John Wayne Gacy in the 1970s has led to a break in the case of a teenager found sh...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced a surprise trip to Cuba Wednesday for a meeting with guerrilla commanders tha...

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For two Muslim siblings from the city of Bradford in Britain, it was a lifelong dream that their father take them on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first pope from the Americas is ready to elevate to sainthood an 18th-century missionary who brought Catholicism to what is now ...

BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned Wednesday, days after admitting that the world's top-selling carmaker had rigged diesel emissi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq, which is already facing a prolonged battled against the Islamic State group and mass protests against government corruption and i...

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian witness on Wednesday disputed the Israeli army's account of a fatal shooting in the West Bank the previous day,...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — An 18-year-old Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself can face an involuntary manslaughter charge,...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-trained rebels who recently returned to Syria said Wednesday they have lost contact with one of their officers and that they are in...

CAMERON, La. (AP) — Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — By one measure, the 2016 presidential campaign has made more news at this early stage than any of the six previous contests. ABC, CBS ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Three weeks of growing fear among Phoenix drivers after a series of freeway shootings briefly eased when Arizona's governor blasted the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is taking his skills mocking celebrities to the stage. He's starring in an unauthorized off-Broadway mu...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man accused of trying to drown his two young daughters initially told residents of an apartment complex he beli...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mutt from a Massachusetts animal shelter who got a new life as a K-9 drug-detection dog stars in an upcoming episode of a new PBS...

RIVER FOREST, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man has spent up to 10 hours every day for 11 years cleaning and fixing 1,500 paintings for museums nationwide. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a gift to many musicians, movie-makers and other content-creators, a federal judge has found that the song "Happy Birthday To Yo...