government and politics

CHICAGO (AP) — The former head of the nation's 3rd largest school district has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge in an alleged scheme to steer $23 mill...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has heard arguments about whether hundreds of inmates imprisoned for life for murders they committed as teenagers ...

BOSTON (AP) — The owners of the beleaguered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth announced Tuesday that they will close the plant by June 2019 be...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's general election will go ahead as planned on Nov. 8 despite a proposed delay because of recent landslides and floo...

GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands (AP) — A missile launched from rebel-held Ukraine ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Dutch investi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis (all times local): ___ 6:05 p.m. Israel's prime ministe...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge is holding a hearing on the admissibility of statements made to investigators by Baltimore police officers charged in connect...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday banned a protest rally and march by trade union and civic society activists who lost friends and ...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Fifteen policemen and one civilian were injured during a violent protest by the opposition Self-Determination Party (Vetevendo...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians carried out three stabbings Monday in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition, and Prime Minister...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's opposition candidates said Monday they will not recognize provisional results for the country's presidential election,...

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Craters lie where concrete bunkers once stood, testament to the powerful explosions that occurred when a Mozambican ammuniti...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist who has been detained in Iran for more than a year on charges including espionage, h...

MOSCOW (AP) — Highlighting a new terror threat to Russia raised by its air campaign in Syria, security officials said Monday they have thwarted a plan...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley told independent voters at a New Hampshire gathering Monday that the nation ne...

LONDON (AP) — British police on Monday removed a round-the-clock guard from outside the Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian jets intensified their airstrikes Monday in central Syria as government forces battle insurgents in a strategic area ne...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Planning is underway to place a Liberty Bell replica atop Stone Mountain near Atlanta as a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luth...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Ben Carson suggested last week the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if Jews in Europe were better armed. He argued that gun ...