government and politics

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. Air Force C-130J military transport plane crashed overnight at an air base in eastern Afghanistan, killing six Americ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his government condemn the murder...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister said Friday that airstrikes against the Islamic State group "are useless" unless they are coordinated w...

PARIS (AP) — The presidents of Russia and France, which both started bombing Syria this week, held talks Friday about their military operations as the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The long-time female companion of an ex-fugitive deep-sea treasure hunter has been sentenced to a month behind bars. Alison Ante...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — This small town in southern Oregon's timber country strongly supports gun rights, and that hasn't changed for the county's top l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A grim President Barack Obama says the U.S. has "become numb" to mass shootings like Thursday's incident in Oregon, where 20-year-ol...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least nine people before dying in a shootout with ...

LANDER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming man pleaded guilty Thursday in the shooting two American Indian men that exposed racial tensions in a reservation border...

NEW YORK (AP) — Now, 1,506 days since the Obama administration first declared that Syrian President Bashar Assad's "days are numbered," he's still the...

PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metro Phoenix repeatedly shifted blame to his subordinates Thursday as he was subjected to questioning in federal court...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has set a new national ozone standard, tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution linked to asthma and...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian jets carried out a second day of airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, but there were conflicting claims about whether they were targ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Excited shoppers looking to score some of the first recreational marijuana sold legally in Oregon bought up baggies of bud early...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The death toll in the Saudi hajj disaster rose sharply Thursday as Iran announced 465 of its pilgrims died in last week's stampede...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Thursday that would overhaul the nation's criminal justice system, allowing s...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government claimed Thursday that it had successfully retaken the northern city of Kunduz from Taliban militants w...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Bodies keep turning up in Burundi, dumped at roadsides and in streams. Mass arrests are being carried out. The killings and ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip was just minutes away from his scheduled lethal injection, stripped of all his belon...