government and politics

NEW YORK (AP) — Latest developments in Pope Francis' visit to the United States. All times local: 12:20 p.m. Speaking at the site of the worst terrori...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress in turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner suddenly informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign at the end ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a man in a wheelchair by Wilmington police is being investigated by a new unit within the Delaware attor...

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will be meeting Monday in New York, their first face-to-face encounter in nearly a year amid strongly tr...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Tensions escalated between Serbia and Croatia on Thursday as the longtime rivals struggled to come up with a coherent way to de...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Latest on shooting in which Delaware police say officers fatally shot a man in a wheelchair after responding to a call that he...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed a Mexican teenager in a cross-border shooting with second-...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has called British musician Elton John and agreed to meet him. This time it's for real. After John post...

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 ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a series of steps on Wednesday to lessen the burden of out-of-pocket medical bills for Americans cov...

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,...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Universities in Ohio, St. Louis and Las Vegas have been chosen to host the 2016 presidential debates, while a university in Virginia ...

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...