government and politics

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With a big anniversary drawing near, North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel p...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday strongly defended Moscow's military assistance to the Syrian government, saying it's impossi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters on Tuesday in a third straight day of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy si...

MOSCOW (AP) — A close associate of Vladimir Putin, who recently lost his job as Russia's railways chief in a reshuffle seen as a sign of increasing Kr...

LONDON (AP) — It was an unexpected photo opportunity, as Ai Weiwei stood inside London's Royal Academy of Arts Tuesday surrounded by 20 years' worth o...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Just after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized nationwide same-sex marriage, tens of thousands of people gathered in front of S...

TORDESILLAS, Spain (AP) — Men on horseback in a Spanish town chased down a bull and speared it to death Tuesday during the annual Toro de la Vega fest...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he m...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's newest celebrity is a tall, stoic, 60-year-old jurist with thinning hair and a gray beard, who can't walk the street...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man stabbed a woman and then was shot by a security guard at Washington's Union Station on Friday, sending people fleeing outside ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their live...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten automakers have committed to the government and a private safety group that they will include automatic emergency braking in all...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday said that federal police have asked for its permission to question former President Luiz Inacio Lula...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of separatist-minded Catalans swarmed Barcelona on Friday, giving enthusiastic backing to independence a...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One socially conservative Michigan lawmaker was expelled from office and another resigned early Friday after they rocked the Leg...

SINGAPORE (AP) — The party that has ruledSingapore for a half-century has returned to power for five more years after winning a majority a general ele...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Country rockers Steve Earle & The Dukes have released a new song exhorting Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House cast largely symbolic votes on Friday against the Iran nuclear deal and sought to restrict President Barack...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish explorer claimed Friday he has found a massive underground structure in southwestern Poland that, he says, the Nazis bu...

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — The federal government said Friday that public and private conservation efforts have helped the New England cottontail rebound to t...