government appointments and nominations

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's latest push to make sure consumers get equal access to the Internet faced a key legal test Friday as a federal appe...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Sunday departed for Washington on a trip that has become clouded in controversy following his appointment ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders sharpened the contrast with Hillary Rodham Clinton on a bevy of liberal causes on Saturday, casting himself as ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All tim...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is starting a new term that promises a steady stream of divisive social issues, and also brighter prospects for co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday that he will nominate longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary. If ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will ret...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered two women to stay away from Salma Hayek and not attempt to contact the Oscar-nominated actress for the ne...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. District Judge Michael Davis had seen this in his courtroom before — a young Somali-American who hadn't previously been a trou...

LONDON (AP) — Britain has been stunned by revelations about child sexual abuse, a judge said Thursday, warning that the true scale of the crime has be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama on Thursday told hundreds of Native American youths that they are all precious and sacred and that "each of you was p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department cannot find in its records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server t...

Following a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of officials across the country is calling for the removal of C...

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A man accused of killing and dismembering a stripper after police say he and his girlfriend lured her from a club in the New Orlean...