WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said today he will ask all of his department and agency heads for specific proposals for cutting their budgets at his Cabinet meeting...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - It looks like the United States and Cuba are getting unstuck, taking tentative steps in a diplomatic dance that could resolve a half-century of...
DOVER, Ohio - A large hydrochloric acid spill early Saturday at an east-central Ohio plant that makes chemical additives spawned a massive vapor cloud that took hours to...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates attacked a tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, but NATO forces chased them down and freed 20 Yemeni fisherman the pirates were holdin...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - President Barack Obama extended a hand to America's hemispheric neighbors today at a summit where he offered a new beginning for U.S.-Cuba rela...
WASHINGTON - General Electric said this morning its first-quarter earnings fell 36 percent on sharply lower profits at its troubled finance arm, but the results beat Wal...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch prosecutors are dusting off the oldest international felony in their country's books to tackle the 21st-century wave of piracy.
Five Somal...
More than two years after the remains of a newborn were discovered under a bed, the baby girl's mother was sentenced Thursday to 8 to 20 years in prison on a third-degre...
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare. It is the f...
WASHINGTON - A program to expand oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast was canceled Friday by a federal appeals court that ruled the Bush administration did not prop...
