WASHINGTON — The total amount America spends on health care will rise modestly over the next decade, continuing a trend that began during the recession, according to new...
WASHINGTON — The arrest of Jonathan Pollard for spying for Israel touched off one of the most sensational spy cases in recent American history, stoking fierce internatio...
SEATTLE — True-crime writer Ann Rule signed a contract to write a book about an unknown Seattle serial killer six months before he was identified as her co-worker Ted Bu...
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A New York prison worker accused of smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two week...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, she no longer saw the loving ...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — President Barack Obama highlighted his administration’s efforts to combat hunger worldwide on today as he prepared to end a historic return to th...
Church-sponsored units get exclusion
NEW YORK — The Boy Scouts of America has ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders but will allow church-sponsored Scout units to ma...
Technology expanding
RENO, Nev. — For decades, forest rangers in wooden towers across the West scanned the horizon with binoculars for smoke that could signal the start o...
WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of a powerful House committee called for the removal of the IRS commissioner Monday, saying he has obstructed congressional probes i...
Free download will be available
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuts Wednesday, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out...
