Dry, dusty Mars once had an ocean that held as much water as the Arctic Ocean and covered a larger share of the Red Planet’s surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Eart...
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Vice President Walter Mondale is hospitalized with the flu.
Mondale was supposed to introduce former President Jimmy Carter Friday at the annual No...
POLK CITY, Fla. — Animal rights activists were stunned when the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it would eliminate elephants from i...
Few willing to take job
DES MOINES, Iowa — Kent Weise loves his work, but after 38 years slaughtering cattle, lugging carcasses that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds and ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Much of the start of the world's most famous sled dog race is covered in barren gravel, forcing Iditarod organizers to move the start further north w...
Trial starts in Boston
BOSTON — It didn’t take long for prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial to convey the sense of fear, pain and grief caused by the 2013 at...
But police force changes urged
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday cleared a white former Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed b...
This season winds down
WASHINGTON — The miserable flu season is winding down but not quite over yet, health officials said Wednesday, even as the government picked what i...
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department to release the e-mails she wrote from a private e-mail account as secretary of state, weighing in on a con...
No end in sight to party discord
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner’s job is safe despite passing yet another big bill that most of his Republican colleagues oppose,...
