DENVER — Former astronaut Dale Gardner, who helped haul a stranded satellite into the space shuttle during a 1984 spacewalk, died Wednesday at age 65.
Gardner lived in D...
Rules will limit unhealthy items
WASHINGTON — Even the scoreboards in high school gyms eventually will have to promote good health.
Moving beyond the lunch line, new rule...
V.P. in contact with leader
WASHINGTON — Two days before he fled Ukraine’s capital, President Viktor Yanukovych huddled on the phone for more than an hour with Vice Presi...
GOP quick to criticize plan
WASHINGTON — Looking beyond America’s post-9/11 wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size...
Earlier class being sought
SALT LAKE CITY — A few nights a week in Utah, rooms in courthouses typically reserved for deliberating juries fill up with parents looking to d...
LOS ANGELES — U.S. car owners are carrying higher auto loan balances but still making timely monthly payments.
Auto loan debt per borrower grew 4.4 percent to $16,769 in...
Plan would lower tax rate, impose surcharge on rich
WASHINGTON — An election-year plan by House Republicans to simplify the tax code would cut income tax rates but impose...
Climate case hits High Court
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is squaring off at the Supreme Court with industry groups and Republican-led states over a small but im...
NEWPORT, R.I. — The Naval War College has released online a trove of World War II information in a war diary kept daily by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and his staff as the U....
Environmentalists back several bills
HARTFORD, Conn. — A year after approving a massive expansion of natural gas use in Connecticut, state lawmakers are considering a ban...
