DALLAS — As Texas residents prepared for what one hardware store manager called “Ice Friday,” schools started canceling classes and thousands of shoppers jammed store ai...
LONDON — Prince William and others attending the London premiere of a new film about Nelson Mandela were told of his death Thursday night as the closing credits rolled.
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Disruptions seem minimal
NEW YORK — Fast-food workers and labor organizers marched, waved signs and chanted in cities across the country on Thursday in a push for higher ...
Triplets-and-more increasingly are the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs — not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilization, ne...
WASHINGTON — The Capitol Christmas Tree has arrived in Washington, D.C.
The tree is in place on the U.S. Capitol’s west lawn Monday, and organizers say it is decorated w...
White House corrects previous statements
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama briefly lived with an uncle who faced deportation from the...
JOHANNESBURG — Flags were lowered to half-staff across South Africa and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in the country’s vast rural grassl...
N.D. oil workers try to stay warm
BISMARCK, N.D. — Some people were choosing to stay indoors as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains, but the prospect of temp...
Sandy Hook recordings released
NEWTOWN, Conn. —- With terror in her voice, Barbara Halstead begged with police dispatchers for help, ending her 24-second 911 call with th...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct economic ine...
