Category: North America

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen has emerged as the favorite to win the chairman's job after former Treasury secretary Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration Sunday.   If...

  President Obama will deliver a speech Monday on the fifth anniversary of the event that helped elect him back in 2008: The financial crisis.   Obama "will be joined...

It was a low point in a painful year that also included the assassination of President John Kennedy and the murder of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.   Now, 50...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Six Flags reopened the Texas Giant roller coaster Saturday for the first time since a rider died at the North Texas amusement park, with new precautions...

The U.S. and Russia announced an agreement Saturday aimed at setting a timetable for destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and averting a proposed U.S. military strike against the war-torn Middle...

XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Ingrid became the second hurricane of the Atlantic storm season off Mexico on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of several thousand people while Tropical Storm Manuel threatened...

BOULDER, Colo. — Rescue operations and evacuations continued at a frantic pace Saturday as residents of this flood-hammered state dealt with more swamped roads, inundated homes and the dark forecast...

A South Carolina dog is being hailed a hero after owners say he alerted them that a babysitter was abusing their 7-month-old son.   The babysitter, Alexis Khan, 22, pleaded...

At least 34 people were injured after a Greyhound bus overturned on an interstate in southwestern Ohio.   Officials with the Butler County Emergency Operations Center said in a statement...

WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey teenager called his actions "a big mistake" as he was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in state prison for fatally strangling a 12-year-old...