Category: North America

Tweeting caught up with a White House national security official found to have been posting insults and secret information about the Obama administration and other political figures for more than...

RENO, Nev. -- Sparks Middle School math teacher Michael Landsberry became known as a hero when he tried to stop a student with a gun, but his commander and colleagues...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian state news agency says a car bomb has exploded on the edge of the central city of Hama, causing casualties.   SANA said the explosion...

A 17-year-old Iraqi boy had to identify the bodies of his parents and four sisters killed in an Ohio car accident involving a police officer responding to a call about...

PHOENIX -- Immigration reform, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's second-term domestic agenda, lost momentum amid the partisan brinkmanship that led to the government shutdown. Some reform opponents believe the...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida (AP) — Two convicted killers who were freed from prison by phony documents were captured together without incident Saturday night at a Florida motel, authorities said....

(Scroll down for video) Two elderly women were arrested and charged with assault after beating up a woman who asked for a little privacy at the checkout counter, according to...

So few insurers offer plans on some of the new government health insurance exchanges that consumers in those states may pay too much or face large rate increases later, insurance...

ATLANTA (AP) — The first U.S. state to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled death row inmates is revisiting a requirement for defendants to prove the disability...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President...