DURANGO — Archaeological ruins have been unearthed in Colorado in the path of a proposed highway construction project.
NEW YORK — A new environmental foundation backed by Leonardo DiCaprio is pledging $5 million in aid to the Amazon, which has been swept by wildfires.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman ad tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced a longshot challenge S…
BIARRITZ, France — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he had second thoughts about escalating the trade war with China, but the White Hou…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump angrily escalated his trade fight with China on Friday, raising retaliatory tariffs and ordering American …
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the…
CHICAGO — Illinois health officials said Friday that a patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died, which could make i…
WASHINGTON — Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their rich…
JERUSALEM — Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, U.S. officials have confirmed, an attack th…
HONG KONG — Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement lined city streets and part of the city's harbor front Friday, inspired by a huma…
BEIJING — China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned in…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping financial reserves, intensifying fundraising…
WASHINGTON — Colorado U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter reintroduced a bill Tuesday that seeks to further limit gun ownership from potentially dangerous…
The initial headquarters for the Pentagon's new Space Command will be at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, a congressman said Wednesday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal student loan debt owed by tens of thousands of disabled military veterans will be…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again backed tighter background checks for gun purchases, but said he wants to be c…
HELSINKI — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty has raised new threats …
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she is "disappointed and surprised" by U.S. President Donald Trump's decisi…
BEIJING • China said Wednesday that it will levy sanctions against U.S. companies linked to a planned $8 billion sale of advanced F-16V fighte…
DENVER — Health officials say elevated levels of plutonium were found in the soil near a former nuclear weapons plant outside Denver, while a …
NEW YORK — Three women have filed lawsuits accusing Jeffrey Epstein of raping them or subjecting them to other forced sex acts — in one case w…
LAS VEGAS — Fearing they could be overwhelmed with visitors, officials in the remote Nevada county that's home to the Area 51 military base ha…
SAN FRANCISCO • Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet — or at least on Facebook.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is changing its standards for when police can kill under a law signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, as it tries…
NEW YORK — After five years of investigations and protests, New York City's police commissioner on Monday fired an officer involved in the 201…
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — More than two decades before Jeffrey Epstein took his own life, a woman went into a California police station and filed…
WASHINGTON • A strong majority, 74%, of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Tru…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Greenland is not for sale and U.S. President Donald Trump's idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the A…
KABUL, Afghanistan — The suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrate…
DENVER (AP) — From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of…
GENEVA — From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind's exploitation of the planet's fauna and flora is putting some o…
LOS ANGELES — Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the…
TASIILAQ, Greenland — Greenlanders are giving Donald Trump the cold shoulder.
JERUSALEM — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an …
MOSCOW — A Russian pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled plane in a corn field after birds hit both engines said Friday that a quick…
Investors rode out another turbulent day on Wall Street Thursday that kept stock indexes flipping between gains and losses until a late-day bo…
BERLIN — July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say back…
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that it will bar two Democratic congresswomen from entering the country ahead of a planned visit over their s…
PHILADELPHIA — An hourslong standoff where a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home some…
LONDON — Global stock markets fell sharply again Thursday after Wall Street endured its worst day of the year as recession fears in the U.S. a…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At least one gunman opened fire on police Wednesday as they were serving a drug warrant in Philadelphia, wounding six offi…
NEW YORK — Facebook has paid contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its Messenger service, raising privacy concerns for a company…
SUPERIOR, Mont. — An Army veteran pleaded not guilty to assaulting a 13-year-old boy who the suspect said refused to remove his hat during the…
NEW YORK — The warden at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life over the weekend was removed Tuesday and two guards who were…
WASHINGTON — The acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services says the inscription on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants in…
LIMA, Peru — Two Americans used their medal-winning moments at the Pan American Games to draw attention to social issues back home that they f…
NEW YORK (AP) — Guards on Jeffrey Epstein's unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his app…
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has ordered workers to remove video game signs and displays that depict violence from stores nationwide after 22 peopl…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background chec…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown's death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer stands as a seismic moment in American race relatio…
