STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s president is endorsing a set of recommendations designed to improve how the university handles sexual misconduct cases on campus. – There will be…
STOCKPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sixth-grader Kayla Hunter considers herself pretty tech savvy. She has a computer at home unlike about half her classmates at her elementary school. And it matches…
The charges against Strauss-Kahn involve sex parties he’s accused of organizing or encouraging in Europe and the United States. Investigators alleged that the parties, in locations such as Belgium, New…
Obama angered Republicans when he announced in November that he would use the executive branch to temporarily delay deportation for as many as 5 million people who came to the…
SAN FRANCISCO — The United States has found a way to permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in computers and networks it has targeted in Iran, Russia, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan…
While much of the attention in the ongoing measles outbreak has focused on student vaccination requirements and exemptions, less attention has been paid to another group in the nation’s classrooms:…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — When the Alpine world ski championships came to the United States this month for the first time since 1999, the 13-day event was quickly defined by…
Call it the first flip-flop of the 2016 presidential campaign. – It’s not clear what changed since that assessment, but the governor’s stock has risen dramatically since he announced he…
Former President Bill Clinton apologized to Mexico during a speech there last week for a backfired U.S. war on drugs that has fueled spiraling violence. “I wish you had no…
WASHINGTON — A lawsuit against the president over his immigration actions has caused awkwardness in some states, where governors and attorneys general are divided on whether they should sue President…
The United States on Friday approved the commercial planting of genetically engineered apples that are resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised. – Okanagan is still engaged in a…
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) announced Friday that he has placed a moratorium on the state’s death penalty. – Death Penalty Moratorium Declaration by Governor Tom Wolf
In a letter Friday to Attorney General Eric Holder, the groups said there is enough circumstantial evidence to “warrant a federal hate crime investigation” into the deaths of Deah Shaddy…
Johnson, on a trade mission to the United States, said that he was struck by the former secretary of state’s insistence that Europe must do more to stand up to…
WASHINGTON — There’s a man who might avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, and he’s not even in Washington. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of Brownsville, Texas,…
The U.S. high school graduation rate reached a new high of 81 percent for the 2012–2013 school year, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Education. Since 2010,…
WASHINGTON — After President Barack Obama announced wide-reaching executive actions on immigration last November, officials from 26 states joined a lawsuit to block them. Another 12, plus the District of…
WASHINGTON — On Monday, Alabama became the 37th state where same-sex couples could legally get married. The person who paved the way for this historic moment was Callie Granade, a…
SAN FRANCISCO — California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday that he is opening a committee to run for governor in 2018, taking his first formal step toward running…
WASHINGTON — A Tennessee state legislator has introduced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, after two other Southern states considered similar moves in recent months. –…
The actions come after the United States, along with Britain, suspended operations at their respective embassies and moved out staffers because of the instability in the Arab nation. According to…
February 11, 2015 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: – February 11, 2015.
HONG KONG — The first state visit by President Xi Jinping of China to the United States will take place in September, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. –…
SANA, Yemen — In the wake of the closing of the United States Embassy in Sana, the capital of Yemen, on Wednesday, other Western embassies quickly followed suit. – Yemen…
The comedy lampoons North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose dynasty she loathes. Her father died in custody of North Korean security forces, who tied him by his wrist in…
The United States is preparing to withdraw nearly all of the military troops deployed to West Africa to help with the response to the Ebola outbreak. – President Barack Obama…
You eat Spam musubi. You call your elders “Auntie” or “Uncle.” You leave your slippers at the door wherever you go. People in Hawaii talk a lot about what it…
The DNC defines a presidential candidate as someone who “has accrued delegates in the nominating process and plans to seek the nomination, has established substantial support for his or her…
The premise of the latest legal attack on Obamacare has always been shaky. An email that a key Senate staffer wrote in January 2010 would appear to make it even…
“We have a profound disagreement with the United States administration and the rest of the P5+1 over the offer that was made to Iran. This offer will enable Iran to…