TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted and trained ... Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he will follow through with his plans to return to his homeland despite risks of arrest and other threats. Musharraf, who has ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were little changed on Wall Street Wednesday despite an unexpectedly strong increase in U.S. consumer spending last month. The Dow Jones industrial average overcame an early loss and was ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior U.S. general is urging Congress to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the military's budget, but he cautioned U.S. enemies in the Middle East against trying to take advantage of the ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — An encouraging manufacturing report nudged the stock market higher Friday, giving it a slight gain for the week, even as a deadline for avoiding sweeping government spending cuts loomed. The Dow ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline schedules, food inspections, IRS taxpayer assistance and deployments of Navy ships could all be hampered by the government's automatic spending cuts. But President Barack Obama's health ... Read more
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or holding public-sector jobs is ... Read more
DENVER (AP) — Recent studies by industry groups show snowboarding is no longer growing the way it was for its first 30 years. Sales in 2011-12 fell between 19 percent and 31 percent, depending on the region of ... Read more
Indiana remains at No. 1 in The Associated Press' Top 25 despite losing a game this week, surviving a week of upsets to become the first team in over a month to hold onto the top ranking. The Hoosiers (21-3) lost to ... Read more
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — By all accounts, a 5-year-old in Alabama endured an unforgettable horror: Held for a week in a closet-size bunker underground, a captive of a volatile killer, his only comforts a Hot ... Read more