WASHINGTON (AP) — Focusing on a key gun issue, the Justice Department will offer states more than $20 million to strengthen the background checks designed to keep guns from being sold to potentially dangerous ... Read more
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration is working with Congress to provide Jordan with an additional $200 million in aid this year. Jordan's economic troubles have been made worse by ... Read more
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor and stressing a message of mercy rather than condemnation has brought a glimmer of hope to American nuns who have been the subject of a ... Read more
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian government says it is offering asylum to 210 members of an Iranian opposition group that currently live at a former U.S. military base near Baghdad. Prime Minister Sali ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made a congratulatory phone call to the new Chinese president and raised thorny issues of North Korea and cybersecurity. The White House says Obama spoke to Xi Jingping ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — E L James' latest project is a journal that also offers a few tips on one of life's most enduring passions: writing. Vintage Books announced Monday that James has collaborated with the publisher ... Read more
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jimi Hendrix recorded everything. More than 40 years after his death, though, the tape is finally running out. "People, Hell & Angels," out Tuesday, will be the last album of ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Magic Johnson is giving LeBron James a million reasons to consider the slam dunk contest. The Hall of Famer says Friday during ESPN's pregame show that he will put up $1 million if James finally ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Royalty Pharma said Monday that it wants to buy Elan Corp. PLC for about $6.5 billion, but has yet to receive a formal response from the Irish drugmaker. The $11-per-share offer, which was made ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Slumping personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co.'s latest quarterly results provided a glimmer of hope after months of gloomy news. The fiscal first-quarter numbers announced Thursday ... Read more