The Senate GOP leader responds to a joke by President Obama with a gag on Twitter.

Carlos Ruiz set out from Pennsylvania on Saturday night for a 125-mile drive to New York City, where he could finally rejoin the Philadelphia...

Birmingham City Football Club owner Carson Yeung pleads not guilty to money-laundering charges in Hong Kong and moves to have the case thrown out.

The naturalists who interpret the sights seen from the ferries on the Alaska Marine Highway System are being eliminated this year on all but one of the 11 vessels.

Sunday’s tentative agreement on a proposed reworking of DUI laws sends state legislators home with a symbolic show of bipartisanship before they begin the special session, where they’ll have to resolve many more differences.

Young local filmmakers Leo Pfeifer and Chase Crittenden sit down with Nicole Brodeur to talk movies and the NFFTY film festival.

A woman was convicted of drugging her husband before severing his penis and tossing it in the garbage disposal.

Two Shiite cities in southern Iraq hit by car bombs amid a rise in sectarian violence.

The findings from the 2012 presidential vote reflect a polarized election in which blacks strongly supported President Obama while many whites stayed home.

South Korea is preparing to pull out its last remaining nationals from a shuttered factory park in North Korea and empty out the complex for the first time since its 2004 opening.

Thailand's 85-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej is recovering from mild lung inflammation that caused a fever.

BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, agrees to sell its copper mine and a railway in Arizona to Capstone Mining Corp for $650m (£419m).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When it comes to economic growth and business strength, there may be no better U.S. state than Utah, according to a report set to be released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday. The business association found that Utah, population 2.8 million, ranked third among all states in overall economic performance - a measure of how states' economies have fared over time in terms of jobs, gross domestic product, productivity and income. ...

President Obama spoke against efforts to end research support of social sciences.

Upcoming off day a chance for Iwakuma's blister problems to fade away

Some are in New York when their NFL draft call comes. Others sit at home. But not Tyler Wilson, the Raiders' fourth-round pick. As the ex-Razorbacks quarterback...

Upcoming off day a chance for Iwakuma's blister problems to fade away