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• Native American Tribes get millions to aid children

  October 26, 2012 6:48 AM

  FULTON, Mich. (AP) - Three American Indian tribes are getting more than $4.1 million from the federal government to help improve the health and well-being of children. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi says it is getting the grant along with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi and the Gun... more »

• First trial in soldier hazing death set to start

  July 24, 2012 7:27 AM

  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The first of eight court-martial trials is set to start in North Carolina against soldiers accused in racial hazing that led to the suicide of a fellow U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The court-martial for Sgt. Adam Holcomb of Youngstown, Ohio, will begin Tuesday at Fort Bragg.... more »

• Obama says nation needs 'Buffett Rule'

  April 16, 2012 1:27 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the nation can't afford to keep giving tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans "who don't need them and didn't even ask for them." Obama is using his weekly radio and Internet address to urge Americans to ask their member of Congress to support... more »

• American teacher killed in Yemen for alleged proselytizing

  March 19, 2012 12:32 AM

  TAIZ, Yemen (AP) - A group linked to al-Qaeda claims it killed an American teacher in Yemen for Christian proselytizing. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old English language teacher from Harrisburg, Pa., had worked for two years in the central city of Taiz. Yemeni officials say Shrum was killed in his car... more »

• American teacher killed in Yemen for alleged proselytizing

  March 19, 2012 12:32 AM

  TAIZ, Yemen (AP) - A group linked to al-Qaeda claims it killed an American teacher in Yemen for Christian proselytizing. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old English language teacher from Harrisburg, Pa., had worked for two years in the central city of Taiz. Yemeni officials say Shrum was killed in his car... more »

• American Airlines files for Chapter 11 protection

  November 29, 2011 7:38 AM

  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The parent companies of American Airlines and its regional affiliate American Eagle are filing for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection. AMR Corp. and AMR Eagle Holding Corp. said Tuesday that they filed voluntary petitions to reorganize, saying it's in the best interest of the companies... more »

• Iran sentences 2 American men to 8 years in jail

  August 20, 2011 11:05 AM

  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's state TV is reporting that two American men already held for two years in Tehran have been sentenced to 8 years in jail each on charges of espionage and illegal entry. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been held since July 2009 after being... more »

• European E. coli confirmed in Arizona death

  July 8, 2011 3:20 PM

  ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials have confirmed the first American death tied to the food poisoning outbreak in Europe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said lab tests show an Arizona man was infected with the same E. coli bacteria blamed for the outbreak centered in... more »

• Man sentenced in 1968 hijacking

  January 4, 2011 12:23 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. citizen convicted of hijacking a plane from New York to Cuba four decades ago has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Luis Armando Pena Soltren was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. Authorities say he and co-defendants brought pistols and knives... more »

• Mexican official says search for US tourist suspended

  October 15, 2010 8:17 AM

  A Mexican official says the search for an American tourist believed to have been shot while crossing a border lake has been temporarily called off. Tamaulipas state attorney general's office spokesman Ruben Dario Rios Lopez told the McAllen newspaper The Monitor that the search for David Michael Hartley was... more »

• 2 Japanese, American share Nobel Prize for Chemistry

  October 6, 2010 9:21 AM

  American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis. According to Chemistry World, this allows "a way to forge new carbon-carbon bonds with precision and under mild reaction conditions." Richard Heck of... more »

• Balloonists in NM to pay tribute to 2 lost at sea

  October 5, 2010 10:48 AM

  The America's Challenge gas balloon race in New Mexico will pay tribute to two balloonists who disappeared last week in the Adriatic Sea. The deputy director of the race says pilots are being asked to hang two chile ristras, or strings of dried chiles, from their balloons, which are... more »

• Senate moves toward saving US jobs

  September 28, 2010 8:18 AM

  The Senate is headed toward a vote on a bill to punish corporations that send jobs overseas. Senate Democrats are trying to claim the loss of jobs overseas as a campaign issue just before Congress heads home for the November elections. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a... more »

• Congressman Lamborn: Democrats went too far

  September 23, 2010 2:41 PM

  The GOP released a document today which they say they'll use a playbook if Americans return control of the House to them. "This is a pledge and Republicans are making this with one voice," said 5th District Rep. Doug Lamborn. The Pledge to American includes a promise to repeal... more »

• Chinese mountain rescue team visits Colorado

  September 16, 2010 2:21 PM

  Members of a Chinese rescue team that helped recover the bodies of three American climbers last year trained with their counterparts in Colorado this week. The Sichuan Mountaineering Association helped recover the bodies of Micah Dash and Jonny Copp of Boulder and Wade Johnson of Minnesota. Eight members of... more »

• Jump in US homes lost to foreclosure

  September 16, 2010 8:23 AM

  New foreclosure data shows lenders took back more homes in August than in any month since the start of the U.S. mortgage crisis three years ago. Foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc. says 95,364 homes were repossessed by lenders last month. That's an increase of 25 percent from the same... more »

• American hiker released

  September 14, 2010 7:25 PM

  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - American Sarah Shourd says she's grateful to Iran's president and other officials for her release from a Tehran prison, calling it an "humanitarian gesture." Shourd was flown out of captivity into the arms of her mother waiting in Oman today. She was released after arrangements... more »

• Holloway family lawyer dismisses Van der Sloot claims

  September 7, 2010 10:08 AM

  The lawyer for the mother of an Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba has dismissed claims by the Dutchman suspected in the case that he extorted money from the parents to get back at them. Speaking on NBC's Today Show Tuesday, John Kelly, a lawyer for Natalee Holloway's mother... more »

• 5 American soldiers die in Afghanistan

  August 31, 2010 2:32 PM

  Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four days. The U.S. death toll for August stood at 55 - three-quarters of them in the... more »

• Snapshot of economy about to get a lot bleaker

  August 27, 2010 8:12 AM

  A revision of U.S. economic growth is due Friday and it's expected to show a serious stumble. The Commerce Department will revise its estimate for economic growth in the April-to-June period and Wall Street economists forecast it will be cut almost in half, to a 1.4 percent annual rate... more »

• Toyota recalls Corollas, Matrixes

  August 26, 2010 12:56 PM

  Toyota is recalling more than a million Corolla sedans and Matrix hatchbacks with engines that may stall. Toyota said Thursday that the recalls affect vehicles sold in North America from the 2005-2008 model years. Three accidents and one injury have been reported due to the problem. Federal... more »

• US troops in Iraq fall below 50,000 number

  August 24, 2010 8:21 AM

  The American military says the number of US troops in Iraq has fallen below the 50,000 figure that was mandated by President Barack Obama. This is the lowest troop level in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. American forces in Iraq will no longer conduct what are described... more »

• Crushing obesity rates reported in 9 states

  August 4, 2010 11:21 AM

  Americans are more overweight than ever and may die sooner because of it according to the new report from the Centers for Disease Control. From 2007 to 2009 the number of states with more than a third of their population considered obese tripled from three states to nine. ... more »

• BP confirms Hayward departure as CEO

  July 27, 2010 8:08 AM

  BP says Tony Hayward will step down as chief executive officer Oct. 1, to be succeeded by American Robert Dudley. In a statement accompanying its earnings update on Tuesday, BP says the decision was made by "mutual agreement." BP also reports it has taken a pretax charge of $32.2... more »

• Alleged 'Barefoot Bandit' to face charges in US

  July 14, 2010 8:16 AM

  The American teenager who authorities call the "Barefoot Bandit" is now in the U.S. to face charges after being deported from the Bahamas. An initial court appearance for Colton Harris-Moore is scheduled for today in Miami. It's likely he'll eventually be taken to Seattle, where he was indicted. ... more »

• US trade deficit balloons in May

  July 13, 2010 9:07 AM

  The U.S. trade deficit widened in May to the highest level in 18 months as a rebounding economy pushed up demand for imports of foreign-made cars, computers and clothing. The Commerce Department says the trade deficit increased 4.8 percent to $42.3 billion, the largest imbalance since November 2008. ... more »

• Americans' credit scores sink to new lows

  July 12, 2010 9:23 AM

  New figures show millions more Americans have credit scores that could prevent them from getting credit cards, auto loans or mortgages under the tighter lending standards banks now use. Figures provided by FICO Inc. show that 25.5 percent of consumers - nearly 43.4 million people - now have a... more »

• Five Americans convicted in Pakistan

  June 24, 2010 2:37 PM

  SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani court has convicted five young American men on terror charges and sentenced them each to 10 years in prison. The five Muslims from the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., were arrested in December. Prosecutors say e-mail records and witness statements prove they had... more »

• California students sue over flag clothing

  June 23, 2010 6:28 PM

  MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) - Three students at a California high school who were ordered to remove clothing with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo are suing the school district. The civil rights suit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California. The suit claims school... more »

• WWII American remains from Saipan battle identified

  June 16, 2010 9:20 AM

  A researcher in Massachusetts says he has identified the remains of at least seven U.S. service members declared missing in action 66 years ago in the World War II Battle of Saipan. Retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Ted Darcy of Fall River, Massachusetts, says he expects to make about... more »

• Flight attendant helps land passenger jet at O'Hare

  June 15, 2010 6:21 PM

  Officials say a flight attendant who has a pilot's license helped land a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport when a co-pilot became ill. American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan says the co-pilot of a flight from San Francisco to Chicago on Monday became ill. Fagan says the flight's... more »

• Osama bin Laden hunter arrested in Pakistan

  June 15, 2010 3:38 PM

  An American man armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan as he tried to cross the border into Afghanistan on a mission to avenge the 9-11 attacks and kill Osama bin Laden. Police said Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 51-year-old construction worker, was also... more »

• Police: Van der Sloot says he knows Holloway location

  June 11, 2010 8:18 AM

  The chief of Peru's criminal police says Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has told police that he knows the location of the body of missing U.S. teen Natalie Holloway. Gen. Cesar Guardia tells The Associated Press that Van der Sloot "let slip that he knew the place... more »

• Holloway suspect arrested in Peruvian killing

  June 3, 2010 3:16 PM

  Chilean police say they have detained a Dutch man who has long been suspected of killing American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. This time Joran van der Sloot was being sought in the death of a woman in Peru, five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. Police say... more »

• U.S. couple released by Yemeni tribe

  May 25, 2010 12:37 PM

  Two U.S. citizens, a husband and wife, taken hostage by Yemeni tribesmen were released on Tuesday a day after they were seized near the capital Sanaa, a Yemeni government official said. "The Americans have been freed and handed over to the mediation committee," a government official told Reuters. ... more »

• Astronauts make final spacewalk of mission

  May 21, 2010 8:43 AM

  The Atlantis astronauts are making one last spacewalk before leaving the International Space Station. Two of the shuttle crew ventured out Friday morning to finish installing fresh station batteries. It's the third spacewalk this week for the visiting astronauts. Spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Michael Good will plug in... more »

• Census: Americans are on the move

  May 10, 2010 9:32 AM

  Americans are changing addresses again--but they're not going very far. Census figures released Monday show that 12.5 percent of the U.S. population, or 37.1 million people, moved to a new home last year. That's up from a 60-year low of 11.9 percent, or 35.2 million, in 2008. The... more »

• Flight diverted after man claims explosives

  April 27, 2010 6:20 PM

  An American citizen on a flight from Paris to Atlanta claimed to have a fake passport and said he had explosives in his luggage, forcing federal air marshals to intervene and the plane to land in Maine, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Federal officials identified the passenger as Derek Stansberry,... more »

• American woman charged with recruiting jihadists online

  March 9, 2010 5:06 PM

  A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas. Authorities say the case shows how terror groups are looking to recruit Americans to help carry out their goals. A federal indictment charges Colleen R. LaRose with agreeing to kill a... more »

• Woman believed oldest in America dies

  March 8, 2010 5:06 PM

  A New Hampshire woman certified as the oldest person living in the United States has died. Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday at a Westmoreland nursing home at 114 years and 294 days old. Katherine Ray said Monday that her grandmother remained spry until about two weeks before her... more »

• Haiti charges U.S. church members with kidnapping

  February 4, 2010 3:40 PM

  A group of U.S. missionaries in Haiti was charged Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the earthquake-hit country. After announcing the charges, Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph told the 10 Americans their case was being sent to an... more »

• USA Swine flu death count rises

  January 15, 2010 1:24 PM

  A new government estimate says swine flu has sickened about 55 million Americans and killed about 11,160. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the estimates on Friday, which cover roughly the first eight months of the pandemic - from April through mid-December. The CDC last estimated that through... more »

• 10 fastest-growing professions

  January 11, 2010 1:53 PM

  Now that the dismal 2009 job market is behind us, it's time to focus on job opportunities. Among the jobs expected to see the most growth this year and in the years ahead are biomedical engineer and registered nurse, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' projections through 2018.... more »

• Study: Risk of homegrown terror exaggerated

  January 6, 2010 10:34 AM

  A new study of homegrown terrorism in the United States says that the threat of radicalization among American Muslims has been overstated. Researchers identified 139 American Muslims who had been accused of planning or carrying out terror-related violence since the September 11 attacks. The report's authors say that number is... more »

• 9 professions that saw most job losses in 2009

  December 28, 2009 1:35 PM

  It was the worst of times and it was the worst of times for many American workers this past year. With 10 percent unemployment, 2009 draws to a close leaving millions of Americans without jobs. Even those who still have jobs feel beaten down. The recession took its toll... more »