The Senate approved a slimmed-down, temporary government spending plan early Saturday morning, averting a shutdown of the ...

The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country’s northwest. It’s the militant group’s latest assault on troops in the restive province of Khyber ...

The top uniformed police officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Saturday she accepted the ...

Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid to address extensive damage caused by hurricane and other disasters. The money is in a bill passed early Saturday by Congress after this ...

The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize abortion. The ...

The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to increase Social Security benefits for close to 3 million federal, state and local public sector workers, which includes firemen, policemen and ...

AP Sports Writer The Washington Commanders’ path to returning to nation’s capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution ...

Social obligations. Family discord. Political rifts. Financial stress. And the desire to stay cheery and big-hearted throughout. So here’s a reminder about how to banish your inner perfectionist and t ...

Tiger Woods revealed that his son Charlie, aged 15, has beaten him in a round of golf for the first time – though he was quick to clarify it was over nine, not 18, holes. “Yeah, he beat me for nine ...

Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The diminutive meteor shower is often overshadowed by the Geminid meteor shower that peaks about a ...

Officials say a crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 22 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil. The local fire department, which responded to ...

AP National Writer Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two ...