A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the country of Ecuador on April 16, killing an estimated 646 people and injuring more than 12,000. The quake, the worst Ecuador has seen in almost 70 years, devastated...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing...

One evening last November, when Parisians were preparing to go out for the start of the weekend, news of three explosions near the Stade de France circulated not long after the three suicide bombers...

FLINT, Michigan (AP) - The federal government is investing more money this year to help local governments improve their water systems, and about $80 million will go to Michigan next week, President...

  INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) - With days to go before the lead-off Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton on Thursday ramped up her attacks on fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders, who said she is not interested...

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) - Chicago Public Schools plan to announce layoffs of members of its central office staff. District CEO Forrest Claypool said Thursday that the layoffs would be announced Friday...

The Munich Institute of Contemporary History in Bavaria, a federal state of Germany, published an academic reissue of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” with annotations on Friday,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast complexities of a dangerous world were cast in too-simple terms in the latest Republican presidential debate. In addition, Chris Christie pledged to make common...

PARIS (AP) — French investigators tracked down the alleged ringleader of last week's Paris bloodshed after receiving a startling tipoff: The Islamic militant wasn't in Syria but in Europe,...

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines, a Missouri resident, became the subject of  Gaines v. Canada, a U.S. Supreme Court case that required the state of Missouri to either let Gaines attend the University of Missouri,...

World leaders vowed a vigorous response to the Islamic State group's terror spree in Paris as they opened a two-day meeting in Turkey on Sunday, with President Barack Obama calling the violence an...

Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. Armistice Day became Veterans Day in the 1950s and now commemorates the spirit...