Updated: 8:32 AM The World Health Organization's chief said Sunday that it wasn't surprising that a new strain of bird flu that has sickened dozens in eastern China has spread to the capital.
Posted: 8:30 AM The United States says it's committed to defending Japan and opposes any coercive action by China to seize territory under Japanese control in the East China Sea.
Posted: 8:16 AM Worried the Internal Revenue Service might target you for an audit?
Updated: 4:30 PM The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Louisiana-based meat packing company has expanded a recall of meat products because of possible bacterial contamination. No illnesses have been reported
Updated: 4:30 PM The mother and older sister of a coastal Georgia teenager charged with killing a baby last month are pleading not guilty to charges that they tried to dispose of a gun police believe was used in the slaying.
Updated: 4:31 PM The U.S. military says guards have clashed with prisoners amid a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, leading officers to move detainees from communal to single cells at Camp 6.
Posted: 2:12 PM Hundreds of opponents of late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have gathered in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death.
Posted: 12:24 PM A western New York family is suing an upstate county after the coroner there took a piece of their son's body for use in a dog-training exercise.
Posted: 11:56 AM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. and China are pledging to work closely on the volatile situation in North Korea.
Posted: 11:48 AM A small NASA facility on one of Virginia's barrier islands is preparing to be thrust into the spotlight.
Updated: 4:29 PM President Barack Obama's budget overtures to Republicans may limit his bargaining power if the GOP ever returns to the negotiating table on a grand deficit-reduction deal.
Updated: 11:06 AM Tiger Woods got a reprieve Saturday in the Masters when he was given a two-shot penalty for a bad drop but allowed to stay in the tournament.
Updated: 12:27 PM The liberal super PAC from Kentucky that incurred the wrath of the Senate Republican leader is an organization of outsiders that has barely raised any funds since it was founded in December to oust U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell from office in 2014.
Posted: 8:40 AM If a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police.
Posted: 6:32 AM The mother of a Newtown, Conn., shooting victim is making a deeply personal plea from the White House for all Americans to take action on gun violence.
Posted: 6:30 AM Pope Francis has named nine cardinals to advise him on running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy.
Updated: 6:29 AM The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's unpredictable regime is front and center as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Chinese leaders today.
Posted: 6:25 AM Russia is banning 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations.
Posted: 6:22 AM Several states are bracing for a second storm today on the heels of a powerful spring storm that unleashed tornadoes and heaped snow and ice on the Midwest. The first storm killed three people.
Posted: 6:20 AM Federal mortgage payment relief has been extended up to one year for more than 200,000 homeowners whose houses were damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 6:19 AM President Barack Obama's recently released budget proposes raising Medicare premiums for individual retirees making more than $85,000 and couples making more than $170,000.
Posted: 6:17 AM A 33-year-old West Hollywood man who felt sickened by bacterial meningitis earlier this week has been declared brain dead amid warnings to sexually active men about the deadly strain of illness.
Posted: 6:15 AM Two cruise ships have rescued migrant rafters off the Florida Keys.
Posted: 6:14 AM A suburban Atlanta police officer has been hospitalized after being shot during a traffic stop and the suspect was fatally shot by police after a pursuit through north Fulton County.
Posted: 6:09 AM Beijing has reported its first confirmed case of the latest strain of bird flu virus, which has killed 11 and sickened 32 in eastern China.
