Snow and ice that had been moving their way across the country since last week finally arrived in the nation's Mid-Atlantic region, creating power outages and traffic woes up through the Northeast on Monday.

Snowfalls of up to a foot were ...

SEATTLE -- The 16-year-old boy who died Saturday morning aboard a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Atlanta from Seattle had a previous medical condition and went into cardiac arrest, Spokane Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said Sunday ...

The international effort to remove and destroy Syria's chemical weapons is likely to miss its Dec. 31 deadline for getting the most toxic of the poison gases out of the war-torn country, the mission chief said Monday.

"In view of the ...

WASHINGTON -- The American public is unusually pessimistic about the direction of the country and increasingly fed up with Washington gridlock, a sour mood reflected in the worst disapproval ratings for President Barack Obama since he took office ...

WASHINGTON -- While President Barack Obama and Congress keep talking about the plight and economic cost of Americans' declining incomes, a growing number of states and municipalities frustrated by federal inaction are moving to do something about ...

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SAN DIEGO -- A Superior Court judge Monday accepted the major terms of the plea bargain of former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, sentencing him to 90 days of home confinement with no jail time.

Filner pleaded guilty in October to a felony ...