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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Primaries for governor and U.S. House top the ticket in Alaska Tuesday.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal judge in Seattle is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether to block a settlement the U.S. State Department reached with a company that would allow it to post blueprints for printing 3D weapons on the internet.

President Donald Trump is expressing concern that anything he tells special counsel Robert Mueller under oath could be used to charge him with perjury as part of Mueller's ongoing investigation into coordination...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on his government to unite behind him after he survived an internal leadership challenge Tuesday. But several ministers who backed the failed challenger offered their...

BEIJING (AP) -- Multibillion-dollar China-financed projects in Malaysia have been canceled because they aren't needed and will saddle the country with an unsustainable amount of debt, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told reporters on the final...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency says 95 people were taken to hospitals after suffering breathing problems during a sand-and-dust storm in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.

Racing to shore up their election systems before November, states are using millions of dollars from the federal government to tighten cybersecurity, safeguard their voter registration rolls and improve communication between county and state election...

U.S. health officials on Thursday approved a new generic version of EpiPen, the emergency allergy medication that triggered a public backlash due to its rising price tag.

Hundreds of other American businesses are delivering the same plea to President Donald Trump as he considers imposing tariffs on nearly 40 percent of imported Chinese goods: Don't do it.

Asian shares were mixed Tuesday amid doubts on the prospects for resolving the trade dispute between the U.S. and China.

Retailers and airlines helped lift U.S. stocks broadly higher Monday, extending the market's gains from last week.

New York Mercantile Exchange oil futures nearest to delivery and the front-month Brent contract on the Intercontinental Exchange settled higher Monday.

A number of agriculture interest groups continue to fight the 2015 waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule in several courts.

New York Mercantile Exchange oil futures nearest to delivery and Brent crude on the Intercontinental Exchange edged higher early Monday.

Afghan forces launched a lightning operation in northern Kunduz province on Monday, rescuing 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier, officials said.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan shopkeepers and consumers nervously awaited the launch of dramatic reforms announced by President Nicolas Maduro to rescue a downward-spiraling economy, including a new currency and a more-than-3,000 percent...

NYAL, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan's government claims a shattering five-year civil war is finally over, but skepticism soars. It wasn't helped by the sight of President Salva Kiir refusing to shake the hand of rival Riek Machar after they signed a...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Poor air quality will be common across parts of the Pacific Northwest this week as winds push smoke from surrounding wildfires into the region, forecasters and regulators said.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Jury deliberations are expected to resume in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's 21-member Cabinet was sworn in Monday, a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan pledged to cut government spending, end corruption and repatriate public funds.

SEMBALUN, Indonesia (AP) -- Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least a dozen people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people.

President Donald Trump insists that his White House counsel isn't a "RAT" like the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon, and he is blasting the ongoing Russia investigation as "McCarthyism."

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's defense minister says the military forces in the country's east have been put on high alert in the run-up to massive war games that also involve China and Mongolia.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- There'll be no dizzy dancing in the moonlit streets of Athens.

ALAPPUZHA, India (AP) -- Thousands of people in flood-ravaged south India waded Monday through muck and mud to begin the immense task of cleaning their homes and businesses.