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DENVER (AP) --The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission held former Gov. John Hickenlooper in contempt Thursday for defying orders to appear at a hearing on a Republican complaint that private plane trips he took while governor violated the state's...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) --Tennessee must give all of its 4.1 million registered voters the option to cast ballots by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, a judge ruled Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) --California cities and counties cautiously lifted curfews after days of sporadic mayhem were replaced by peaceful protests and pledges by lawmakers to fight inequality.

WASHINGTON (AP) --A U.S. Navy veteran whose family said his only crime was falling in love left Iran on Thursday after nearly two years of detention, winning his freedom as part of a deal that spared an American-Iranian physician from any additional...

BANGKOK (AP) --Factories and stores are reopening, economies are reawakening --but many jobs just aren’t coming back.

America's workers likely suffered another devastating blow in May, with millions more jobs lost to the viral pandemic and an unemployment rate near or even above 20% for the first time since the Great Depression.

Google said state-backed hackers have targeted the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, although it saw no evidence that the phishing attempts were successful.

ROME (AP) --A quarter of Venice has been submerged by a near-record high tide for June, a time of year when such flooding is rare.

Four U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation that could help set criteria and certification programs that would make it easier for farmers and forestry owners to earn income from carbon credits.

Shares surged Friday in early European trading and Wall Street futures were higher after a broad advance in Asia as investors await U.S. jobs data for May.

West Texas Intermediate futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Brent crude on the Intercontinental Exchange traded on either side of unchanged for most of Thursday's session.

Wall Street paused on Thursday, and the S&P 500 fell for the first time in five days as stocks that had held steadiest through this year's feverish swings gave back some of their gains.

USDA's Farm Service Agency administrator took questions about the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program in a call Wednesday with South Dakota growers. Iowa officials also want liquid eggs recognized for aid and wheat growers say all classes of wheat...

Stocks are mixed in early trading on Wall Street Thursday as the market takes a pause following its longest winning streak in nearly four months.

Oil futures and Brent crude turned lower Thursday morning, with Saudi Arabia and Russia calling off a policy meeting scheduled for Thursday when producers were expected to agree to an extension of their accord cutting 9.7 million bpd in output beyond...

(AP) -- The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are urging that governments and others unite in developing a “people’s vaccine” to protect everyone against the coronavirus.

WASHINGTON (AP) --Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Wednesday told members of three congressional committees that before he was abruptly fired, he was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s use of government...

Congressional Democrats, powered by the Congressional Black Caucus, are preparing a sweeping package of police reforms as pressure builds on the federal government to respond to the death of George Floyd and others in law enforcement interactions.

WASHINGTON (AP) --Joe Biden is pledging to unveil a series of proposals in coming weeks aimed at reversing the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and addressing inequalities that have contributed to protests sweeping the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) --Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.

LAS VEGAS (AP) --Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence...

MEXICO CITY (AP) --Tropical Storm Cristobal is creeping along just inland over Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Campeche, threatening to cause flooding the next few days before a predicted turn northward toward the U.S.

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the U.S...

BEIRUT (AP) --On a summer day last year, presidential guards drove out of the charity organization founded by Syria’s wealthiest businessman and a close cousin of President Bashar Assad, carting away boxes of documents and computers.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) --The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to move ahead toward ending the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s vast western Darfur region and replacing it with a civilian mission focusing on the...