4 hours ago - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press
The State Department says deep cuts to its budget proposed by Congress will damage America's security and global leadership as well as prove costly to taxpayers in the long run.

5 hours ago - By msnbc.com
5 hours ago - By Associated Press
French President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWND') says he stands by his campaign pledge to withdraw his country's troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
6 hours ago - By The Associated Press
A Maryland teenager has won $75,000 for coming up with a screening method for early-stage pancreatic cancer.
8 hours ago - By Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer
The unemployment rate fell in two-thirds of U.S. states last month, evidence that modest economic growth is boosting hiring in most areas of the country.
7 hours ago - By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press
The United States says Sri Lanka has presented a "serious and comprehensive" plan for reconciliation in the island nation after its quarter-century civil war.
7 hours ago - By Pete Yost, Associated Press
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law.
9 hours ago - By Joan Lowy, Associated Press
The Federal Aviation Administration will revisit a decision to exempt cargo airlines from new rules to prevent pilot fatigue, saying it made "errors" in cost calculations used to justify the exemption.

15 hours ago - By Ben Feller, Associated Press
In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job.
11 hours ago - By Robert Burns, AP National Security Writer
China may have started work on it first domestically built aircraft carrier and is likely to produce a number of carriers over the next decade as part of an aggressive effort to modernize its military, the Pentagon said Friday.

12 hours ago - By Julie Pace, Associated Press
President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.

15 hours ago - By Nancy Benac, Associated Press
The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate be far behind?
23 hours ago - By Associated Press
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are expressing sadness over the death of Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco who succumbed to cancer at the age of 63.

May 17 - By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief.
May 17 - By Alan Fram, Associated Press
Republican lawmakers intensified their efforts on Thursday to get quick congressional action on heading off automatic tax increases and revamping the federal tax code.

May 17 - By Ken Thomas , Associated Press
President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president's money advantage is beginning to dwindle.
May 17 - By Associated Press
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is willing to testify at a congressional hearing this spring on the bank's $2 billion trading loss.