WASHINGTON (AP) — Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a daughter named Charlotte, the first grandchild of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky announced the birth of…
Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this year — for school-age children. Those states were among 21 — including some big Democrat-led states, such…
Under pressure from the Justice Department, police officials in and around Ferguson, Mo., have agreed to prohibit their forces from wearing wristbands in support of the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The Justice Department also directed Ferguson…
UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Friday for renewed trust between his country and the United States and said, “It’s not set in stone” that relations between the two countries will always be bad. The people of Iran…
ZAWIA, Libya — In Kurdistan, the schools are full of refugees. In Gaza, many have been reduced to rubble. In Libya and Yemen, teachers and students can’t get to class because of fighting. In the Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic…
WASHINGTON — President Obama hosts one of his more unique summits next week. He welcomes the new leader of India, a man previously denied a U.S. visa for more than a decade, and the guest of honor at a White…
JACKSON, Miss. — A private Mississippi prison that houses many inmates suffering from mental illness is a barbaric place where gangs and others beat, mistreat and exploit convicts, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court here. The American Civil…
A day after warning the United Nations about the Ebola threat, President Obama delivered a similar message Friday to a global health forum: The world must work together to prevent the spread of the deadly disease beyond West Africa. Obama…
Responding to the escalating Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the International Monetary Fund today appoved $130 million in emergency financial help for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The financing will be available…
JACKSONVILLE — The second day of Michael Dunn’s murder retrial began Friday morning at the Duval County Courthouse with testimony from a homeless man who says he heard the gunfire erupt. Shawn Atkins told the court he was living in…
