
Judge denies $20M severance deal for AMR CEO
A federal bankruptcy judge has at least temporarily blocked a proposed $20 million severance payment for the CEO of American Airlines as part of the ...

Russia to continue using Kazakhstan's space center
Brushing off reports that Russia may ditch its space base in Kazakhstan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would continue to ...
Iran negotiator: Sanctions can end 'step by step'
An Iranian negotiator suggests that "step by step" progress can be made toward lifting sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program. Ali Bagheri told ...
Report: Afghan militants could get contract funds
Militant groups in Afghanistan could still obtain U.S. government contracts and siphon off American taxpayer dollars because administrative flaws and ...

Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted in photos
Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped ...
Airlines lagging in on-time performance
Airlines are struggling this year to get planes to the gate on time. The government said Thursday that 80.3 percent of flights by U.S.

Facebook's Zuckerberg launches political group
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting ...
Iran candidate vows 'constructive' diplomacy
Iran's former nuclear negotiator, now a candidate in Iran's presidential election, pledged Thursday to improve rocky relations with the West if he is ...

AP Source: Senate plan to stiffen border security
A bipartisan group of senators finalizing a landmark immigration bill has agreed to require greatly increased surveillance of the border and ...
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise ...
Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly
President Barack Obama is proposing dusting off and finally launching an old environmental satellite championed by Al Gore but shelved a dozen years ...

Stocks rise sharply, led by gains in technology
Stocks are closing sharply higher on Wall Street, led by gains in technology companies. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 128 points, or 0.
Employers eager for new foreign worker program
As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as ...

AP Exclusive: Man tried saving kids buried in dirt
For Jordan Arwood, the images return in waves. A wall of dirt collapsing and burying his 6-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old cousin in a pit he was ...
Dockworkers ratify new 6-year contract
Dockworkers along the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico have ratified a new six-year contract, ending more than a year of negotiations.

Grief, questions after collapse kills 2 NC kids
While parents grieve two children who died when they were buried under a wall of falling dirt, police are investigating possible charges against the ...

NTSB: Pilot's texting contributed to copter crash
Texting by the pilot of a medical helicopter contributed to a crash that killed four people, federal accident investigators declared Tuesday, and they ...

Iran unveils uranium sites, renews defiant tone
With words of defiance, Iran announced two nuclear-related projects Tuesday that expand capabilities to extract and process uranium — modest advances ...
Albania to put trash import plan to referendum
Albania pledged Tuesday to hold a historic referendum on whether to scrap waste imports, a money-making program strongly opposed by environmentalists ...

Investigation after 2 children die in NC collapse
It was common knowledge around a rural North Carolina neighborhood that Jordan Arwood was digging a two-story-deep pit on his property. Some said it ...

Windy spring storm sweeps through Calif., Arizona
Powerful winds raked much of California on Monday, toppling trees, spreading wildfires, causing scattered power outages, whipping up blinding dust ...

Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: It has never demonstrated the ...

Father sobs on 911 after kids buried in collapse
A North Carolina man tearfully begged authorities to hurry to his house to rescue his daughter and her cousin, who were buried when the walls of a ...

Report: Virgin America best US airline in 2012
Virgin America did the best job for its customers among leading U.S. airlines last year, a report said Monday, as carriers overall had their second ...

Stocks edge higher as earnings reports begin
Investors are having a hard time making up their minds. The stock market extended its longest period of indecision in nearly 15 years Monday.