WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Wednesday she's changed her views and now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.
Murkowski declared as recently as her 2010 re-election campaign that she believes ...
CAIRO -- The decision by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to name 17 new provincial governors, including several who belong to his former party, triggered another round of violence here and the reported resignation of a top minister.
The events ...
LOS ANGELES -- Ninety percent of Americans said schools should take a role in combating obesity -- a surprising cut away from the idea that being overweight is a personal choice.
That doesn't meant people don't see that they need to take action ...
MOSCOW--Russian officials responded coolly Wednesday to President Barack Obama's call for further reductions to the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
"We cannot allow the balance of the strategic deterrence system to be broken, or the ...
LOS ANGELES -- Slim Whitman, a country pop singer whose forlorn wail influenced a generation of vocalists in the early 1950s, has died at age 90.
Whitman, born in Tampa, Fla., was a regular on the influential country radio program "The Louisiana ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Less than a day after the Taliban opened a new political office in Qatar, the prospects for peace talks that it represented for war-weary Afghanistan faltered.
The Afghan government said Wednesday that it wouldn't send ...