Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.

Washington— The National Park Service announced plans Friday to remove an inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and replace it with a full quotation from the civil rights leader — a move the memorial project's architect said would "de...

Al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki personally directed and approved the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner that a Nigerian man tried to carry out on Christmas 2009, according to new details released by federal prosecutors on Friday.

Reggie Johnson scored 15 points and Miami defeated Virginia Tech to follow up Sunday’s upset of No. 7 Duke with another statement game.

The budget to be released by President Obama Monday is expected to include a one-third cut in NASA's Mars program, in part to pay for other cost overruns within the agency.

Wegelin & Co., the 270-year-old Swiss bank facing criminal charges in a U.S. crackdown on firms suspected of aiding tax evasion, failed to appear at a court hearing as prosecutors called the bank a “fugitive.”

Two-time world champion Mao Asada of Japan won the women’s short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Friday night. The 2010 Olympic silver medalist’s 4-minute routine was clean enough to earn a score of 64.25 points,...

A federal judge has sentenced the father of an admitted terrorist to 4 ½ years in prison for destroying evidence and lying to investigators. Mohammed Wali Zazi was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn for charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justi...

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to win over the Republican values voters, Mitt Romney is invoking Sin City and billing himself as the only candidate “severely conservative” enough to keep such horrors from spreading.

DeMar DeRozan scored 21 points, Jose Calderon had 17 points and 14 rebounds and the host Raptors beat Boston, 86-74, on Friday for their third win in the past 20 meetings with the Celtics.