With Hurricane Earl moving up the East Coast and expected to arrive in New England by tonight, FEMA is taking aggressive actions to coordinate with Northeastern states as they prepare for possible severe weather.  Initial reports from our teams in N...

Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose because not enough jobs were created to absorb the growing numbe...

(Sept. 3) -- Miami's airport is back in full operation today after four terminals were ordered evacuated when a luggage screener spotted something suspicious in a passenger's bag. A 70-year-old scientist once acquitted of illegally transporting bubon...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to resume peace talks in two weeks even as a dispute over West Bank settlement building threatens to undercut the effort.

The attack on a Shiite procession in Quetta comes two days after a trio of similar assaults on Shiites in Lahore. A suicide bomb blast targeting a Shiite procession in the southern city of Quetta on Friday killed at least 42 people and injured more t...

The unemployment rate went up slightly to 9.6 percent in August as employers shed 54,000 jobs during the month, the Labor Department said Friday in a jobs report that nonetheless provided a surprise in better-than-expected private-sector and temporar...

AP - Eager to jumpstart the economy ahead of crucial midterm elections, President Barack Obama said Friday he intends to unveil a new package of proposals, including tax cuts and targeted spending, to spark job growth.

President Obama brought two key players together this week to talk about Mideast peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group talks to Steve Inskee...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An aircraft believed to be a cargo plane crashed Friday outside Dubai, an airport official said. There was no immediate word on casualties. Some unconfirmed reports said the plane went down on a stretch of highway, but t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says that a new jobs report showing private sector growth in August is positive but more needs to be done for the economy. He renewed his call Friday for the Senate to pass a bill that would increase lending a...