A Special Report | Part 1: Few girls get high-school educations in Pakistan, where poorly run government schools and Taliban intimidation keep them from attending. But Pakistanis in Seattle have given one community the gift of a school to change that.

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When President Obama named a panel to review NASA’s manned space program, his aides said privately they were hoping the group would recommend…

Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) attempt to overturn a pair…

Family members of a Missouri man imprisoned in Myanmar for swimming to the home of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi waited Saturday for his return to the United States, and said they were thrilled that his ordeal appeared to be over.

South Korea’s president renewed his offer of aid for impoverished North Korea if it abandons its nuclear weapons and called Saturday for talks on the reduction of conventional weapons along their heavily fortified border.

A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday outside the main gate of NATO’s headquarters less than a week before presidential elections, killing seven and wounding 91 in the biggest attack in the Afghan capital in six months.

By making a rare presidential visit to Montana, Barack Obama has put even more pressure on the rural state’s senior senator, Max Baucus, and his panel to produce bipartisan health care legislation in just a month’s time.

Japan’s prime minister expressed deep regret over the suffering his country inflicted on Asian countries during World War II in a solemn ceremony Saturday that marked the 64th anniversary of Tokyo’s surrender.

Strong winds are spreading multiple wildfires across parched parts of California as officials worry the gusts could ignite more blazes and force more evacuations in areas already under a state of emergency.