NEW YORK (AP) -- A prestigious award from the Brooklyn Museum honors women who have made outstanding contributions in their fields. This year's surprise honoree is ... Miss Piggy. The... READ MORE »

BALTIMORE (AP) -- National Guard troops fanned out through the city, shield-bearing police officers blocked the streets and firefighters doused still-simmering blazes early Tuesday as a... READ MORE »

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bumble Bee Foods and two employees were charged Monday by Los Angeles prosecutors with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tuesday is a potential watershed moment for America's gay and lesbian couples. After rapid changes that have made same-sex marriage legal in all but 14 states, the... READ MORE »

SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm drain. Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District #1 says... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation says the global philanthropy is working quickly to remedy mistakes it made in how it disclosed donors, saying that... READ MORE »

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Social media is a chronicle of life, and sometimes death. So it should be no surprise that a site of great human and cultural loss in Nepal's devastating earthquake... READ MORE »

MOSCOW (AP) -- A court in southern Russia has sentenced three young women to brief jail terms for making a video showing them twerking next to a World War II memorial. Russia celebrates the... READ MORE »

SWANSEA, Ill. (AP) -- A 58-year-old animal rescue volunteer struck and killed by a St. Louis MetroLink train in southwestern Illinois was responding to a call about an opossum on the tracks... READ MORE »

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Hundreds of New Mexico state employees have been accused of not voting in November's election despite taking advantage of paid leave to do so, Gov. Susana Martinez's... READ MORE »