NEW YORK (AP) — Declaring that the Mafia is not just the stuff of movie scripts, federal prosecutors have charged nearly four dozen people with being part of an East Coast crime syndicate,... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most young Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties don't represent them, a critical data point after a year of ferocious presidential primaries that forced... READ MORE »

EDITOR'S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures.   WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of... READ MORE »

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republicans' frustration with Donald Trump has reached new heights, with party leaders scrambling to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive... READ MORE »

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — For years, authorities had concerns about Metro Transit Police Officer Nicholas Young: He traveled to Libya and boasted of joining rebel groups there, and he even... READ MORE »

 WINDHAM, Maine (AP) — A Maine police officer's intervention in a possible "mad cow" situation is getting guffaws.Officer Ernest MacVane of the Windham Police... READ MORE »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apparently unaware she could face a death sentence, a British porn actress says she flew to Iran to undergo a nose job and later wrote online about it,... READ MORE »

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo... READ MORE »

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that he fears the general election "is going to be rigged" — an unprecedented assertion by a modern... READ MORE »

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A suspect in an assault tried to avoid police by climbing a Colorado tree and staying there for hours. The 30-year-old man camped out in the Colorado Springs... READ MORE »