NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Shelley Berman, who won gold records and appeared on top television shows in the 1950s and 1960s delivering wry monologues about the annoyances of everyday life, has died. He was 92.
DETROIT (AP) — August was a strong month for U.S. auto sales but Hurricane Harvey is putting pressure on some of those gains.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The camera panned through the crowd inside Kauffman Stadium on a warm, late summer night, jumping from kids to parents to grandparents, all of them wearing their blue and white Kansas City Royals gear.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A military official in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region says two bomb blasts have killed at least three soldiers in a remote village.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation that ended last year without charges remains a lingering grievance for President Donald Trump, who for months has held it up as an example of a "rigged" criminal justice system that…
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Islamic hajj pilgrimage draws people from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. The crowds, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in prayer five times a day, fill the city of Mecca and surrounding areas…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Harvey spread its misery into the Deep South as flooded creeks drove people from their homes in Tennessee and an apparent tornado damaged homes and toppled trees in a rural area of northwest Alabama.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros acquired Justin Verlander in a trade with the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night, just before the deadline for having players eligible for postseason play.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Security forces in Colombia have killed one of its most-wanted drug fugitives, the alleged No. 2 leader of a ruthless criminal network that arose from disbanded right-wing paramilitary groups to become the nation's largest drug-trafficking organization.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president calls Supreme Court 'crooks' after election is nullified, new vote called.
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Eric Filia homered and had three hits, and Nathan Bannister allowed just three hits over five innings as the Modesto Nuts beat the Lake Elsinore Storm 3-0 on Thursday.
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — An Aurora man who shot at officers after a domestic disturbance turned into a standoff has been sent to prison.
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge has angrily rejected a request for more than $900,000 in legal fees in a Pennsylvania insurance case that saw the attorneys' client receive $125,000.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A rescue operation in the eastern Aegean Sea has turned into a big marijuana bust.
BERLIN (AP) — Two more Germans have been arrested in Turkey for what Berlin considers political reasons, Germany's Foreign Ministry said Friday, deepening tensions between the two countries.
It was the fifth straight weekly decline for the benchmark 30-year rate, which again reached a new low for the year.
BOSTON (AP) — A Boston-area mosque says its celebration of one of Islam's holiest days has been canceled after the host venue received complaints that women and children were being excluded.
Port Arthur's major roads were swamped by rising waters brought by Harvey, and there were few images showing the devastation that virtually cut off the East Texas city.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, attended a fundraiser for a House Republican who heads the conservative Freedom Caucus.
LITTLETON, Iowa (AP) — Residents of a small eastern Iowa community remain skeptical about plans to remove a low-head dam, saying there's no need to change a structure that's been in place for nearly a century.
YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials have charged a brother and sister with offering a California sheriff $1 million to turn a blind eye to their marijuana growing operations.
Rescuers have not only saved stranded residents, but have been plucking pets from the floodwaters in the aftermath of Harvey.
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Glenn Beck says he has laid off 20 percent of the staff at his conservative media outlet, The Blaze, and its parent company, Mercury Radio Arts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, though still enough to suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession.
A 56-year-old Rochester, Minn., motorcyclist died Thursday after colliding with a dump truck in Houston County, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.