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Young and nestless: Helping with housing

HARTFORD, Conn. — Chicago native Juan Hernandez fell in love with Hartford while attending Trinity College and decided to stay after graduation. But like many… Continue reading

FBI agents investigated over shots fired during standoff

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — FBI agents involved in the traffic stop that led to the killing of one of the armed occupiers of a national… Continue reading

Officer must testify against colleagues in Freddie Gray case

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray must testify against his colleagues while he awaits a retrial, Maryland’s… Continue reading

Hogan vs. Gawker: Testimony gets explicit

Hogan vs. Gawker: Testimony gets explicit

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As testimony in Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media grew extremely explicit Tuesday, an attorney offered evidence that Hogan has publicly… Continue reading

Hogan vs. Gawker: Testimony gets explicit

Activists: Nancy Reagan should have pushed harder on AIDS

NEW YORK — Gay-rights and HIV/AIDS activists remain bitter at Ronald Reagan for a slow response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Views are… Continue reading

Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element… Continue reading

Trump’s path to victory: Working-class whites

DENVER — Should he win the Republican nomination, Donald Trump’s most plausible path to victory in the general election would be a GOP map unlike… Continue reading

EU, Turkey hope to reach migrant deal by March 17

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders said early Tuesday they reached the outlines for a possible deal with Ankara to return thousands of migrants to Turkey… Continue reading

Analysis: Don’t dismiss, or panic over, N. Korea threats

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When North Korea makes threats to nuke its enemies, as it has twice over the last several days, outsiders often… Continue reading

US strikes hit Somalia training camp; drone report previewed

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airstrikes bombarded an al-Shabab training camp in Somalia Saturday, killing more than 150 militant fighters who were preparing to launch a… Continue reading

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014, file photo, healthcare workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone. An Associated Press investigation found that Metabiota Inc., an American company given crucial disease-fighting responsibilities in the Ebola outbreak, was criticized for committing one blunder after another - misdiagnosing patients with the virus, feuding with other responders and offering rosy predictions about the course of the epidemic that proved wrong. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

AP Investigation: American company bungled Ebola response

WASHINGTON — An American company that bills itself as a pioneer in tracking emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 Ebola… Continue reading

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014, file photo, healthcare workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone. An Associated Press investigation found that Metabiota Inc., an American company given crucial disease-fighting responsibilities in the Ebola outbreak, was criticized for committing one blunder after another - misdiagnosing patients with the virus, feuding with other responders and offering rosy predictions about the course of the epidemic that proved wrong. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, carrying an image of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli in a makeshift cat litter pan, AIDS activists and others are asked to leave the lobby during a protest highlighting pharmaceutical drug pricing. The same strategy that Shkreli used to get away with a 5,000-percent price increase on an old drug is used by many other drugmakers to maintain sky-high prices on billions of dollars' worth of medications. Shkreli, who resigned from Turing Pharmaceuticals in December 2015, was arrested and has pleaded not guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy charges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Drug distribution becomes weapon to block competition

WASHINGTON — The same strategy that Martin Shkreli used to get away with a 5,000-percent price increase on an old drug is used by many… Continue reading

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, carrying an image of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli in a makeshift cat litter pan, AIDS activists and others are asked to leave the lobby during a protest highlighting pharmaceutical drug pricing. The same strategy that Shkreli used to get away with a 5,000-percent price increase on an old drug is used by many other drugmakers to maintain sky-high prices on billions of dollars' worth of medications. Shkreli, who resigned from Turing Pharmaceuticals in December 2015, was arrested and has pleaded not guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy charges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Men carry tree branches for firewood at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Friday, March 4, 2016. More than 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border as Greek officials said that nearly 32,000 migrants were stranded in the country after drastically reduce of number of transiting migrants.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In field on edge of Greece, refugees’ desperation grows

IDOMENI, Greece — By the hundreds they come, trudging along the sides of highways and across fields, dragging tired toddlers and pushing the elderly and… Continue reading

Men carry tree branches for firewood at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Friday, March 4, 2016. More than 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border as Greek officials said that nearly 32,000 migrants were stranded in the country after drastically reduce of number of transiting migrants.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Battling outbreak, Hawaii faces obstacles

CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii — On a farm in the heart of Hawaii’s ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb… Continue reading

Turkish-Russian tensions not felt in village near border

AL-ISSAWIYAH, Syria (AP) — In this Syrian mountain village perched above the Mediterranean, residents say they have enjoyed a measure of peace, even though they… Continue reading

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump autographs for supporters during a rally at Wexford County Civic Center, Friday, March 4, 2016, in Cadillac, Mich. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Trump’s GOP rivals attack his ‘flexibility’ on policies

WARREN, Mich. — With an eye on the general election — and suddenly “flexible” on immigration — Donald Trump has backed off from some of… Continue reading

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump autographs for supporters during a rally at Wexford County Civic Center, Friday, March 4, 2016, in Cadillac, Mich. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Think Trump was crude? Founding Fathers were, too

NEW YORK — You could say politics has reached a new low with the “small hands” remarks from the Republican debate.But the exchange over the… Continue reading

Police question Brazil’s ex-president in corruption probe

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police hauled former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from his home and questioned him for about four hours… Continue reading

US seeks end to Yellowstone grizzly protections

BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal government is proposing to lift threatened-species protections for hundreds of Yellowstone-area grizzlies, opening the door to future hunts for the… Continue reading

EU mulls ‘large-scale’ migrant deportation

ATHENS, Greece — Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday,… Continue reading