AP National News

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says three United Nations military observers and a Lebanese interpreter have been wounded when a shell exploded near them while patrolling the southern Lebanese border

Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held after a tense hours-long standoff

Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held, after a tense hours-long standoff

A three-ship convoy has left a port in Cyprus to deliver 400 tons of food and other supplies to Gaza as concerns about hunger there soar

Televised images have swept Peru of government agents from an investigative team breaking into the president’s residence with a sledgehammer

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools

A 15-year volunteer effort is helping identify the fates of thousands of Alaskans who were shipped to a controversial psychiatric hospital in Oregon between 1904 and the 1960s

A dramatic decision by Israel's Supreme Court on drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military could spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon

The collapse of a Baltimore bridge that got struck by a cargo ship has highlighted the important role that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans