Ken Stanford

Conjoined twins boys delivered at an Atlanta hospital have died less than two days after they were born, the newborns' parents said.

After a stinging audit and a staffing overhaul, the state ethics commission looks to a new year that could bring even more significant changes.

A protest in which participants played dead to demonstrate against recent killings by police drew more than 200 people in Atlanta.

The United States will keep about 1,000 more troops in Afghanistan than planned early next year to fill a temporary NATO troop gap in the new mission to train and advise Afghan security forces, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday on his final visit to this war-weary country as Pentagon chief.

Typhoon Hagupit slammed into the central Philippines' east coast late Saturday, knocking out power and toppling trees in a region where 650,000 people have fled to safety, still haunted by the massive death and destruction wrought by a monster storm last year.

At least 400 people are killed by police officers in the United States every year, and while the circumstances of each case are different, one thing remains constant: In only a handful of instances do grand juries issue an indictment, concluding that the officer should face criminal charges.

It used to be that Democrats would mutter under their breath about President Barack Obama and the White House. Now, with the midterm elections behind them, some leading members of the president's own party are airing their frustrations with little restraint and charting their own course.