Ken Stanford

Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged from a nearly four-hour meeting Saturday, offering no indication that the U.S. and Turkey had bridged their differences about how to deal with Islamic State fighters or Syrian President Bashar Assad.

A strong earthquake late Saturday struck a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics, knocking down at least 10 homes in a ski resort town and injuring more than 20 people, officials said.

President Barack Obama's expansive executive action on immigration is good for the U.S. economy - just not as good as partnering with Congress on broader reforms.

First-time claims for unemployment insurance (UI) in Georgia were down 18 percent in October, compared to a year ago.

Lanier Tehnical College instructors have nominated 16 of their students for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) competition, according to Kari Register, coordinator for the college

President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, broadening previous plans that had limited the military to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after this year, U.S. officials said late Friday.

The CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican-controlled House committee has found. Its report asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials.

Stocks pushed further into record territory Friday as investors welcomed a move by China to stimulate its economy by lowering interest rates.

Secretary of State John Kerry canceled plans Friday to pull back from talks with Iran about the country's nuclear program - a shift that suggested some hope of movement on the protracted negotiations.