Ken Stanford

The U.S. stock market is closing out its worst week in two years.

A fire at a house on Lennox Drive in Gainesville early Friday afternoon caused about $10,000 in damage.

Three in four Americans think history will judge the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as failures, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows that about the same percentage think it was right to pull forces from the two countries.

Medicare says premiums for prescription drug plans will rise in 2015 for the second year in a row.

A Ugandan court on Friday invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, pleasing activists and watchdog groups who called the measure draconian and wanted it repealed.

An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than the efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capital.

Israeli forces, backed by heavy tank fire and airstrikes, moved deeper into southern Gaza late Friday in search of a soldier apparently captured in a clash with Hamas militants earlier in the day. At least 62 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed in the fierce fighting that quickly shattered a U.S.-brokered cease-fire.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced new food safety requirements and a new inspection system for poultry products.