WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a short-term measure Tuesday to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmakers campaign for reelection. L...

A 17-year-old North Carolina girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and then disseminated the attackers’ white-supremacist writings has been charge...

VIENNA (AP) — Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor in Deir el-Zour under the leadership of ousted former President Bashar Assad, according to a U.N. report seen Tuesday by The Associated Press. In...

The Denver Broncos ended the Kansas City Chiefs' nine-year reign atop the AFC West last season, yet Patrick Mahomes sensed his team's stranglehold on the division loosening just a bit way back in mid-...

Cortez native and legendary racer Eli Tomac, 33, has announced his retirement from professional racing, which will become effective after the Monster Energy SuperMotocross World Championship playoffs....

The United States military said Tuesday that it struck new targets in Iran as hostilities flared again after a month without military action. The attacks came after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkia...

DENVER (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles claimed outfielder Luis Robert Jr. off waivers from the New York Mets on Monday. Roberts hit .223 with 10 home runs and 23 RBIs in 58 games for the Mets this season...

CORTEZ Thursday, Sept. 3 Book Club, 4:30 p.m., Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. Free. Club will discuss “The Covenant of Water by,” Abraham Verghese. Friday, Sept. 4 Teen Court Training,...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — A new academic year began across Congo on Tuesday despite concerns by parents and teachers that the country's Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicenter. The res...

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Just off one of New York’s famed Hamptons beaches, shark researcher Greg Metzger reels in one of the day’s prize catches: a young but powerful sand tiger shark. He and another...