MILWAUKEE (AP) — Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played. This year’s college freshmen don’t. They never lived in a world where […]

MANTON, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of buildings, many of them likely homes, have been destroyed in recent days at a fire burning outside the Northern California community of Manton, fire officials said. Fire crews assessing the rural area determined Tuesday that 50 buildings had been destroyed, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said. The count included […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece needs more time to implement tough financial reforms and spending cuts, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says as he starts the first of a series of top-level European meetings to discuss his debt-ridden country’s international bailout. Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup, the body representing the finance ministers of the 17 […]

MOSCOW (AP) — At least four people have been killed overnight in flash floods in Russia’s Black Sea region, officials said today. The Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement that the people died late Tuesday night in the village of Novomikhailovsky. About 1,500 people have been evacuated from the area, and 600 houses were […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — In a high stakes election that could help determine the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, attention in Nevada is turning this week to one option on the ballot with no shot of winning: None of these candidates. A lawsuit filed in federal court in June and financed by the […]

GENEVA (AP) — A key parliament committee has criticized but decided not to oppose the government’s decision to buy Swedish fighter jets. A national security policy committee said in a highly anticipated report that the proposed order of 22 Gripen fighters carries “the most risks” in several aspects, including the likelihood of the costs being […]