KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says an airstrike by U.S.-led forces has killed four policemen and two civilians in eastern Afghanistan. The official said today that the airstrike occurred the day before as NATO troops and Taliban militants were fighting about six miles away from an Afghan police checkpoint in the Deh Yak […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Wednesday it was deploying a missile defense shield to Guam to protect the U.S. and its allies in the region in response to increasingly hostile rhetoric from North Korea. The North renewed its threat to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. The threat issued by the General […]

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — Dehydrated and disoriented, one of two teenage hikers missing in Southern California’s Cleveland National Forest has been found, as crews searched for his female companion. Nicholas Cendoya, 19, was discovered by another hiker shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday and airlifted to a hospital. He was talking to paramedics but […]

FORT KNOX, Ky. (AP) — An Army civilian employee was shot and killed in a parking lot at Kentucky’s Fort Knox, and investigators were seeking to question a man in connection with the shooting, authorities said. Army officials said in a news release late Wednesday that the victim was an employee of the U.S. Army […]

LONDON (AP) — A judge has sentenced the father of six British children who died in a house fire to life, with a minimum of 15 years in prison, describing him as the “driving force” behind setting the blaze. Judge Kathryn Thirlwall leveled most of the responsibility for the fire on Mick Philpott, describing him […]

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Iran and six world powers trying to curb Tehran’s nuclear progress are meeting today with the window shrinking on diplomacy. Tehran is moving closer to the ability to make atomic arms, posing a risk of Mideast conflict. Israel says the Islamic Republic is only a few months away from the threshold […]