PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korea today barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North in the latest sign that Pyongyang’s warlike stance toward South Korea and the United States is moving from words to action. The Kaesong move came a day […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping immigration legislation taking shape in the Senate will aim to overhaul the nation’s agriculture worker program to create a steady supply of labor for farmers and growers, who rely more than any other industry on workers who have come to the country illegally. Farm workers already here would get a speedier […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government says Nelson Mandela “continues to make steady improvement” as he spends a seventh day in a hospital being treated for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia. Admirers around the world have sent prayers and good wishes to the 94-year-old who helped end white minority rule and avoided […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools superintendent Beverly Hall was released from jail after posting bond on charges associated with her alleged involvement in a standardized test cheating scandal. Hall left the Fulton County jail just before 11 p.m. Tuesday after posting bond of $200,000. The 66-year-old didn’t speak to reporters as she arrived at […]

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — The search for a young man and woman who vanished in Orange County’s Cleveland National Forest was to resume today, with the search growing more urgent with every hour since the teens were last heard from on Sunday night. Parents of Nicholas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18, hoped […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia Councilmember Marion Barry is in the hospital after he says he experienced a drop in blood sugar. The longtime councilmember and former mayor tweeted Tuesday night that he was going to the hospital. His chief of staff, Joyce Clements Smith, says Barry went to the hospital after he started […]

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — The race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat has turned into the bigname contest that political junkies were hoping for. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican trying to make a comeback after his political career was derailed by his admission of an extramarital affair, faces Democrat Elizabeth […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In danger of losing congressional momentum, President Barack Obama is drawing attention to Colorado’s newly passed gun control laws as he applies public pressure on Congress to pass similar federal measures. Obama was traveling to the Denver suburbs today, stepping up his call for universal background checks for gun buyers as well […]