WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) — Hunters using lead ammunition are posing real harm to bald eagles. The Wildlife Center of Virginia has admitted its 43rd bald eagle patient of the year, a grim record for single-year admissions during the center’s 35-year history. Officials say nearly 70 percent of the eagles admitted had measurable amounts of lead […]

PANMUNJOM, Korea On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S. secretary of defense, Jim Mattis conveyed the message he hopes will win the day: Diplomacy is the answer to ending the nuclear crisis with the North, not war. He made the point over and over […]

MADRID In an impassioned address, Spain’s prime minister on Friday urged the country’s Senate to grant special constitutional measures that would allow the central government to take control of Catalonia’s autonomous powers to try to halt the region’s independence bid. But in Barcelona, separatist lawmakers filed a proposal for Catalonia’s regional parliament to vote later […]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. Former Navy SEAL James Hatch, whose career as a commando ended when he was shot while searching for Bowe Bergdahl, said his feelings toward the Army sergeant have gone from “I would like to kill him” to thanking the soldier’s lead attorney for working so hard to defend him. Hatch, who testified […]

Clashes between Kenyan police and opposition supporters continued in several areas on Friday, a day after an opposition boycott of the repeat presidential election led to a sharply lower turnout. One man was shot dead, raising the death toll since Thursday’s vote to at least five. Also Friday, church leaders in the opposition stronghold of […]