WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on the brink of success in her yearslong campaign to get sexual assault cases removed from the military chain of command. But getting over the finish line may depend on whether she can overcome wariness about...

Daredevil Alex Harvill died Thursday while practicing for a world record motorcycle ramp jump, officials in Washington state said. He was 28 years old.

The Affordable Care Act is now a durable part of the American social safety net. Its successes and flaws have never been more apparent.

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear in northern Japan on Friday after it rampaged through a city, injuring four people including a soldier and lumbering across busy roads. "A total of four people, including one Self-Defense Forces member, have been attacked...

The trillion-dollar infrastructure package backed by a bipartisan group of 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats surely has plenty of waste in it. But what’s in the package is not nearly as interesting as what is left out of the package — which points in...