By Christopher Torchia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG _ Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants and painstakingly looked for matches in the vast […]

MASSENA, N.Y. _ Authorities say a cruise ship with French passengers has crashed into a wall in a lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway in upstate […]

By Mitch Weiss, Meg Kinnard And Jacob Jordan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEXINGTON, S.C. _ In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a childhood buddy he […]

By Evens Sanon And Danica Coto THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FONBAYA, Haiti _ Saint-Soi Souverin sat on a bench resting and thinking about his plight after being […]

(AP) Churches have long played a key role in black communities in the United States. Once, in parts of the nation, church buildings were the only […]

By Adam Geller And Seanna Adcox THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. _ When Clementa Pinckney stepped to the well of the South Carolina Senate chamber in […]

By Martin Crutsinger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt? Rosa Parks? Speculation is rising over which American woman will be chosen to grace […]

WASHINGTON  (AP)_ President Barack Obama said Thursday the church shooting that left nine people dead shows the need for a national reckoning on gun violence in […]

By Kim Tong-Hyung THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of _ North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting […]

TBILISI, Georgia _ Police in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia say a tiger that broke loose after severe flooding at a zoo has killed one man […]

By Nicholas K. Geranios THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE, Wash. _ Civil rights leaders in this largely white city that lies between the Cascade and Rocky mountains […]

By Michael Weissenstein THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA _ Six months ago Wednesday, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro stunned the world by announcing an end to […]