BY BRANDON BAILEY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI has confirmed it is investigating a recent hacking attack at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which caused major …

By TOM ODULA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim quarry workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting Kenya’s president to announce a security …

By ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is defending President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration even as GOP lawmakers work to …

LORMAN, Miss. (AP) — Alcorn State University will be the third four-year college in Mississippi to waive out-of-state tuition for all nonresident students. Delta State University …

NEW YORK (AP) — Turkey, stuffing and a helium-filled Thomas the Tank Engine were on the menu as friends and families gathered across the United States …

By PATRICK WHITTLE BUCKSPORT, Maine (AP) — The road to the middle class in Maine might not be paved with paper any longer. The accelerating decline …

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — A parliament committee in Nigeria says that Shell should pay $3.6 billion in fines as punishment for a 2011 oil spill. The …

By KEN THOMAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she supports President Barack Obama’s executive actions to protect about 5 million immigrants …

By MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON Associated Press Luke Maguire Armstrong doesn’t pen a holiday letter to friends. The guitar player and songwriter prefers to communicate musically. …

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) —Prosecutors have filed another charge against a substitute teacher accused of sexually assaulting a student in a northern New Jersey school district …