TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday in narrow trading, tracking gains overnight on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 index slipped as the yen strengthened against the U.S. dollar. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index edged 0.1 per...

NEW YORK (AP) - After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows. The drop in teen deaths had been a rare bright spot in the opioid epidemic that has seen adult overdose deaths surge year aft...

NEW YORK (AP) - They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of w...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story should have stated that Illinois law does not allow parents the right to refuse vaccines for philosophical or personal reasons. The countdown is on for a back-to-school ritual that perhaps is more...

Several new principals and administrators welcomed more than 40,000 students returning to classes Wednesday at Elgin Area School District U-46 schools. Also new this year: Various curricula and expansion of the district's dual language program thro...

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stock indexes finished Tuesday close to where they started as technology companies and household goods makers rose. But weak reports from sporting goods and auto parts retailers left a lot of smaller companies with steep losses....

GAUHATI, India (AP) - Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed at least 160 people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh. Officials said Monday that they were stil...

MANSHIYEH, Jordan (AP) - Since his family fled civil war in Syria five years ago, 15-year-old Ali al-Sbehi hasn't set foot in a school. Instead, he has put in 12-hour shifts in a supermarket, a fast food stand and now a coffee shop, enduring abuse f...