A woman who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building says she is finished with working in Bangladesh's garment industry.
Reshma Begum spoke to reporters Monday from the hospital where she is being treated in a Dhaka suburb. She said she never expected to be rescued alive.
Rescue workers were stunned when they discovered the 19-year-old seamstress Friday in the wreckage of the garment factory building. They said she survived...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures slipped Monday to begin a week loaded with hints about the health of the country's retailers.
Americans boosted spending at retail stores in April, according to the Commerce Department, surprising some economists. Earlier declines on major markets were cut in half after the report.
Dow Jones industrial futures fell 18 points to 15,050. S&P futures lost 2 points to 1,627.50. Nasdaq futures fell 4 points to 2,971.50....
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — A man charged with killing three adults and a toddler on an eastern Kansas farm made a brief appearance in a packed courtroom Monday, but showed little emotion while a judge set a new court date.
Kyle Flack, 27, has been held on $10 million bond in the Franklin County jail since he was charged Friday with capital murder in the deaths of 18-month-old Lana Leigh Bailey; her mother, Kaylie Bailey, 21; and Andrew Stout, 30. Flack is also charged with...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The two brothers of the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade say they have no sympathy for him. One called him a "monster" who he hopes "rots in jail."
Onil and Pedro Castro told CNN that they want Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight to know how sorry they are for their ordeal.
"I'm just grateful they are home and out of that horrible house, and I'd just tell them I'm sorry for what Ariel...
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Fire tore through a family's home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house.
The blaze broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at the single-family home in Pottsville, in eastern Pennsylvania. Firefighters later found all of the bodies on the third floor of the building, which sits on a steep hillside not far from the D.G....
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. REPUBLICANS WANT TO DEPOSE OFFICIALS ON BENGHAZI
Rep. Darrell Issa says he will seek testimony from the officials who cleared Hillary Rodham Clinton of blame in the September attack that killed a U.S. ambassador.
2. WHAT THE COST OF OBAMACARE DEPENDS ON
The AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports that where...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
It's believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's personalized rendition of "Space Oddity" was posted on YouTube on Sunday, one day before his departure from the orbiting...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and more energy efficiency.
On a broader scale, the new engines displayed Monday could well be viewed as emblematic of the improving financial health of Amtrak, which has long been dependent on subsidies from an often reluctant Congress....
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak is preparing to roll out the first of 70 new locomotives it says will offer better safety, reliability and performance than its current aging fleet.
Three are being unveiled Monday at a plant in Sacramento, Calif. The first are expected to be put into service by this fall. All 70 should be on the tracks by 2016.
They replace locomotives that are as old as 30 years. The new ones are built by Munich-based Siemens AG and...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Video released early Monday by New Orleans police shows a possible suspect in the Mother's Day gunfire that wounded 19 people during a neighborhood parade.
The grainy surveillance video shows a crowd suddenly scattering in all directions, with some falling to the ground. They appear to be running from a man who turns and runs out of the picture. The person is wearing a white T-shirt and dark pants. The image isn't clear, but police say they hope...
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