Mike Ramsey

Republican leaders have ignored pleas from Democrats to negotiate on a plan to avert a shutdown.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have released British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds, who were held for almost eight months without charge.

Kendric Curtis, 18, died at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh hours after being shot by an ATF agent in Aliquippa.

Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA analysis.

U.N. rights chief says Sudan's "forgotten" war is escalating, as another mass killing of civilians is reported by aid workers.