WASHINGTON — No progress was made last year in reducing motorcyclist deaths, even though overall motor vehicle fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. One reason, the group said, may be that high gas prices are driving more people to ride motorcycles. ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is using weekend gatherings of world leaders — dominated by discussion of European economic woes and Afghanistan — to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and to encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria. Obama will have the ...

JACKSON, Mich. — A Michigan teen finishing off an Arby’s roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out. Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy, severed pad of an unfortunate employee’s finger, apparently. Ryan Hart, 14, told the Jackson Citizen ...

WASHINGTON — Leslie Sabo’s Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later — and a dozen years after the long-lost paperwork turned up in military archives — he was honored by President Obama on ...

NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street after the bank lost $2 billion in a trading blunder, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday. The bank will accept the resignation of Ina Drew, its chief investment ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Western military said Monday it was investigating reports by Afghan officials that an errant airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed a mother and five children. Meanwhile, three NATO troops died in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said. Word of the civilian fatalities in Helmand ...

NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little ...

ATLANTA — The now-defunct website George Zimmerman set up to solicit donations from supporters raised more than $200,000, his lawyer said in a Florida courtroom Friday — one week after Zimmerman’s family argued that it had meager assets with which to pay his bond. The new development could prompt Seminole ...

WASHINGTON — A measure that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act was approved by the Senate on Thursday with broad bipartisan support, despite some Republican objections to key provisions. After the 68-31 Senate vote, the battle over those differences will now move to the House, where Republicans are pushing ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is investigating 10 U.S. military members in a widening probe into whether an advance team of Secret Service and military personnel hired local prostitutes or engaged in other misconduct before President Barack Obama visited Colombia for a summit last week, U.S. officials said. The Pentagon investigation ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A grand jury will not look into the Trayvon Martin case, a special prosecutor said Monday, leaving the decision of whether to charge the teen’s shooter in her hands alone and eliminating the possibility of a first-degree murder charge. That prosecutor, Angela Corey, said her decision had ...

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday the campaign against the beef filler called “pink slime” by food activists is a “vicious smear” and called for a congressional probe after more than 200 Iowans lost their jobs. Beef Products Inc., which treats the lean beef trimmings with ammonia hydroxide to kill ...