NAIROBI, Kenya – Elephants in Kenyan national parks and reserves are leaving their drought-stricken sanctuaries to search for water and food near human settlements, where they have attacked starving people trying to protect their crops. U.N. agencies have warned of hunger across the region because of drought and say the …

NEW YORK – The Dow Jones Industrial average closed above 11,000 for the first time in 4 1/2 years as the market continued to rally on Monday. The last time the Dow ended the trading day above 11,000 was June 7, 2001. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 52.59 …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Unlabeled fossils — a jawbone, some teeth and armored plates — have been identified as those of a 30-foot-long crocodile, the largest that ever lived in prehistoric New Mexico. The fossils of the predator had been stored, unclassified, for six years among the 100,000 fossils at the …

WASHINGTON – Congressional negotiators Thursday were closing in on a deal on a massive tax and trade package that is the main obstacle to bringing the 109th session of Congress to an end. Senate aides said they had reached tentative agreement on the legislation, which would extend tax breaks affecting …

NAIROBI, Kenya – About 250 people have been killed and 100,000 have lost their homes as catastrophic floods ravaged East Africa, aid workers said Friday as rains continued to pound the impoverished region. Floods have hit Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia, affecting more than 1.8 million people, according to the …

WASHINGTON – The Defense Department is looking into how access was granted a year ago to an evangelical Christian group that shot a promotional video inside the Pentagon. It included active duty military officers speaking on the group’s behalf while in uniform. A Pentagon spokesman said Monday the Defense Department …

I seriously doubt Santa will try to make it down Route Boston in Fallujah this year to bring that new dartboard to Lt. Greco… too many IEDs! The Marines of Alpha Company, 1/24, will celebrate this Christmas far from home and their families, but they will manage to get by …

CHICAGO – As businessmen huddle over tea in a dessert shop across from the charred ruins of their stores, families stop to console them and lament the scar in the heart of the South Asian neighborhood on Devon Avenue, widely recognized as the largest on this side of the globe. …

TORONTO – Police who posted surveillance video from a murder scene on the wildly popular YouTube site have been rewarded — a suspect has turned himself in. Two weeks after the 72-second clip on the video-sharing giant drew international attention from as faraway as Singapore, George Gallo, 24, turned himself …

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped sharply for a second straight week, pushing total claims down to the lowest level in two months. The Labor Department reported that 304,000 newly laid off workers filed claims for jobless benefits last week, a drop of 20,000 …