Fifteen injured Fort Hood soldiers remain hospitalized Monday, and are being treated for the injuries they sustained in the shooting massacre on Fort Hood’s Army base, Commander Lt. General Robert Cone said. Twenty-seven soldiers have been released, Gen. Cone said. The Army is now focusing its efforts on behavioral assessments …

Who said “Virginia is for lovers?” Not today. Today Virginia was for winners. Creigh Deeds, this doesn’t mean you. Today, the Old Dominion was all for the new governor — Bob McDonnell, an Iraq War veteran with 21 years in the U.S. Army. McDonnell’s victory was almost as decisive as …

Sunny San Diego may be synonymous with a justifiably famous zoo, but there’s far more going on in this city that manages to be both action-packed and laid back. Visitors are handsomely rewarded with plentiful beaches that hold appeal for avid surfers and sandcastle builders, acres of green golf courses, …

A pair of teachers, a rookie space pilot and Japan’s first endurance spaceflyer form only part of the tight-knit astronaut crew poised to blast off Wednesday night aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery. Commanding Discovery’s spaceflight is veteran NASA astronaut Lee Archambault, who will lead a crew of seven on a …

Tennessee authorities on Tuesday evening announced the capture of fugitive Sean Williams, who is accused of raping women and children, in Florida after a weeks-long chase down the East Coast. Williams, former owner of Glass and Concrete Contracting LLC in Johnson City, was recently arrested and charged with 20 counts …

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to deliver a speech by Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to supporters. The stunning development could help his political party to win upcoming elections, analysts said Monday. The replicated voice of Pakistan’s most popular opposition figure was used to …

An eastern Wisconsin man has been charged in a wrong-way collision that killed four siblings last weekend, authorities said. Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday’s crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Farmer, 47, …

HONG KONG – Chinese state media have blasted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers for being “destroyers” of democratic development a day after they shot down Beijing’s election blueprint for the British former colony. The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper published an editorial Friday deploring the vote and accusing the pro-democracy …

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The president of Kyrgyzstan is lambasting the United States for honoring a jailed Kyrgyz journalist. The U.S. State Department earlier this month conferred a share of its annual Human Rights Defender award to Azimzhan Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek journalist who is in prison for stirring up “ethnic …

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised a deal between Iran and world powers in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Putin told Netanyahu in Thursday’s phone conversation that the agreement “provided reliable guarantees” that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, according to the Kremlin. The deal …