KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — As the last of 30,000 U. S. reinforcements arrive in Afghanistan, U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday got a firsthand look at operations in the dangerous south where Afghan and international troops are ramping up security. Gates traveled to Kandahar a...

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U. S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war. A military aircraft flying over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas...

MIAMI (AP) — A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several hours on the eve of the Labor Day travel period, an airport spokesman said Friday. Police bomb squad authorities went about 9:30 p...

BUXTON, N. C. (AP) — The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds early Friday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) — A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was believed to be among the dead. An employee of R. E. Borrmann's Steel Co. says the twin-engine Queen...