HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As a general rule, it's difficult to sue the U. S. Postal Service for lost, delayed or mishandled mail. But a case before the U. S. Supreme Court involving a Texas landlord who alleges her mail was deliberately withheld for two years is looking to challenge that, in a proceeding the cash-strapped Postal Service says could prompt a deluge of lawsuits over the very common, if frustrating, phenomenon of missing mail. That concern takes on particular resonance during the I...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Kremlin official confirmed Wednesday that U. S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a consensus on ending the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine pick up speed. But Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, insisted that Kremlin officials still haven't seen a U. S. peace proposal, even though representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine held talks earlier this a...

HONOLULU (AP) — The on-and-off eruption that's been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii's Big Island for nearly a year resumed Tuesday as Kilauea volcano sent fountains of lava soaring 400 feet (122 meters) into the air. The molten rock was confined within Kilauea’s summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the U. S. Geological Survey said. No homes were threatened. It's the 37th time Kilauea has shot lava since last December, when the current eruption began. The latest a...