MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.

Americans who’ve formed an opinion of his second inaugural address last week broadly approve of it, the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds.

The military warned the country could collapse under the weight of this turmoil.

"Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers," the finance minister said.

Malala Yousufzai has become a symbol of resistance to the Taliban's efforts to deny women education.

The bipartisan plan outlined earlier this week was just vague enough to bring Republicans and Democrats together. For now.

Denouncing "unrelenting horrors" in Syria's war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed on Wednesday for an end to the violence and urged more aid to address a situation he said was catastrophic and worsening by the day.

Toyota Motor Corp will recall 1.1 million cars globally for defects, including 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the U.S. to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently, the automaker said.

The man killed the driver when he refused to let the child off the bus.

Police searched a home in San Francisco on Tuesday in connection with the high-profile disappearance of a 10-year-old boy nearly 30 years ago.

Iran's elite Quds Force and Hezbollah militants are learning from string of failed attacks and seeking Western targets.

The National Rifle Association and gun-control advocates, including the husband of wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, face off at the year's first Senate hearing on what lawmakers should do to curb gun violence.

HONOLULU (AP) — The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years.

South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday amid heightened regional tensions, caused in part, by North Korea's successful launch of its own rocket last month..

A vast storm system packing thunderstorms and possible tornadoes raked the central U.S. and South overnight, leaving one person injured from a lightning strike in Arkansas amid downed trees and scattered power outages.