WASHINGTON — In less than three hours Friday, the extraordinary forces tugging at Barack Obama's presidency — and the Republicans who will soon take more control of Congress — came into ...
WASHINGTON — A child nutrition bill on its way to President Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fund-raisers that health advocates say sometimes replace nutritious meals in the lunchroom.Some ...
WASHINGTON — A child nutrition bill on its way to President Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fund-raisers that health advocates say sometimes replace nutritious meals in the lunchroom.
Some ...
WikiLeaks struggled to stay online Friday as governments and hackers hounded the organization across the Internet, trying to deprive it of a direct line to the public.
President Barack Obama has granted the first pardons of his presidency, to nine people convicted of crimes including possessing drugs, counterfeiting and even mutilating coins.
Bucking the Pentagon's top leaders, the chiefs of the Army and Marines urged Congress on Friday not to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, at least not while troops are at war in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama told U.S. troops in a surprise holiday-season visit Friday that they are making important progress in Afghanistan, and he pledged the country would never again be a "safe haven for terrorists."
With all the shrieking we've heard lately about the high unemployment rate, creeping Socialism and rampant privacy invasions, it's strange that hardly anyone makes much noise about the one piece of good news that keeps getting better each year.If you missed it, here ...
With all the shrieking we've heard lately about the high unemployment rate, creeping Socialism and rampant privacy invasions, it's strange that hardly anyone makes much noise about the one piece of good news that keeps getting better each year.
If you missed it, here ...
WASHINGTON — Here's a message TV viewers may not want to mute: The days of getting blasted out of the easy chair by blaring TV commercials may soon be over.The House gave final congressional approval Thursday to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly ...
WASHINGTON — Here's a message TV viewers may not want to mute: The days of getting blasted out of the easy chair by blaring TV commercials may soon be over.
The House gave final congressional approval Thursday to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly ...
WASHINGTON — A Washington art gallery pledged a round-the-clock protest Thursday against what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution for removing a video that shows ants ...
Heath care providers are pledging to stop the overuse of radiation on patients during medical exams in a new, nationwide safety effort launched this week in Chicago. The first step in the Image Wisely campaign is a pledge — signed so far by nearly 700 health care ...
Heath care providers are pledging to stop the overuse of radiation on patients during medical exams in a new, nationwide safety effort launched this week in Chicago.
The first step in the Image Wisely campaign is a pledge — signed so far by nearly 700 health care ...
A critical compromise to head off a year-end tax increase for millions of Americans took shape in private talks between the White House and congressional Republicans Thursday, and an extension ...
More children would eat lunches and dinners at school under legislation passed Thursday by the House and sent to the president, part of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to end childhood hunger and fight childhood obesity.
Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel was censured by his House colleagues for financial misconduct Thursday in a solemn moment of humiliation in the sunset of his career.
Directly challenging the Pentagon's top leadership, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday snubbed a military study on gays as flawed and said letting gays serve openly would be ...
The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on Earth and possibly beyond.
The House passed a bill Thursday to extend middle class tax cuts while letting those for the wealthy expire, even as talks continued on extending them all.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday backed the creation of a "Do Not Track" option — similar to the popular National Do Not Call Registry for people who want to avoid telemarketers — to allow consumers to protect their privacy as they use the ...
WASHINGTON — A painful package of spending cuts and tax increases drew sharp challenges from both the left and right on President Obama's deficit commission Wednesday, putting approval in ...
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center is adding the Family Research Council and four other religious organizations to its list of hate groups because of "falsehoods" in their anti-gay statements. Mark Potok, director of the center's Intelligence Project, ...
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center is adding the Family Research Council and four other religious organizations to its list of hate groups because of "falsehoods" in their anti-gay statements.
Mark Potok, director of the center's Intelligence Project, ...
WASHINGTON — The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions.A new study suggests there are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion of them, or three times as many as scientists previously calculated. ...
WASHINGTON — The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions.
A new study suggests there are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion of them, or three times as many as scientists previously calculated. ...
NEW ORLEANS — Not much keeps Archbishop Gregory Aymond up at night. But one thing does make him toss and turn.In the past four years, especially after Hurricane Katrina, Catholic school enrollment has been steadily falling. Finding ways to reverse the trend has been ...
NEW ORLEANS — Not much keeps Archbishop Gregory Aymond up at night. But one thing does make him toss and turn.
In the past four years, especially after Hurricane Katrina, Catholic school enrollment has been steadily falling. Finding ways to reverse the trend has been ...
LOS ANGELES — A ghoulish piece of American history is up for sale to the highest bidder.The modest wooden coffin in which John F. Kennedy's assassin was buried for 18 years is being ...
LOS ANGELES — A ghoulish piece of American history is up for sale to the highest bidder.
The modest wooden coffin in which John F. Kennedy's assassin was buried for 18 years is being ...
Rabbi Mark Sobel, spiritual leader of a Reform-rooted synagogue in Burbank, Calif., enjoys "winter" carols come Hanukkah and Christmastime, but this year is a little different.The ...
Rabbi Mark Sobel, spiritual leader of a Reform-rooted synagogue in Burbank, Calif., enjoys "winter" carols come Hanukkah and Christmastime, but this year is a little different.
The ...
A federal judge in Oklahoma City has issued a temporary injunction against an Oklahoma referendum that sought to ban the use of Islamic law, or Shariah, in state courts.U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange had earlier issued an order to prevent state election ...
A federal judge in Oklahoma City has issued a temporary injunction against an Oklahoma referendum that sought to ban the use of Islamic law, or Shariah, in state courts.
U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange had earlier issued an order to prevent state election ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The National Association of Attorneys General is asking cigarette maker RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. to stop a promotional campaign for Camel cigarettes that the group says appeals to young people.In a letter to the nation's second-largest cigarette maker, ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The National Association of Attorneys General is asking cigarette maker RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. to stop a promotional campaign for Camel cigarettes that the group says appeals to young people.
In a letter to the nation's second-largest cigarette maker, ...
WASHINGTON — A 28-foot-tall statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is rising on the National Mall as part of a new memorial that will be dedicated next year.The granite sculpture, located ...
WASHINGTON — A 28-foot-tall statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is rising on the National Mall as part of a new memorial that will be dedicated next year.
The granite sculpture, located ...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was quietly extradited from Utah to Texas, where he was arraigned Wednesday to face trial on bigamy and sexual assault charges. ...
Amazon.com Inc. forced WikiLeaks to stop using the U.S. company's computers to distribute embarrassing State Department communications and other documents, WikiLeaks said Wednesday.
New soldiers expecting Army drill sergeants to bust their chops over poor posture or a wayward gaze may instead want to avoid a more modern military transgression: relying on fast food for ...
A tough new cost-cutting playbook submitted by the co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's deficit commission drew critical support from the chairman and senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee Wednesday.
Shawn Slonsky's children know by now not to give him Christmas lists filled with the latest gizmos. The 44-year-old union electrician is one of nearly 2 million Americans whose extended unemployment benefits will run out this month, making the holiday season less about ...
The U.S. economy improved in most parts of the country this fall as factories produced more and shoppers spent more money.
* The House passed landmark legislation to pay for some $4.6 billion in settlements with American Indians and black farmers who say they faced discrimination and mistreatment from the government.* Republicans reluctant to quickly ratify a nuclear weapons deal with ...
* The House passed landmark legislation to pay for some $4.6 billion in settlements with American Indians and black farmers who say they faced discrimination and mistreatment from the government.
* Republicans reluctant to quickly ratify a nuclear weapons deal with ...
WASHINGTON — Gay troops can serve openly in the armed forces without harming the military's ability to fight, the Pentagon's top leaders declared Tuesday, calling for the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" ban to be scrapped and pointing to a new survey to show most troops ...
WASHINGTON — The State Department severed its computer files from the government's classified network, officials said Tuesday, as U.S. and world leaders tried to clean up from the embarrassing leak that spilled America's sensitive documents onto screens around the ...
WASHINGTON — By a nearly 3-2 ratio, the Senate voted Tuesday to let lawmakers keep sprinkling bills with home-state pet projects like roads, bridges, water treatment plants, grants to local police departments and special interest tax breaks. But with anti-earmark GOP ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. — The fire at an Islamic center where the man accused of plotting a bombing in Portland sometimes worshiped appears to have been started by someone who broke an office ...
WASHINGTON — Reaching no quick fixes, President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress vowed Tuesday to seek a compromise on their sharply different views about tax cuts before year's ...
President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work out their differences over taxes and vowed after their first formal meeting since the elections to work harder on a more cooperative approach.
A monthly survey shows Americans’ confidence in the economy rose in November to the highest level in five months amid more hopeful signs.
The U.S. Senate defeated an effort Tuesday morning to impose a three-year ban on earmarks, the special line items for local projects or priorities that members of Congress add to spending bills.
The Pentagon's study on gays in the military has determined that overturning the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on serving openly might cause some disruption at first but would not create ...
Supporters say passage was critical in the wake of large-scale outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli in peanuts, eggs and produce. Those outbreaks have exposed a lack of resources and authority ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Some residents of this famously liberal city are unnerved, not only by a plot to bomb an annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony last week but also by the police tactics in the case. They questioned whether federal agents crossed the line by ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Some residents of this famously liberal city are unnerved, not only by a plot to bomb an annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony last week but also by the police tactics in the case.
They questioned whether federal agents crossed the line by ...
WASHINGTON — In the first test of Washington's new political alignment, President Obama will meet with Republican leaders today with the nation's tax rates and a nuclear arms treaty in doubt.Neither side expects final deals from an hour-long encounter, but the ...
WASHINGTON — In the first test of Washington's new political alignment, President Obama will meet with Republican leaders today with the nation's tax rates and a nuclear arms treaty in doubt.
Neither side expects final deals from an hour-long encounter, but the ...
MARINETTE, Wis. — Authorities said two dozen people were released unharmed Monday night from a Wisconsin high school classroom where a student armed with a handgun had held them hostage. Emergency Management Director Eric Burmeister said all 23 students and a teacher ...
MARINETTE, Wis. — Authorities said two dozen people were released unharmed Monday night from a Wisconsin high school classroom where a student armed with a handgun had held them hostage.
Emergency Management Director Eric Burmeister said all 23 students and a teacher ...
News ran wild Monday that Heathrow Elementary in Florida's Seminole County had banned red and green during December because the colors are associated with Christmas.The "Fox & Friends" program and other conservative media outlets cited the story as another sign of ...
News ran wild Monday that Heathrow Elementary in Florida's Seminole County had banned red and green during December because the colors are associated with Christmas.
The "Fox & Friends" program and other conservative media outlets cited the story as another sign of ...
Congress agreed Monday to a one-month delay in Medicare payment cuts to doctors, giving a short-term reprieve to a looming crisis over treatment of the nation's elderly.
An Afghan border policeman killed six American servicemen during a training mission Monday, underscoring one of the risks in a U.S.-led program to educate enough recruits to turn over the lead for security to Afghan forces by 2014.
President Barack Obama on Monday called for freezing the pay of 2 million federal employees, saying the move is the first of many difficult decisions that must be made to slash the nation's ...
Striking back, the Obama administration branded the leak of more than a quarter-million sensitive files an attack on the United States Monday and raised the prospect of criminal prosecution ...
Retailers remain unsure how much people will spend before Christmas in an economy that's still bumpy. Shoppers, grappling with an unemployment rate of 9.6 percent, remain careful about spending and driven by deals.
A Canadian biotechnology company has asked the U.S. to approve a genetically modified apple that won't brown soon after its sliced, saying the improvement could boost sales of apples for ...
The House ethics committee voted 9-1 on Nov. 18 to recommend a censure of the 80-year-old Democrat from New York's Harlem. Rangel wants his punishment for ethics violations downgraded to a reprimand, according to congressional and nongovernment sources.
The much discussed documentary "Waiting for Superman," which offers a harsh portrait of the country's public schools, has inspired a promotional collaboration among the Borders Group ...
CHICAGO — A leading medical group says there's some evidence that probiotics, or "good" bacteria, may have limited benefits for certain illnesses in children. But the group says the science isn't yet strong enough to advocate infant formulas containing probiotics. And ...
CHICAGO — A leading medical group says there's some evidence that probiotics, or "good" bacteria, may have limited benefits for certain illnesses in children.
But the group says the science isn't yet strong enough to advocate infant formulas containing probiotics. And ...
NEW YORK — It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard ...
NEW YORK — It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.
On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard ...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department probably will never receive congressional approval to put the alleged Sept. 11 conspirators on trial in a civilian court, a key senator on the issue of terrorism trials said Sunday.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he believes he ...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department probably will never receive congressional approval to put the alleged Sept. 11 conspirators on trial in a civilian court, a key senator on the issue of terrorism trials said Sunday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he believes he ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Someone set fire to an Islamic center on Sunday, two days after a man who worshiped there was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's ...
WASHINGTON — Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.Budget proposals from leaders in both parties have urged shrinking or eliminating tax breaks that ...
WASHINGTON — Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.
Budget proposals from leaders in both parties have urged shrinking or eliminating tax breaks that ...
PITTSBURGH — In the unlikely event that your Christmas list this year includes every item mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," be prepared to pay nearly $100,000.Trying to buy the 364 items repeated in all the song's verses — from 12 drummers drumming to a ...
PITTSBURGH — In the unlikely event that your Christmas list this year includes every item mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," be prepared to pay nearly $100,000.
Trying to buy the 364 items repeated in all the song's verses — from 12 drummers drumming to a ...
Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing ...
Rep. Charles Rangel is ready to make a last stand to salvage his reputation and tell the House that a censure should be reserved for crooked politicians.
A U.S. supercarrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense Yellow Sea on Sunday for joint military exercises that were a united show of force just days after a deadly North ...
WASHINGTON — When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it was in sharp contrast to the time when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women ...
NEW YORK — Shoppers crowded stores on Black Friday but spent just a little more than last year on the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, according to data released Saturday by a research firm.Retail spending rose a slight 0.3 percent, to $10.69 billion, ...
NEW YORK — Shoppers crowded stores on Black Friday but spent just a little more than last year on the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, according to data released Saturday by a research firm.
Retail spending rose a slight 0.3 percent, to $10.69 billion, ...
Undercover agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van full of what he believed were explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, federal authorities said.
SAN DIEGO — A cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials — the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday.The tunnel ...
SAN DIEGO — A cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials — the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday.
The tunnel ...
President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving ...
Hershey contends that Mars' packaging of its Dove peanut butter chocolate Promise squares is trying to piggyback on the patented orange, brown and tan wrappings of the Reese's peanut butter ...
A recent study shows that texting at the school has surpassed doodling, daydreaming and note-passing to become the top classroom distraction.
A 78-year-old South Carolina man with more than a dozen weapons in his home has been arrested after federal authorities say he told a nurse he wanted to kill President Barack Obama.
The British government says it has been briefed by the United States about an expected release of American diplomatic files by the WikiLeaks website.
SANFORD, Fla. - A worker hit by a golf ball Wednesday at a Florida country club died Thursday afternoon when he was removed from life support, a police spokesman said. Maurice Hayden was doing maintenance work on the par-5 second hole of the Mayfair Country Club in ...
SANFORD, Fla. - A worker hit by a golf ball Wednesday at a Florida country club died Thursday afternoon when he was removed from life support, a police spokesman said.
Maurice Hayden was doing maintenance work on the par-5 second hole of the Mayfair Country Club in ...
LOS ANGELES — Residents in the bustling Los Angeles sector that is the largest Korean enclave in the United States are decrying the North Korean attack on a South Korean island as ...
WASHINGTON — Beginning in March, consumers will for the first time be able to check a government database that will compile safety complaints about a wide array of products such as toys and electrical appliances.The public database, approved Wednesday by the Consumer ...
WASHINGTON — Beginning in March, consumers will for the first time be able to check a government database that will compile safety complaints about a wide array of products such as toys and electrical appliances.
The public database, approved Wednesday by the Consumer ...
WASHINGTON — Social Security taxes would rise and benefits would fall under proposals from the co-chairmen of the special deficit-reduction panel that's due to report to Congress by Wednesday.The draft from the co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal ...
WASHINGTON — Social Security taxes would rise and benefits would fall under proposals from the co-chairmen of the special deficit-reduction panel that's due to report to Congress by Wednesday.
The draft from the co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal ...
NEW YORK — Not all Americans tucked into turkey with their families on Thanksgiving. Some were out shopping, hitting sales ahead of the crowds expected today. After a year of ...
NEW YORK — Not all Americans tucked into turkey with their families on Thanksgiving. Some were out shopping, hitting sales ahead of the crowds expected today.
After a year of ...
WASHINGTON — They just needed some leg room: New research shows the great dinosaur die-off made way for mammals to explode in size — some more massive than several elephants put ...
LOS ANGELES — An Alabama man who served prison time in Australia for his wife's drowning death during their honeymoon returned Thursday to the United States, where he faces murder charges ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's effort to farm out astronauts' space station trips to private companies over the next decade is under fire again, this time by federal deficit hit men.Spaceflight vendors stand to lose $1.2 billion in NASA funding in 2015 under a proposal ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's effort to farm out astronauts' space station trips to private companies over the next decade is under fire again, this time by federal deficit hit men.
Spaceflight vendors stand to lose $1.2 billion in NASA funding in 2015 under a proposal ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay argued throughout his trial that the deck was stacked against him by a politically motivated prosecutor and a jury from the most ...
WASHINGTON — Rolling Thunder won't let a fire stop its longtime mission of educating visitors to the nation's capital about soldiers still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.An ...
WASHINGTON — Rolling Thunder won't let a fire stop its longtime mission of educating visitors to the nation's capital about soldiers still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.
An ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration struggled behind the scenes to determine how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP well this year and defended estimates that for months were inaccurate, according to thousands of government e-mails.A senior scientist ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration struggled behind the scenes to determine how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP well this year and defended estimates that for months were inaccurate, according to thousands of government e-mails.
A senior scientist ...
Saying America has a history of doing what it takes to make a better tomorrow, President Barack Obama is calling on a country climbing out of its worst economic slump in decades to summon that spirit again this holiday season.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorneys for Wesley Snipes are asking a judge to extend the actor's bail as he prepares for a possible appeal of his three-year prison sentence for a tax conviction.The Orlando Sentinel reports that attorneys urged a judge Tuesday to continue the bail ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorneys for Wesley Snipes are asking a judge to extend the actor's bail as he prepares for a possible appeal of his three-year prison sentence for a tax conviction.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that attorneys urged a judge Tuesday to continue the bail ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Some Roman Catholics are confused. Some are angry. Others just don't believe the pope meant what it seems he said.Days after the release of Pope Benedict XVI's ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Some Roman Catholics are confused. Some are angry. Others just don't believe the pope meant what it seems he said.
Days after the release of Pope Benedict XVI's ...
So-called synthetic marijuana products were already being monitored in New Jersey because of their unknown long-term effects, according to the DEA.State lawmakers took aim at the substances earlier this year. An Assembly bill proposed in May by Mary Pat Angelini, ...
So-called synthetic marijuana products were already being monitored in New Jersey because of their unknown long-term effects, according to the DEA.
State lawmakers took aim at the substances earlier this year. An Assembly bill proposed in May by Mary Pat Angelini, ...
WASHINGTON — Cracking down on fake pot, the government began emergency action Wednesday to outlaw five chemicals used in herbal blends to make synthetic marijuana. They're sold in drug paraphernalia shops and on the Internet to a burgeoning market of teens and young ...
LOS ANGELES — The more than 300-year-old Torah survived the Holocaust, was later rescued from a deserted Jewish temple in Prague and eventually wound up at a Northridge, Calif., ...
When it comes to liturgical details, the Vatican has clear guidelines about sacred objects that are blessed for use during Mass."The church has always sought," notes the Book of Blessings, "to ensure that all those things that are involved in any way in divine worship ...
When it comes to liturgical details, the Vatican has clear guidelines about sacred objects that are blessed for use during Mass.
"The church has always sought," notes the Book of Blessings, "to ensure that all those things that are involved in any way in divine worship ...
What if the president declared a national holiday and the people of almost half the states ignored it?That's what happened on Thanksgiving Day in 1939. The headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Nov. 23 of that year read, "Today Is Thanksgiving Day For 25 States ...
What if the president declared a national holiday and the people of almost half the states ignored it?
That's what happened on Thanksgiving Day in 1939. The headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Nov. 23 of that year read, "Today Is Thanksgiving Day For 25 States ...
BALTIMORE — Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible.A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be ...
BALTIMORE — Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible.
A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be ...
LOS ANGELES — More turkey, less white bread and mashed potatoes. Just in time for holiday feasting, a large study found that diets higher in protein and lower in carbohydrates can help ...
WASHINGTON — John A. Boehner, soon to be speaker of the House, is a conservative Midwesterner who loves his cigarettes. Nancy Pelosi is a San Francisco liberal who, upon becoming speaker ...
WASHINGTON — A federal jury convicted five Somali men Wednesday of piracy on the high seas, the first such verdict in an American court in nearly 200 years, for shooting at a U.S. Navy warship disguised as a merchant vessel in the Indian Ocean last spring.The ...
WASHINGTON — A federal jury convicted five Somali men Wednesday of piracy on the high seas, the first such verdict in an American court in nearly 200 years, for shooting at a U.S. Navy warship disguised as a merchant vessel in the Indian Ocean last spring.
Taxpayers must update their addresses to receive the checks.
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress — was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
A federal judge overseeing a major legal settlement for thousands of ground zero workers who were exposed to World Trade Center dust said Wednesday that he would give a handful of holdouts one last chance to take the deal.
After three years in prison, a gaunt-looking Amanda Knox returned to an Italian court Wednesday for a hearing that marked the opening of an appeals trial for the American student convicted of ...
The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show ...
LAS VEGAS — Michael Sommermeyer's Thanksgiving plan goes like this: Load his wife and children into their Ford Taurus, hand his teens an iPad stocked with movies and drive 15 hours — from Las Vegas to Texas. Sommermeyer would not have it any other ...
LAS VEGAS — Michael Sommermeyer's Thanksgiving plan goes like this: Load his wife and children into their Ford Taurus, hand his teens an iPad stocked with movies and drive 15 hours — from Las Vegas to Texas.
Sommermeyer would not have it any other ...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived.Only three days after GOP ...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived.
Only three days after GOP ...
SAN ANTONIO — In a murder-for-hire case worthy of a Dan Brown novel, a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is citing some progress in the nine-year-old Afghanistan war in its latest twice-annual report to Congress, even as violence is on the rise and more Afghans say they fear for their safety.The Pentagon-led assessment, released ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is citing some progress in the nine-year-old Afghanistan war in its latest twice-annual report to Congress, even as violence is on the rise and more Afghans say they fear for their safety.
The Pentagon-led assessment, released ...
WASHINGTON — Tea Party backers fashion themselves as "we the people," but polls show the Republican Party's most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average ...
Rep. Steve Rothman fired chief of staff Robert Decheine after Decheine was arrested in Maryland for soliciting sex from a minor.
A bomb squad has issued the all-clear after examining two suspicious bags found in a cargo area at Boston's Logan International Airport.
The jawbone is human, though it is unclear who it belongs to and whether efforts will be made to identify the person, officials said in a statement.
Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole pleaded with Thanksgiving travelers for understanding and urged them not to boycott full-body scans on Wednesday. It would only snarl ...
WASHINGTONThe generation that promoted free love has grown old and cranky about sex.Faced with performance problems, menopause blues and an increased mismatch of expectations between the sexes, baby boomers are the unhappiest Americans of all when it comes to ...
WASHINGTON
The generation that promoted free love has grown old and cranky about sex.
Faced with performance problems, menopause blues and an increased mismatch of expectations between the sexes, baby boomers are the unhappiest Americans of all when it comes to ...
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy Newspapers-Marist poll.The post-election survey showed that ...
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy Newspapers-Marist poll.
The post-election survey showed that ...
A jury has found Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique guilty of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy back in 2001, when her disappearance became a national sensation.
Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of Iowa, the first living Medal of Honor recipient from the wars in Afghanistan, receiving a standing ovation with his wife, Jennifer, during the Jets-Texans game ...
Among age groups, baby boomers are the unhappiest with their sex lives. Some 24 percent say they're dissatisfied, compared with 12 percent of 18-29 year olds, 20 percent of 30-44 year olds and 17 percent of those over 65.
Aftershocks continue from Charlie Sheen's stormy night last month in a Manhattan hotel.
A toddler has died after falling 50 feet from a luxury suite at the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Golden State Warriors in the Staples Center arena.
The nation's airport security chief urged travelers not to boycott full-body scans on Wednesday — one of the busiest flying days of the year — as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches with some ...
Whatever happened to Richard Bernstein, Wall Street's favorite pessimist? He's an optimist now.The former chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch built a reputation as a contrarian throughout the 2000s, the era of cheap credit. As home prices soared, Bernstein ...
Whatever happened to Richard Bernstein, Wall Street's favorite pessimist? He's an optimist now.
The former chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch built a reputation as a contrarian throughout the 2000s, the era of cheap credit. As home prices soared, Bernstein ...
St. Louis overtook Camden as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. ...
St. Louis overtook Camden as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.
The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. ...
Sen. Bob Menendez emerged from the Democrats' election debacle with more power in Washington because of his work as chairman of a key campaign committee that bucked history and kept his ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI's comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight against ...
For only the second time, the U.S. government has approved a test in people of a treatment using embryonic stem cells — this time for a rare disease that causes serious vision loss.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she won't run again for elective office, ruling out a future presidential bid.
LOS ANGELES — Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" exceed federal limits for lead in children's products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned by The ...
CHICAGO — Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found. But the results released online today are a mixed bag: Some parents ...
CHICAGO — Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found.
But the results released online today are a mixed bag: Some parents ...
NEW YORK — Late mortgage payments jumped sharply in several Northeastern states during the third quarter, while the national delinquency rate rose at a far slower pace.The rate of borrowers who were 60 days or more past due on their home loans jumped sharply in New ...
NEW YORK — Late mortgage payments jumped sharply in several Northeastern states during the third quarter, while the national delinquency rate rose at a far slower pace.
The rate of borrowers who were 60 days or more past due on their home loans jumped sharply in New ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The deaths of a young mother and her three small children whose bodies were found in their home are homicides, police said Sunday.Autopsies were completed Sunday ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The deaths of a young mother and her three small children whose bodies were found in their home are homicides, police said Sunday.
Autopsies were completed Sunday ...
Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living Medal of Honor recipient from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has received a standing ovation from the crowd during the second quarter of the ...
The head of the agency responsible for airport security, facing protests from travelers and pressure from the White House, appeared to give ground Sunday on his position that there would be no ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama is preparing new overtures to business that may start with a walk into the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a retreat with corporate chief executive officers, according to people familiar with his plans.The Obama ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama is preparing new overtures to business that may start with a walk into the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a retreat with corporate chief executive officers, according to people familiar with his plans.
The Obama ...
SEATTLE — Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master's degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more effective has been mostly debunked.Despite more than a decade of research showing the money ...
SEATTLE — Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master's degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more effective has been mostly debunked.
Despite more than a decade of research showing the money ...
WASHINGTON — The Air Force mistakenly gave rival companies sensitive information that contained each other’s confidential bids in a long-standing, multibillion dollar competition to build a ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The estranged wife of the man charged with abducting Elizabeth Smart in 2002 said Friday that he began stalking young girls about a year earlier, and in hindsight she believes he used religion to manipulate her."He was a great deceiver," Wanda Eileen ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The estranged wife of the man charged with abducting Elizabeth Smart in 2002 said Friday that he began stalking young girls about a year earlier, and in hindsight she believes he used religion to manipulate her.
"He was a great deceiver," Wanda Eileen ...
WASHINGTON — Jurors in the Chandra Levy murder trial have concluded a third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.Ingmar Guandique is facing two counts of murder in the 2001 disappearance and death of Washington intern. Her case became a sensation after an ...
WASHINGTON — Jurors in the Chandra Levy murder trial have concluded a third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
Ingmar Guandique is facing two counts of murder in the 2001 disappearance and death of Washington intern. Her case became a sensation after an ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Earthlings are seeing their planet in a whole new light, thanks to NASA and its astronauts aboard the Internet-wired space station.They're beaming down ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Earthlings are seeing their planet in a whole new light, thanks to NASA and its astronauts aboard the Internet-wired space station.
They're beaming down ...
WASHINGTON — Despite their claims, the Republicans' ban on earmarks won't stop lawmakers from steering taxpayer dollars to pet projects. And it will have little if any effect on Washington's far graver problem — the gigantic budget deficit.Saying Election Day ...
WASHINGTON — Despite their claims, the Republicans' ban on earmarks won't stop lawmakers from steering taxpayer dollars to pet projects. And it will have little if any effect on Washington's far graver problem — the gigantic budget deficit.
Saying Election Day ...
ATLANTA — A veteran federal judge who was arrested on charges that he bought and used drugs with a stripper pleaded guilty Friday to two drug-related charges, including a felony count of giving her cocaine even though he knew she was a convicted felon.U.S. Senior ...
ATLANTA — A veteran federal judge who was arrested on charges that he bought and used drugs with a stripper pleaded guilty Friday to two drug-related charges, including a felony count of giving her cocaine even though he knew she was a convicted felon.
U.S. Senior ...
WASHINGTON — Although still in wide use more than a half-century after introduction, Darvon and Darvocet and their generic counterparts are easily replaceable, pain management experts said Friday after the Food and Drug Administration asked that the popular painkillers be ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.
The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for ...
Beverly Hills detectives discovered pieces of shattered glass at an intersection close to where a veteran Hollywood publicist crashed her car with several bullet wounds in her chest, the city's mayor said Friday.
The Transportation Security Administration says airline pilots will be allowed to skip some physical security checks at airports.
One of Congress' most likable veterans, Rep. Charles Rangel, would become the 23rd House member in the nation's history to be censured if the House goes along with a recommendation of its ethics committee.
Michael Harden's problems were just beginning when agents rolled up to his cluttered trailer to arrest him for letting the battery in his GPS ankle bracelet run low, making it difficult to track the movements of the paroled child molester.
NEW YORK — Conservative blogger Kevin DuJan is psyched. He's actually starting to think Palin can win the whole kit and kaboodle.No, not Sarah — though he hopes she'll be the next ...
NEW YORK — Conservative blogger Kevin DuJan is psyched. He's actually starting to think Palin can win the whole kit and kaboodle.
No, not Sarah — though he hopes she'll be the next ...
WASHINGTON — The near-acquittal of the first Guantanamo detainee tried in federal court is reigniting the debate over whether to bring terrorism suspects to justice in the civilian legal system. The Obama administration made it clear Thursday that its position has not ...
WASHINGTON — The House ethics committee Thursday recommended censure for longtime Rep. Charles Rangel, suggesting that the New York Democrat suffer the embarrassment of standing before his ...
The White House says the $800 billion stimulus law passed in the early days of the Obama administration continues to improve economic conditions and increase employment.President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers issued a report Thursday concluding that the ...
The White House says the $800 billion stimulus law passed in the early days of the Obama administration continues to improve economic conditions and increase employment.
President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers issued a report Thursday concluding that the ...
PHOENIX — A boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million in lost meeting and convention business, a report released Thursday shows.The economic impact analysis commissioned by the Center for American ...
PHOENIX — A boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million in lost meeting and convention business, a report released Thursday shows.
The economic impact analysis commissioned by the Center for American ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama emphatically put his personal prestige behind the pending New START arms control treaty with Russia, calling it a "national security imperative" that the Senate ...
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans voted Thursday to deny an extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Americans and tried to cut off public funding for National Public Radio, moves that reinforced the GOP’s direction as their influence expands in Washington ...
The House ethics committee's chief counsel recommended Thursday that veteran Rep. Charles Rangel be censured for financial and fundraising misconduct as lawmakers neared closure on an embarrassing 2½-year-long scandal.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he's thinking about running for president, saying "everybody's ripping off the United States."
President Barack Obama sternly proclaimed ratification of the U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty "a national security imperative" Thursday, saying the Senate must act before Congress goes home ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It has endured for more than two centuries, offering hope to those grieving or searching for meaning to life. With its simple melody and message of salvation, "Amazing ...
WASHINGTON — In his news conference after the midterm elections, President Obama repeatedly said he hoped his party could work with the victorious Republicans once the voting was done.But so far, there is little sign of a detente in Washington. Over the weekend, after ...
WASHINGTON — In his news conference after the midterm elections, President Obama repeatedly said he hoped his party could work with the victorious Republicans once the voting was done.
But so far, there is little sign of a detente in Washington. Over the weekend, after ...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday became the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign, emerging victorious over her Tea Party rival in a stinging rebuke of ...
WASHINGTON — House Democrats gambled Wednesday that they can return to power under the same leaders who oversaw a 61-seat election loss, choosing Nancy Pelosi to remain their party chief ...
Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants a state pardon for long-dead rocker Jim Morrison, who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous 1969 concert in Miami.Crist said ...
Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants a state pardon for long-dead rocker Jim Morrison, who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous 1969 concert in Miami.
Crist said ...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday became the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign, emerging victorious over her tea party rival following a painstaking, week-long count of hand-written votes.
A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said.
House Democrats rejected an effort Wednesday led by Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. to postpone a vote on new party leaders.
WASHINGTON — The nation on Tuesday saluted its first living Medal of Honor winner of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, an Iowa sergeant who retrieved a wounded comrade under gunfire as the ...
DALLAS — Former President George W. Bush, joined by former administration officials including a noticeably thinner former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of State ...
WASHINGTON — Tea Party activists and other conservatives, eager to transform electoral gains into clout on Capitol Hill, are pressuring Republican leaders to take a hard-line approach in ...
WASHINGTON — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, said he does not believe an independent can win.Bloomberg, who is not ...
WASHINGTON — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, said he does not believe an independent can win.
Bloomberg, who is not ...
WASHINGTON — An agreement between the United States and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals was in danger of collapse Tuesday after an influential Republican senator said it should not ...
The U.S. and its NATO partners will soon announce how they plan for Afghans to take the lead in securing their own country by 2014, a proposal that offers the first clear indication of when President Obama envisions most American troops leaving Afghanistan.U.S. ...
The U.S. and its NATO partners will soon announce how they plan for Afghans to take the lead in securing their own country by 2014, a proposal that offers the first clear indication of when President Obama envisions most American troops leaving Afghanistan.
U.S. ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama: A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her Mercedes-Benz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car veering into a light post near Sunset Boulevard.Police said ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama: A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her Mercedes-Benz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car veering into a light post near Sunset Boulevard.
Police said ...
BALTIMORE — New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catho-lic Bishops on Tuesday in an upset victory over a moderate Arizona bishop who is the ...
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is expected to find that caffeine is an unsafe additive to alcoholic drinks, essentially banning them, and manufacturers will then be warned ...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules.An ethics panel of eight House peers ...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules.
An ethics panel of eight House peers ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A bomb threat targeting Ohio State University was e-mailed to the FBI Tuesday morning, prompting the school to evacuate four academic buildings, including the main library. ...
House Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader Wednesday despite massive party losses in this month's congressional elections that prompted some lawmakers to call for new ...
Airline passengers face potentially invasive pat-downs because terrorists are always looking for gaps in American security and undercover investigators found them at airports, the head of the ...
Seven new floats and two new balloons will make their debut at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The nation on Tuesday saluted its first living Medal of Honor winner of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, an Iowa sergeant who retrieved a wounded comrade under gunfire as the Taliban carried the ...
Dutch forensic experts are testing a piece of bone found on the Caribbean island of Aruba to see if it comes from missing American teenager Natalee Holloway, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
A bomb threat targeting Ohio State University was e-mailed to the FBI Tuesday morning, prompting the school to evacuate four academic buildings, including the main library. An initial search turned up nothing out of the ordinary, officials said.
Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment.
WASHINGTON — Dejected Democrats and invigorated Republicans returned Monday to the Capitol to face a mountain of unfinished work and greet more than 100 mainly Republican ...
Major legislation that could be considered in the lame-duck session of Congress:* Tax cuts. Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year. President Obama wants to make permanent those cuts affecting couples earning $250,000 or less a year. Republicans want all the ...
Major legislation that could be considered in the lame-duck session of Congress:
* Tax cuts. Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year. President Obama wants to make permanent those cuts affecting couples earning $250,000 or less a year. Republicans want all the ...
WASHINGTON — In an abrupt shift that is likely to cement a dramatic change in the ways of Congress, the top Republican in the Senate on Monday fell into line behind demands by House leaders ...
As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was announcing his change of position on the Senate floor, a group of protesters including Bogota’s Steve Lonegan was watching in his office. They’d gone there to press him to support the ban on earmarks after a rally outside the ...
A man who refused a body scan and pat-down search at a San Diego airport has become an Internet sensation in the debate weighing fliers' security versus their privacy.
Backers of a bill to provide as much as $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust are making a last-minute push in the Senate.
WASHINGTON — President Obama left Asia with a greater foothold in the emerging nations that could help shape the American economy for years. But his failure to deliver on his own high ...
Two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America, who left Europe with little expectation of return.
Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his ethics trial Monday after a House ethics panel denied his request to delay it, and the ethics committee's top lawyer urged lawmakers to push toward a ...
WASHINGTON — Seven weeks ahead of the GOP House takeover, hobbled Democrats and invigorated Republicans return today to a testy tax dispute and a lengthy to-do list for a postelection session of Congress unlikely to achieve any landmark legislation. With change ...
WASHINGTON — Seven weeks ahead of the GOP House takeover, hobbled Democrats and invigorated Republicans return today to a testy tax dispute and a lengthy to-do list for a postelection session of Congress unlikely to achieve any landmark legislation.
With change ...
WASHINGTON — A report chronicling the history of the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit criticizes the government for knowingly allowing some Nazis to settle in the United States after World War II."America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the ...
WASHINGTON — A report chronicling the history of the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit criticizes the government for knowingly allowing some Nazis to settle in the United States after World War II.
"America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the ...
LEBANON, N.H. — For years, Dr. William Weeks' name commanded respect. He was a prominent psychiatrist, a nationally known expert on rural health care, a medical professor at Dartmouth ...
WASHINGTON — Judges who hear Social Security disability cases are facing a growing number of violent threats from claimants angry over being denied benefits or frustrated at lengthy delays in processing claims.There were at least 80 threats to kill or harm ...
WASHINGTON — Judges who hear Social Security disability cases are facing a growing number of violent threats from claimants angry over being denied benefits or frustrated at lengthy delays in processing claims.
There were at least 80 threats to kill or harm ...
The president of a Southern California motorcycle club says three members who were seriously injured in a crash that killed five people are expected to survive.
Working women are equal to men in a way they'll wish they weren't. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big federally funded study found.
A sheriff in central Ohio says a 13-year-old girl who went missing with her mother, brother and a friend is safe and a man has been charged with kidnapping.
The White House and Republican lawmakers set the terms of a looming tax debate Sunday, coalescing around a possible temporary extension of existing income tax rates that would protect ...
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is seeking a federal investigation after a newspaper's report of lead content in some reusable grocery bags.
HOPEWELL, Va. — Researcher Matt Balazik wears his passion for saving the Atlantic sturgeon on his right arm — a tattoo of the ancient fish — and lives it by counting the bottom-feeding giants in the James River.The 30-year-old doctoral student is part sturgeon ...
HOPEWELL, Va. — Researcher Matt Balazik wears his passion for saving the Atlantic sturgeon on his right arm — a tattoo of the ancient fish — and lives it by counting the bottom-feeding giants in the James River.
The 30-year-old doctoral student is part sturgeon ...
PHILADELPHIA — The experts call it "contagion" when a suicide or rash of suicides inspires others to follow in an attempt at martyrdom or solidarity in death.Most people would call ...
PHILADELPHIA — The experts call it "contagion" when a suicide or rash of suicides inspires others to follow in an attempt at martyrdom or solidarity in death.
Most people would call ...
PHOENIX — Police trying to keep protesters from blocking dozens of neo-Nazis marching in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon used tear gas to move the counter-protesters off the street.Police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson says no serious injuries were reported and nobody ...
PHOENIX — Police trying to keep protesters from blocking dozens of neo-Nazis marching in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon used tear gas to move the counter-protesters off the street.
Police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson says no serious injuries were reported and nobody ...
PHOENIX — Arizona voters have approved a measure that will legalize medical marijuana use in the state for people with chronic or debilitating diseases.Final vote tallies showed Saturday that Proposition 203 won by a margin of just 4,341 votes out of more than 1.67 ...
PHOENIX — Arizona voters have approved a measure that will legalize medical marijuana use in the state for people with chronic or debilitating diseases.
Final vote tallies showed Saturday that Proposition 203 won by a margin of just 4,341 votes out of more than 1.67 ...
HOPEWELL, Va. — Researcher Matt Balazik wears his passion for saving the Atlantic sturgeon on his right arm — a tattoo of the ancient fish — and lives it by counting the bottom-feeding ...
President Obama said the nation’s mounting budget deficit calls for additional limits on earmarks "inserted into spending bills by members of Congress without adequate review."Some ...
President Obama said the nation’s mounting budget deficit calls for additional limits on earmarks "inserted into spending bills by members of Congress without adequate review."
Twelve donors tied to one of the nation’s biggest hedge funds contributed more than $150,000 to a political committee in Georgia controlled by Rep. Scott Garrett, the North Jersey Republican ...
WASHINGTON — After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama's top advisers have concluded that the "shellacking" Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their ...
WASHINGTON — Here's what the troubled Potomac River needs to get healthy, according to a report released by a group devoted to protecting it: more forests and farmland to keep out toxic rainwater.But the forests started being stripped long ago, in part to make way for ...
WASHINGTON — Here's what the troubled Potomac River needs to get healthy, according to a report released by a group devoted to protecting it: more forests and farmland to keep out toxic rainwater.
But the forests started being stripped long ago, in part to make way for ...
WASHINGTON — Fresh off big victories on Election Day, Republicans in Congress feel empowered in their fight to extend tax cuts that expire in January, including those for the wealthy.President Obama has said he wants to compromise with Republicans to ensure that tax ...
WASHINGTON — Fresh off big victories on Election Day, Republicans in Congress feel empowered in their fight to extend tax cuts that expire in January, including those for the wealthy.
President Obama has said he wants to compromise with Republicans to ensure that tax ...
HOWARD, Ohio — An unusual amount of blood found in a missing woman's home is evidence of an injury apparently related to her disappearance with her two children and a female friend, a ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Republicans' big election victories in Pennsylvania and on Capitol Hill could be Christmas-come-early for the drilling companies that are rushing to exploit the ...
CHICAGO — The vast number of twisting rivers, canals and backwater channels funneling into the Great Lakes present a daunting challenge for those safeguarding the lakes from dangerous invasive fish, mollusks and algae.Though a federal judge soon will decide whether to ...
CHICAGO — The vast number of twisting rivers, canals and backwater channels funneling into the Great Lakes present a daunting challenge for those safeguarding the lakes from dangerous invasive fish, mollusks and algae.
Though a federal judge soon will decide whether to ...
NEW YORK — Anyone wanting to walk in the shoes of fallen financier Bernard Madoff was in luck Saturday: Thousands of belongings from his penthouse, including his used shoes, went on the ...
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has for years touted the achievements of its health care system, but a new study shows that its health outcomes are about like everybody else's. The VA highlighted the study, published in the journal Medical Care, ...
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has for years touted the achievements of its health care system, but a new study shows that its health outcomes are about like everybody else's.
The VA highlighted the study, published in the journal Medical Care, ...
LOS ANGELES — People who take the acne medication isotretinoin — perhaps best known by the brand-name Accutane — have a slightly higher risk of suicide than people who don't take the medication. However, the excess risk is most likely due to having severe acne, not because ...
PHOENIX — A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona pulled ahead for the first time Friday, with both supporters and opponents saying they believed the proposal that went before voters on Election Day would pass.Proposition 203 was ahead by 4,421 ...
PHOENIX — A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona pulled ahead for the first time Friday, with both supporters and opponents saying they believed the proposal that went before voters on Election Day would pass.
Proposition 203 was ahead by 4,421 ...
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service said Friday it lost $8.5 billion last year despite deep cuts of more than 100,000 jobs and other reductions in recent years.The post office had ...
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service said Friday it lost $8.5 billion last year despite deep cuts of more than 100,000 jobs and other reductions in recent years.
The post office had ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Pentagon to continue preventing openly gay people from serving in the military while a federal appeals court reviews the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy.The court did not comment in denying a request from the Log ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Pentagon to continue preventing openly gay people from serving in the military while a federal appeals court reviews the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy.
The court did not comment in denying a request from the Log ...
Staking his ground in the global fight over the world's major currencies, President Barack Obama on Friday disputed claims that the U.S. was deliberately weakening the dollar while accusing China of manipulating its yuan.
Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients' health: She'll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors' pay to go through.
The court on Friday denied a request from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group, to step into the ongoing federal court review of "don't ask, don't tell." The Obama administration ...
Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips also said David Kernell, who was a 20-year-old economics major when he deduced the answers to security questions and read e-mail in Palin's private account, should get mental health treatment.
Investigators said Friday they believe they have found the remains of a disabled North Carolina girl who was reported missing about a month ago.
The president flew to Japan for the APEC summit without the coveted trade pact with Korea or a united front with other countries against China's currency policy.
WASHINGTON — Two nights after the midterm elections, New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews saw a voice mail on his cellphone from the soon-to-be-former speaker of the House. Andrews had a pretty good hunch what Nancy Pelosi wanted to talk about. So when he called her back ...
WASHINGTON — Two nights after the midterm elections, New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews saw a voice mail on his cellphone from the soon-to-be-former speaker of the House.
Andrews had a pretty good hunch what Nancy Pelosi wanted to talk about. So when he called her back ...
JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign Thursday accused observers for rival Joe Miller of challenging properly cast write-in ballots to drag out the heated Alaska Senate race ...
SAN DIEGO — They can call it a nightmare. A cruise from hell. Even a Spamcation. Whatever they label it, the grueling three-day journey of the crippled Carnival Splendor is ...
SAN DIEGO — They can call it a nightmare. A cruise from hell. Even a Spamcation.
Whatever they label it, the grueling three-day journey of the crippled Carnival Splendor is ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Making healthy choices at the supermarket may get a little easier next year when food makers and retailers start putting easier-to-read nutrition labels on the front of packages, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday during an ...
BOSTON — Marie Evans once recalled she was 9 years old when she first started getting free cigarettes in the Boston housing project where she lived.At first, she traded them for candy, but she said she started smoking them herself at age 13. Four decades later, Evans ...
BOSTON — Marie Evans once recalled she was 9 years old when she first started getting free cigarettes in the Boston housing project where she lived.
At first, she traded them for candy, but she said she started smoking them herself at age 13. Four decades later, Evans ...
Amazon is no longer selling a self-published guide for pedophiles.It wasn't clear whether Amazon.com Inc. had pulled the item, or whether the author withdrew it. Amazon did not immediately return messages Thursday, and the author, Phillip R. Greaves II of Pueblo, ...
Amazon is no longer selling a self-published guide for pedophiles.
It wasn't clear whether Amazon.com Inc. had pulled the item, or whether the author withdrew it. Amazon did not immediately return messages Thursday, and the author, Phillip R. Greaves II of Pueblo, ...
A disabled cruise liner inched into San Diego Bay on Thursday after three nightmarish days adrift on the Pacific, bringing cheers from passengers who described trying to pass the time with ...
"Call of Duty: Black Ops" blasted entertainment records this week by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication that video games have cemented ...
The ship's elevators are not working, and port officials estimated it would take about four hours to get everyone off the ship.
A proposal released by the bipartisan leaders of the commission suggested cuts to Social Security benefits, deep reductions in federal spending and higher taxes for millions of Americans.
The Pentagon and NASA experts have determined that a billowing contrail seen streaking into the skies above Southern California was likely caused by an airliner and not a missile.
When it comes to the health care law Obama signed in March, just 39 percent back the GOP effort to repeal it or scale it back. Fifty-eight percent would rather make even more changes in the ...
Starting Friday, you can buy St. James Brown Ale at Iron Hill Brewery in Lancaster, Pa., and raise a glass of the English ale to the local church that inspired it.The beer is the creation of a professional brewer and a home brewer, both of whom attend St. James ...
Starting Friday, you can buy St. James Brown Ale at Iron Hill Brewery in Lancaster, Pa., and raise a glass of the English ale to the local church that inspired it.
The beer is the creation of a professional brewer and a home brewer, both of whom attend St. James ...
Four Loko, the potent alcoholic brew that's called "blackout in a can," took a hit in New Jersey and two other states Wednesday, with one ordering it off the shelves within a week. Retailers in Washington State have until next Thursday to get rid of millions of ...
Four Loko, the potent alcoholic brew that's called "blackout in a can," took a hit in New Jersey and two other states Wednesday, with one ordering it off the shelves within a week.
Retailers in Washington State have until next Thursday to get rid of millions of ...
WASHINGTON — The leaders of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits Wednesday, proposing reducing annual cost-of-living ...
HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape.The weeks of ...
HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape.
The weeks of ...
JUNEAU, Alaska — Misspellings and poor penmanship took center stage Wednesday in Alaska's contentious U.S. Senate race as teams of election workers began tallying more than 92,500 write-in ...
SAN DIEGO — Two tugboats slowly pulled a disabled cruise ship with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew toward San Diego on Wednesday. The 952-foot Carnival Splendor crept into ...
SAN DIEGO — Two tugboats slowly pulled a disabled cruise ship with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew toward San Diego on Wednesday.
The 952-foot Carnival Splendor crept into ...
Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts.As authorities stitch together a national ...
Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts.
As authorities stitch together a national ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two of ...
Amazon is selling a self-published book defending pedophiles, sparking discussions about the retailer's obligation to vet items before they are sold in its online stores.The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love & Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" by Phillip ...
Amazon is selling a self-published book defending pedophiles, sparking discussions about the retailer's obligation to vet items before they are sold in its online stores.
The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love & Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" by Phillip ...
NASA discovered cracks in Discovery's fuel tank Wednesday, an added problem that will complicate trying to launch the space shuttle on its final voyage this year.
Most Americans harbor doubts that President Barack Obama and resurgent Republicans can work together to solve the nation's problems, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.
Under worldwide pressure, President Barack Obama told global leaders Wednesday the burden is on them as well as the U.S. to fix trade-stifling imbalances and currency disputes that imperil ...
Amazon.com Inc. is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to pedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the Internet and threats to boycott the retailer.
The man accused of abducting Elizabeth Smart was a crude, vulgar, self-serving person who used religion to justify his actions, including her kidnapping and rape, she told jurors on her third ...
The government says the number of uninsured Americans is now nearly 47 million, up about 7 percent from 2006. And a large percentage of people say they have put off health care for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure.
A mail bomb that was intercepted in England last month would have been in Canadian airspace when authorities say it was timed to detonate.
Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that would take up half of each pack of cigarettes sold in the ...
WASHINGTON — Leaders from both parties in Congress vowed Tuesday to spare more than 21 million taxpayers from tax increases when they file their returns next spring by adjusting the alternative minimum tax before year’s end.The tax was first enacted in 1969 to make ...
WASHINGTON — Leaders from both parties in Congress vowed Tuesday to spare more than 21 million taxpayers from tax increases when they file their returns next spring by adjusting the alternative minimum tax before year’s end.
The tax was first enacted in 1969 to make ...
The National Labor Relations Board is challenging a Connecticut company’s dismissal of an employee for criticizing her employer on Facebook in a case that may expand a worker’s rights to use social networking sites.The agency’s regional office in Hartford said the ...
The National Labor Relations Board is challenging a Connecticut company’s dismissal of an employee for criticizing her employer on Facebook in a case that may expand a worker’s rights to use social networking sites.
The agency’s regional office in Hartford said the ...
CHICAGO — The trial of a reputed mob boss known for his wide girth and alleged penchant for violence will offer a peek into the inner workings of Chicago-area organized crime, laid low by prosecutions that sent older mobsters to prison for life.Michael "The Large Guy" ...
CHICAGO — The trial of a reputed mob boss known for his wide girth and alleged penchant for violence will offer a peek into the inner workings of Chicago-area organized crime, laid low by prosecutions that sent older mobsters to prison for life.
Michael "The Large Guy" ...
Republicans plan to use the investigative powers of Congress to go after President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and they're focusing on questions uppermost in the minds of consumers.
Federal authorities say a Connecticut woman was illegally fired from her job as an emergency medical technician after she posted disparaging remarks about her boss on Facebook.
Elizabeth Smart was so terrified of her abductor that on the day police found her, she told them she was someone else.
The Pentagon Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.
A cruise ship stranded offshore with 4,500 passengers and crew must be towed slowly into a Mexican port and will not arrive until at least Wednesday night, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according ...
NEW ORLEANS — Hecklers interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a prominent American Jewish group on Monday, the same day his government said it would move ahead with hundreds of new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem. Five ...
NEW ORLEANS — Hecklers interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a prominent American Jewish group on Monday, the same day his government said it would move ahead with hundreds of new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem.
Five ...
BEIRUT — A 12-year-old chimpanzee was heading to a sanctuary in Brazil on Monday after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo. Omega, who weighs around 132 pounds, has never climbed a tree or seen other ...
BEIRUT — A 12-year-old chimpanzee was heading to a sanctuary in Brazil on Monday after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo.
Omega, who weighs around 132 pounds, has never climbed a tree or seen other ...
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — It began with a brawl outside a house party. A woman hit a man, and the man refused to strike back, saying he wouldn't hit a girl. Instead, he vowed to attack the next male who walked by, even if that person was a random stranger. That's when ...
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — It began with a brawl outside a house party. A woman hit a man, and the man refused to strike back, saying he wouldn't hit a girl. Instead, he vowed to attack the next male who walked by, even if that person was a random stranger.
That's when ...
WASHINGTON — The House Democrats' second-in-command, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, officially announced Monday that he wants to keep that job next year, setting up a showdown with the most senior black congressman in the chamber that all involved had hoped to ...
LANSING, Mich. — An assistant state attorney general accused of harassing the gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan was fired Monday.Andrew Shirvell, 30, went on leave about a month ago after national criticism erupted over a blog he wrote ...
LANSING, Mich. — An assistant state attorney general accused of harassing the gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan was fired Monday.
Andrew Shirvell, 30, went on leave about a month ago after national criticism erupted over a blog he wrote ...
The presidential commission investigating the BP Gulf oil spill challenged claims in Congress that the oil company and others sacrificed safety to cut costs.
All those campaign ads and cash? Just wait until 2012.
The Supreme Court has turned down the first preliminary challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009.
Overwhelming victories in statehouses and governors' races across the country this week have placed the GOP in command of redrawing both congressional and legislative districts to conform with Census results.
The presidential commission investigating the massive Gulf oil spill has found no instance where a decision deliberately sacrificed safety to cut costs.
Republicans in the House may expand the majority they won in last week’s election by picking up seats among nine Democratic-held districts where the results remain too close to call."It’s expected that Republicans will hold on and pick up a total of 63 or 64 seats, ...
Republicans in the House may expand the majority they won in last week’s election by picking up seats among nine Democratic-held districts where the results remain too close to call.
"It’s expected that Republicans will hold on and pick up a total of 63 or 64 seats, ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.In an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS' "60 ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.
In an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS' "60 ...
WASHINGTON — Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwavering opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until ...
Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwavering opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until their 2012 goal: a new president, a "better Senate" and ridding the country of that demonized health care ...
A Chilean miner ran, walked and hobbled his way to the finish line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday, showing the passionate grit that helped him survive more than two months trapped ...
Hampered by heavy election losses at home, President Barack Obama promised from India on Sunday to make "midcourse corrections" to reinvigorate his embattled domestic agenda in the face of a ...
Governor Christie has slammed the door on speculation that he’s a presidential contender for 2012, but appearing on national television this morning he left the door cracked open for a run ...
As Trenton gears up for next year’s fight for the state Legislature, the political party that wins control in 2011 and beyond could be decided before a single vote is cast — by a small group of politicians working the back rooms. With a new decade and a ...
As Trenton gears up for next year’s fight for the state Legislature, the political party that wins control in 2011 and beyond could be decided before a single vote is cast — by a small group of politicians working the back rooms.
With a new decade and a ...
It's time to reclaim that hour of sleep you lost last spring.
Some sites in the blogosphere and media commentators are trumpeting "news" that President Obama's trip to India will cost U.S. taxpayers a huge amount. The reports have no basis in fact, and ...
President Barack Obama hasn't been able to drive down unemployment in America, so he's coming to India in search of U.S. jobs.
The president of the University of Notre Dame sent an e-mail to students, faculty, staff and alumni Friday saying that the school is responsible for a student videographer's death because it failed to protect him.
FBI investigators have a simple message for the shooter who has hit the Pentagon, a Marine museum and two military recruiting stations in the Washington area: Call us.
Family members of the 13 people killed one year ago during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood kneeled, cried and ran their hands across their loved one's names etched in a 6-foot-tall granite memorial unveiled Friday at the Texas Army post.
MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for contributing to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.
Despite widespread complaints about massive losses that will put Democrats in the minority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she will try to stay on as leader of her party in the House.
Discovery's final mission is already running four days late because of technical and weather problems.
Self-proclaimed Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann's bid for a top Republican post in the House received a cool reaction Thursday from Speaker-to-be John Boehner, an early test of how GOP ...
WASHINGTON — Victorious at the polls, congressional Republicans asserted their newfound political strength Thursday, vowing to seek a quick $100 billion in federal spending cuts and force ...
Iowa's rejection of three state Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage underscored the growing electoral vulnerability of state judges as more and more are targeted by special interest groups, legal scholars and jurists said Thursday."It just ...
Iowa's rejection of three state Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage underscored the growing electoral vulnerability of state judges as more and more are targeted by special interest groups, legal scholars and jurists said Thursday.
"It just ...