Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.

Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea’s nuclear...

Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States’ southeast coast.

Droughts. Hurricanes. Floods. Monsoons. Disappearing coastlines. These are just a few of the weather effects we’re currently experiencing and will see more of in the...

I remember about a month ago reading a news article on MSN stating the United States 911 systems were choking with non-emergency calls. I’ve got to be honest, I...

Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it...

Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union...

Question: Why is it that alot of the employees who work at homeless shelters are rude, insensitive and only there to collect a paycheck? Don’t they have any...

Claiming her historic place on the Republican ticket, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama’s experience and promise of change Wednesday...

For some unfathomable reason the “debacle” of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath was somehow blamed on the “non-first responder” FEMA and President George Bush...

When the decision of John McCain about the running mate of his presidential formula was made public, my first impression was that he was compensating for his lack of...

Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose...

The lawyer for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has begun questioning witnesses who potentially could testify against her in a probe of whether she abused her public office by...

President Bush “rarely was the voice of realism” on the Iraq war and “too often failed to lead,” according to a new book by Bob Woodward...

The government of Mexico has voluntarily suspended shipments of meat and processed poultry to the United States after U.S. officials raised concerns about the quality...

Jimmy Wayne was down and out a few years ago. His record label had been bought out, and it looked like his shot at being a country star was over.

A lawyer for former Gov. James McGreevey’s ex-wife said Thursday she will drop a charge that she was duped into marrying him if he agrees to pay her $109,000 a...

The mother of a missing Florida toddler is going free again.

Just how big can a black hole grow? Two astronomers reckon they have worked out the answer: colossal black holes with a mass of up to 50 billion suns could be lurking...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints at the University of Idaho...