Mississippi Democrat Travis Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory in recent months for seats long in Republican...

Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns easily wins in Nebraska’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.

A defense attorney conceded Tuesday that his engineer client took software from the nation’s largest nuclear plant and used it while in Iran, but said he did it...

A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state.

A former FBI and CIA agent was fined Tuesday but won’t be sent to prison or her native Lebanon for faking a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship and improperly...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won most of the delegates in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday.

Democrat Travis Childers wins a U.S. House seat in Mississippi’s deeply Republican 1st Congressional District.

Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur won’t be adding a mirrorball trophy to her collection of prizes.

Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the...

Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in the corruption trial of political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, accused of crimes a prosecutor says involved...

The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s more determined than ever to press ahead with her campaign.

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, under pressure from both parties to resign over sexual harassment by an aide and his own extramarital affair, tried to cut a deal...

Senator Jay Rockefeller wins an easy victory in West Virginia’s Democratic primary.

No government money will be awarded for rebuilding any of the 114 homes leveled by a deadly tornado that tore through one of the nation’s most polluted areas,...

Like the American flag that Francis Scott Key famously wrote about, the one on Barack Obama’s lapel keeps appearing and disappearing.

John McCain on Tuesday cast Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton as latecomers to the environmental battle, saying he would be willing to debate...

House Democrats are proposing a tax surcharge on millionaires to pay for a big increase in education benefits for veterans of the war in Iraq, lawmakers said Tuesday.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won most of the delegates in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday.

James Garner’s publicist says the veteran TV and film star has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a minor stroke at his home last week.